Executive Summary: Research Gaps at the Intersection of Pediatric Neurodevelopment, Nutrition, and Inflammation in Low-Resource Settings

A growing and compelling body of evidence demonstrates that children born into poverty, whether in high-, middle-, or low-income countries, are at heightened risk for compromised health and developmental outcomes throughout the life course. To address these knowledge gaps and identify the next set of research priorities, a global health meeting was held by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) on Feb 11th and 12th, 2015 on the Bethesda, Maryland campus of the US National Institutes of Health. The primary objective of this NICHD Global Health Meeting was to identify research priorities that are key to understanding the interrelationships and impact of nutritional status and inflammation due to specific infections or noncommunicable diseases on child neurodevelopment and brain function from fetal life through adolescence in LRS.