Changing sex differences in under-nutrition of African children:

Michel Garenne [1-3] 3 Susan Thurstans [4] 4 André Briend [5,6] 5 Carmel Dolan [7] 6 Tanya Khara [8] 7 Mark Myatt [9] 8 Andrew Seal [10] 9 Jonathan C. Wells [10] 10 Authors affiliations: 11 12 1) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMI Résiliences, Bondy, France 13 2) MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public 14 Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South 15 Africa 16 3) Senior Fellow, FERDI, Université d’Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France 17 4) Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 18 London, UK 19 5) School of Medicine, Centre for Child Health Research, Tampere University, Tampere, 20 Finland, 21 6) Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 22 Denmark 23 7) Nutrition for Development (N4D) 24 8) Emergency Nutrition Network, Oxford, United Kingdom 25 9) Brixton Health, Llwyngwril, Gwynedd, Wales. United Kingdom 26 10) Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department, UCL Great Ormond 27 Street, Institute for Child Health, London, UK 28 29