Research Agenda for Acute Malnutrition – Revisited (CORTASAM)
Significant progress has been made against the Council’s original recommendations for the research priority areas first identified in 2018 but gaps still exist. Key recommendations for further research along with brief summaries of the different research areas and are mentioned. More details on the results of the Landscape Review and identified research needs for each individual research priority area are provided in the document.
CORTASAM
In January 2018, the Council of Research & Technical Advice on Acute Malnutrition (CORTASAM) and the No Wasted Lives Coalition published a global Research Agenda for Acute Malnutrition, outlining seven priority research areas to drive the use of evidence to support scale-up and impact for children with wasting globally. This document details recommendations on research priorities, emerging evidence, and outstanding needs to support evidence-based programmes and normative guidance. In addition to supporting the ongoing process of developing comprehensive guidelines on wasting at the World Health Organization (WHO), these recommendations also aim to support and provide complementarity to ongoing efforts for operational alignment through the United Nations (UN) Global Action Plan on Child Wasting and application of evidence for nutrition programming in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.