Jonathan CK Wells

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

I conduct research on pediatric body composition, energy metabolism, nutrition and physical activity, mainly in the area of international public health. My work also uses an evolutionary perspective to improve understanding of these phenomena.

Anthropology Evolutionary Studies Nutrition

Past or current institution affiliations

University College London

Work details

Professor of Anthropology and Pediatric Nutrition

University College London, University of London

Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

August 7, 2024

Where have I got to? Associations of age at marriage with marital household assets in educated and uneducated women in lowland Nepal

Akanksha A. Marphatia, Naomi M. Saville, Dharma S. Manandhar, Mario Cortina-Borja, Jonathan C. K. Wells

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17671 PubMed 39131621

July 11, 2022

Food taboos during pregnancy: meta-analysis on cross cultural differences suggests specific, diet-related pressures on childbirth among agriculturalists

Ornella Maggiulli, Fabrizio Rufo, Sarah E. Johns, Jonathan C.K. Wells

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13633 PubMed 35846875

December 16, 2021

Quantifying the association of natal household wealth with women’s early marriage in Nepal

Akanksha A. Marphatia, Naomi M. Saville, Dharma S. Manandhar, Mario Cortina-Borja, Jonathan C. K. Wells, Alice M. Reid

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12324 PubMed 35003910

May 22, 2020

A within-subject comparison of different relaxation therapies in eliciting physiological and psychological changes in young women

Sarah Dib, Jonathan C.K. Wells, Mary Fewtrell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9217 PubMed 32509467

February 9, 2017

Comparison of 3D laser-based photonic scans and manual anthropometric measurements of body size and shape in a validation study of 123 young Swiss men

Nikola Koepke, Marcel Zwahlen, Jonathan C. Wells, Nicole Bender, Maciej Henneberg, Frank J. Rühli, Kaspar Staub

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2980 PubMed 28289559

March 3, 2015

Body composition in Nepalese children using isotope dilution: the production of ethnic-specific calibration equations and an exploration of methodological issues

Delan Devakumar, Carlos S. Grijalva-Eternod, Sebastian Roberts, Shiva Shankar Chaube, Naomi M. Saville, Dharma S. Manandhar, Anthony Costello, David Osrin, Jonathan C.K. Wells

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.785 PubMed 25780755

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July 21, 2016

Percentile curves for skinfold thickness for Canadian children and youth

Stefan Kuhle, Jillian Ashley-Martin, Bryan Maguire, David C. Hamilton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2247 PubMed 27547554