Dr Inka Barnett
| Post: | Fellow (Institute of Development Studies) |
| Location: | IDS |
| Email: | I.Barnett@sussex.ac.uk |
Biography
Dr Inka Barnett
Research Fellow, Health and Nutrition Cluster
Institute of Development Studies
Library Road
Brighton
BN1 9RE
Tel: +44 (0)1273 605763
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Email: i.barnett@ids.ac.uk |
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KEY EXPERIENCE
Dr Inka Barnett is a nutritionist (LSHTM) and epidemiologist (University of Cambridge) with over 12 years of experience in global health research projects in Asia and Africa. She is specialised on mixed method impact evaluations of health projects and led/co-led several major evaluations including the multi-country ‘External evaluation of DFID/GSMA’s mobile phone technology based nutrition and agriculture advisory services in Africa and South Asia’, the ‘Evaluation of real-time nutrition monitoring in Indonesia (for DFID)’ and the ‘Impact Evaluation of the DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh’. Inka also convenes the Impact Evaluation Module for MA students at IDS. Her key research interests have been the child nutrition and behaviour change interventions.
QUALIFICATIONS
2009 – 2012 PhD in Epidemiology (3-year ESRC-scholarship),
University of Cambridge
2006 – 2007 MSc in Public Health Nutrition,
LSHTM, University of London
2001 – 2004 MSc Nutritional Sciences (with distinction),
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn, Germany
1998 – 2001 BSc Nutritional Sciences (with distinction),
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn, Germany
CAREER
2012 – Present Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, UK
PI for several studies and MA module convenor
CAREER
2007 – 2012 Health Research Officer, Young Lives study, University of Oxford, ODID, UK
2005 Research Consultant, German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Pretoria, South Africa
2003 – 2004 Research Associate, University of Bonn and Direction de Hydraulique, Cotonou, Benin
2002 Nutritionist, International Rescue Committee (IRC), Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
2001 Research Assistant, Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Department of Global Nutrition, Bonn, Germany
2000 Research Assistant, Nutritional Psychology, University of Göttingen, Germany
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, REPORTS AND WORKING PAPERS
2016 Barnett, I.; Yosellina; Sulistyo, S. et al., Mixed-Method Impact Evaluation of a Mobile Phone Application for Nutrition Monitoring in Indonesia, IDS Evidence Report 200, Brighton: IDS.
2015 Barnett, I. ‘Mobile Phones for Nutrition Surveillance: Strong Potential, Little Evidence’ in L. J. Haddad, C. Hawkes, E. Achadi, A. Ahuja, M. Ag Bendech, K. Bhatia, et al. (eds), Global Nutrition Report (GNR), Washington: IFPRI.
2015 Haddad, L.; Cameron, L. and Barnett, I., ‘The double burden of malnutrition in SE Asia and the Pacific: priorities, policies and politics’, Health Policy and Planning 30(3): 1193-200.
2014 Barnett, I. and Edwards, D., Mobile phones for Real-time Nutrition Surveillance: Approaches, Challenges and Opportunities for Data Presentation and Dissemination, IDS Evidence Report 75, Brighton: IDS.
2014 Barnett, I.; Befani, B.; Sulistyo and O'Leary, M., A Mixed-Method Impact Evaluation Design of a Mobile Phone Application for Nutrition Service Delivery in Indonesia, IDS Evidence Report 79, Brighton: IDS.
2014 Barnett, I.; van Sluijs, E.; Ogilvie, D. and Wareham, N.J., ‘Changes in household, transport and recreational physical activity and television viewing time across the transition to retirement: longitudinal evidence from the EPIC-Norfolk cohort’, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 68(8): 747-53.
2014 Barnett, I. and Nisbett, N., An Analysis of Maharashtra’s Decline in Childhood Stunting: Stakeholder Perspectives. In Maharashtra's Child Stunting Declines: What Is Driving Them? Findings of a Multidisciplinary Analysis, Brighton: IDS.
2013 Barnett, I. and Gallegos, J., Using Mobile Phones for Nutrition Surveillance: A Review of Evidence, IDS Evidence Report 1, Brighton: IDS.
2013 Barnett, I., Guell, C. and Ogilvie, D., ‘How do couples influence each other’s physical activity behaviours in retirement? An exploratory qualitative study’, BMC Public Health 13: 1197.
2013 Morrow, V.; Barnett, I. and Vujcich, D. ‘Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Injuries to Adolescents Growing Up in Poverty in Ethiopia, Andhra Pradesh (India), Vietnam and Peru: A Mixed Method Study’, Health Policy and Planning 29.1: 67-75.
2012 Barnett, I.; Guell, C. and Ogilvie, D., ‘The Experience of Physical Activity and the Transition to Retirement: A Systematic Review and Integrative Synthesis of Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence’, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 9.97: 1-10.
2012 Barnett, I.; Sluijs van, E. M. F. and Ogilvie, D., ‘Physical Activity and the Transition to Retirement: A Systematic Review’, American Journal of Preventive Medicine 43.3: 329–336.
2011 Barnett, I.; Ariana, P.; Petrou, S.; Penny, M. E.; Boyden, J.; Dorman, P. and Plugge, E. ‘Cohort Profile: The Young Lives Study’, International Journal of Epidemiology 5.5: 1-8.
2011 Barnett, I.; Guell, C. and Ogilvie, D., ‘Physical Activity and the Transition to Retirement: A Mixed Method Systematic Review’, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 65.A34.