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“We had nothing during the expensive time”
This phrase was used time and time again to describe life in Iraq during the economic embargo of the 1990s. Farmers and their families in the Kurdish north struggled to survive during that time. Those past realities have current implications for the health of their children.
I have spent 10 non-consecutive months in Slemani governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, collecting qualitative and quantitative data from households living in urban and rural communities. Through interviews with over 100 mothers, doctors, market sellers, and farmers, I have studied the relationship between household food insecurity, economic sanctions, and chronic mental and physical health. I collected surveys from 50 randomly sampled households across the governorate. I use data from these surveys to compare the health of children born to mothers before and after the implementation of the United Nations Oil for Food program in 1996.
RESEARCH AGENDA
Economic Sanctions and Food Systems
Further study the impact of economic sanctions on food systems in southern Iraq and Syria through collaborations with local farmers and market sellers.
Maternal Food Insecurity and Infant Feeding
Continue studying the consequences of maternal food insecurity on infant feeding choices and weaning in northern Iraq, southern Iraq, and Syria, especially in the context of conflict and sanctions.
Coping with Diabetes
Further study diabetes among the aging population in Iraq and the ways in which community members are coping with diabetes, using biological and qualitative data.
DOHAD
Continue examining the relationship between fetal exposures to food insecurity and stress and later young adult chronic disease, including high blood pressure, obesity, and poor mental health
PUBLICATIONS
Finch A, Tribble AG. 2021. For Future’s Sake: From Pandemic to Prevention. Preventative Medicine Reports. 21:101271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101271
Tribble, AG. 2018. Comparing Iraqi regional differences on infant feeding through breastfeeding and formula. Kurdistan Journal of Applied Research. 3(2):7-14.
Webb-Girard A, Griffin B, Meter K, Burkhardsmeier B, Girovich BA, Tribble AG, Aime M. 2017. Atlanta’s Local Food Baseline Report. Food Well Alliance.
Hadley C, Mangurenje T, Tribble AG. 2017. Book Review on Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution, James Ferguson. American Journal of Human Biology. 2017;29(4):e23020. doi:10.1002/ajhb.23020.
Tribble AG. Dreams to Nightmares: Food and Health in Communities Displaced by ISIS. Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science Blog.
Tribble AG, Summers P, Chen H, Quandt SA, Arcury TA. 2016. Musculoskeletal pain, depression, and stress among Latino manual laborers in North Carolina. Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health. 71(6):309-316.
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