January 2019

Finalizing new data visualizations

The new, updated GDD site is just the first step in revamping the project’s online presence. Later this year, we’ll be updating our estimates and, accordingly, the way we virtually display them. After all, our goal is to maximize the ways in which people use our data to inform their work, decisions, and even personal habits. 

Establishing agreements for sharing microdata

Currently, our modeled dietary intake estimates are available for request by researchers and other stakeholders on our site. But until recently, we hadn’t prioritized making our microdata – individual-level dietary survey data collected by our corresponding members – available as well.  

Dr. Gert Mensink

Where are you from?

Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Dear Readers,

As the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world around us, it has also made clear that food and nutrition are as critical as ever. 

Meet Jennifer Coates, PhD

My name is Jennifer Coates, and I am writing in my role as Principle Investigator of the International Dietary Data Expansion (INDDEX) Project, which is housed at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, where I am also a faculty member. 

We’re working with EFSA and FAO/WHO GIFT to bring FoodEx2, the most detailed and intricate food classification system in the world, to dietary datasets in GDD.

Soon, you will be able to navigate to the GDD website and browse dietary surveys from around the world using our new Data Availability Map. Bonus: you’ll even be able to download select survey data you would like to use for your own research purposes.

The Next Steps in Our Open Science Project

We’re working to expand the public availability of our dietary data; open-access data is essential for developing equitable and effective strategies to overcome the problems faced by the global nutrition community.

Please introduce yourself!

I’m Matt Smith, a Research Associate working at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Together with my colleagues at Harvard and Tufts, we’ve built the Global Expanded Nutrient Supply (GENuS) dataset, a global estimate of the amounts of macro and micro-nutrients in the diet and the foods that supply them. 

Represented by

Felipe Dizon, an Economist at the World Bank, working in the South Asia region for the Agriculture and Food Global Practice (AFGP).