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  1. Adult mortality and nutrition in rural Senegal: evidence of an epidemiologic transition

    Article • Global Health Action, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Cohen Emmanuel

  2. “Love, You Need to Give Your Child Love”: Mothers’ Perceptions of Nurturing Care for Young Children in South Africa

    Article • New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, January 2025, Wiley

    Cohen Emmanuel

  3. Women´s experiences of menopause: A qualitative study among women in Soweto, South Africa

    Article • Global Public Health, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Cohen Emmanuel

  4. Maternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa: A qualitative study in Soweto

    Article • Children & Society, February 2023, Wiley

    Cohen Emmanuel

  5. Genetic loci implicated in meta-analysis of body shape in Africans

    Article • Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, June 2022, Elsevier

    Cohen Emmanuel

  6. Direct and Indirect Determinants of Body Mass Index in Both Major Ethnic Groups Experiencing the Nutritional Transition in Cameroon

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Cohen Emmanuel

  7. Determinants of energy intake in Central African populations experiencing nutrition transition

    Article • British Journal Of Nutrition, August 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Cohen Emmanuel

  8. The good life in rural and urban Senegal: A qualitative and quantitative study

    Article • PLOS One, May 2021, PLOS

    Cohen Emmanuel

  9. Body size preferences for women and adolescent girls living in Africa: a mixed-methods systematic review

    Article • Public Health Nutrition, February 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Cohen Emmanuel

  10. How interdisciplinary research at the crossroad between socio-cultural anthropology, nutritional and physical activity physiology can help addressing the obesity epidemic

    Article • Cahiers de Nutrition et de Diététique, February 2021, Elsevier

    Cohen Emmanuel

  11. Estimation of Body Mass Index from photographs using deep Convolutional Neural Networks

    Article • Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, January 2021, Elsevier

    Cohen Emmanuel

  12. Development and validation of the body shape scale (BOSHAS) for assessing body shape perception in African populations

    Article • BMC Public Health, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cohen Emmanuel

  13. A qualitative study reporting maternal perceptions of the importance of play for healthy growth and development in the first two years of life

    Article • BMC Pediatrics, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cohen Emmanuel

  14. Double-duty solutions for optimising maternal and child nutrition in urban South Africa: a qualitative study

    Article • Public Health Nutrition, August 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Cohen Emmanuel

  15. Maternal perspectives on infant feeding practices in Soweto, South Africa

    Article • Public Health Nutrition, August 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Cindy-Lee Dennis, Cohen Emmanuel

  16. Factors influencing dietary behaviours in urban food environments in Africa: a systematic mapping review

    Article • Public Health Nutrition, May 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Cohen Emmanuel

  17. Body weight perceptions and obesity amongst university employed South African women

    Article • Women & Health, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Cohen Emmanuel

  18. ‘I’d say I’m fat, I’m not obese’: obesity normalisation in urban-poor South Africa

    Article • Public Health Nutrition, March 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Cohen Emmanuel

  19. Relationships Between Maternal Factors and Weight Loss Attempts Among Urban Male and Female Adolescents Living in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Adolescent Health, January 2020, Elsevier

    Cohen Emmanuel

  20. Maternal religion and breastfeeding intention and practice in the US Project Viva cohort

    Article • Birth, December 2019, Wiley

    Cohen Emmanuel

  21. Material and Relational Difficulties: The Impact of the Household Environment on the Emotional Well-Being of Young Black Women Living in Soweto, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Family Issues, November 2019, SAGE Publications

    Cohen Emmanuel

  22. Environmental, Social, and Structural Constraints for Health Behavior: Perceptions of Young Urban Black Women During the Preconception Period—A Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative

    Article • Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, September 2019, Elsevier

    Cohen Emmanuel

  23. Urban young women's preferences for intervention strategies to promote physical and mental health preconception: A Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI)

    Article • Preventive Medicine Reports, June 2019, Elsevier

    Cohen Emmanuel

  24. Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Body Image Disturbances Among South African Mothers and Their Daughters Living in Soweto, Johannesburg

    Article • Family & Community Health, April 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Cohen Emmanuel

  25. Biocultural determinants of overweight and obesity in the context of nutrition transition in Senegal: a holistic anthropological approach

    Article • Journal of Biosocial Science, October 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Cohen Emmanuel

  26. The determinants of overweight/obesity and blood pressure in rural South African women living in the Tshino Nesengani (Mukondeleli) village

    Article • South African Journal of Sports Medicine, August 2018, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Cohen Emmanuel

  27. Large Body Size as a Socially Valued Factor Determining Excess Weight and Obesity in the Context of the Nutritional Transition in Senegal

    Article • Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de Paris, February 2018, OpenEdition

    Cohen Emmanuel

  28. Body mass index and associated lifestyle and eating behaviours of female students at a South African university

    Article • South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Cohen Emmanuel

  29. Examining the relationships between body image, eating attitudes, BMI, and physical activity in rural and urban South African young adult females using structural equation modeling

    Article • PLOS One, November 2017, PLOS

    Cohen Emmanuel

  30. Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa

    Article • CardioVascular Journal of Africa, October 2017, Clinics Cardive Publishing

    Cohen Emmanuel

  31. Nutrition Transition and Biocultural Determinants of Obesity among Cameroonian Migrants in Urban Cameroon and France

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, June 2017, MDPI AG

    Cohen Emmanuel

  32. Drivers of dietary behaviours in women living in urban Africa: a systematic mapping review

    Article • Public Health Nutrition, June 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Stefanie Gissing, Cohen Emmanuel

  33. Breast feeding initiation rate across Western countries: does religion matter? An ecological study

    Article • BMJ Global Health, November 2016, BMJ

    Cohen Emmanuel

  34. Development and validation of two food portion photograph books to assess dietary intake among adults and children in Central Africa

    Article • British Journal Of Nutrition, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Cohen Emmanuel

  35. The relevance of the side-view in body image scales for public health: an example from two African populations

    Article • BMC Public Health, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cohen Emmanuel

  36. Development and Validation of the Body Size Scale for Assessing Body Weight Perception in African Populations

    Article • PLOS One, November 2015, PLOS

    Cohen Emmanuel

  37. Social valorisation of stoutness as a determinant of obesity in the context of nutritional transition in Cameroon: The Bamiléké case

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, November 2013, Elsevier

    Cohen Emmanuel