Publications, presentations, and media
Food Environment Toolbox papers
Downs SM, Staromiejska W, Bakshi N, Sok S, Chhinh N, Thou P, Phorn N, Chen T, Ahmed S, Fox EL, Herforth A. The Food Environment Toolbox: Developing and Piloting a Suite of Tools to Measure Food Environments in Low-and Middle-Income Countries. Current Developments in Nutrition. 2025 May 1;9(5):107444.
Food environment conceptual papers
Downs SM, Ahmed S, Fanzo J, Herforth A. Food environment typology: advancing an expanded definition, framework, and methodological approach for improved characterization of wild, cultivated, and built food environments toward sustainable diets. Foods. 2020 Apr 22;9(4):532.
Bogard JR, Downs S, Casey E, Farrell P, Gupta A, Miachon L, Naughton S, Staromiejska W, Reeve E. Convenience as a dimension of food environments: A systematic scoping review of its definition and measurement. Appetite. 2024 Jan 2:107198.
Zeitler L, Downs S, Powell B. Adapting food environment frameworks to recognize a wild-cultivated continuum. Frontiers in Nutrition. 2024; 11:1343021.
Downs S, Manohar S, Staromiejska W, Keo C, Say S, Chhinh N, Fanzo J, Sok S. Centering context when characterizing food environments: the potential of participatory mapping to inform food environment research. Frontiers in Nutrition. 2024 Feb 21;11:1324102.
Manohar S, Downs S, Shaikh S, Mak S, Sok S, Graham E, Miachon L, Fanzo J. Riverine food environments and food security: a case study of the Mekong River, Cambodia. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2023;101(2):140.
Ahmed S, Downs SM, Yang C, ten Broek N, Ghosh-Jerath S. Rapid Tool Based on a Food Environment Typology Framework for Evaluating Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Food System Resilience. Food Security 2020; 12: 773-778.
Food environment research papers
Downs SM, Warne T, McClung S, Vogliano C, Alexander N, Kennedy G, Ahmed S, Crum J. Piloting Market Food Environment Assessments in LMICs: A feasibility assessment and lessons learned. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 2024;45(4):125-41.
Downs SM, Ahmed S, Warne T, Fanzo J, Loucks K. The global food environment transition based on the socio-demographic index. Global Food Security. 2022 Jun 1;33:100632.
Downs SM, Fox EL, Mutuku V, Muindi Z, Fatima T, Pavlovic I, Husain S, Sabbahi M, Kimenju S, Ahmed S. Food Environments and Their Influence on Food Choices: A Case Study in Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. Nutrients. 2022;14(13):2571.
Merchant EV, Fatima T, Fatima A, Maiyo N, Mutuku V, Keino S, Simon JE, Hoffman DJ, Downs SM. The Influence of Food Environments on Food Security Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Examination of Urban and Rural Difference in Kenya. Nutrients. 2022;14(14):2939.
Downs SM & Demmler K. Food environment interventions targeting children and adolescents: a scoping review. Global Food Security 2020; 27: 100403.
Downs, S.M., Glass, S., Linn, K.K. and Fanzo, J. The interface between consumers and their food environment in Myanmar: an exploratory mixed-methods study. Public Health Nutrition 2019; 22(6): 1075-1088.
Gupta V & Downs S, Ghosh-Jerath S, Lock K, Singh A. Unhealthy fat in street and snack foods in low socioeconomic settings in India: A case study of the food environments of rural villages and an urban slum. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 2016;48(4):269-279.
Olstad DL, Downs S, Raine K, Berry TR, McCargar LJ. Improving children’s nutrition environments: A survey of adoption and implementation of nutrition guidelines in recreational facilities. BMC Public Health 2011;11:423.
Downs S, Arnold A, Marshall D, McCargar LJ, Raine K., Willows ND. Associations among the food environment, diet quality and weight status in Cree children in Québec. Public Health Nutrition 2009;12(9):1504-11.
Videos and conference presentations
ANH Academy Learning Lab 2024. Assessing diverse food environments in low- and middle-income countries with the Food Environment Toolbox
Media
Time of India: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/new-tools-offer-breakthrough-in-tackling-hidden-hunger-in-india/articleshow/121680577.cms