# Melanie Cowan

**Type:** Researchers  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/researchers/melanie-cowan/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 36,004 |
| Field | Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet |
| h-index | 36 |
| i10-index | 41 |
| Last Known Institution | World Health Organization |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/A5107850118 |
| Works | 65 |

## Researcher papers

- [Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults](https://scholariq.org/papers/worldwide-trends-in-underweight-and-obesity-from-1990-to-2022-a-pooled-analysis/)
- [Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants](https://scholariq.org/papers/height-and-body-mass-index-trajectories-of-school-aged-children-and-adolescents/)
- [Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight](https://scholariq.org/papers/heterogeneous-contributions-of-change-in-population-distribution-of-body-mass/)

## Researcher topics

- [Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet](https://scholariq.org/topics/obesity-physical-activity-diet/)
- [Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology](https://scholariq.org/topics/global-public-health-policies-and-epidemiology/)
- [Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins](https://scholariq.org/topics/diabetes-cardiovascular-risks-and-lipoproteins/)
- [Nutritional Studies and Diet](https://scholariq.org/topics/nutritional-studies-and-diet/)
- [Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies](https://scholariq.org/topics/blood-pressure-and-hypertension-studies/)

## Researcher university

- [World Health Organization](https://scholariq.org/institutions/world-health-organization/)

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Source: ScholarIQ — public research metadata, principally OpenAlex. See https://scholariq.org/sources/ for provenance and https://scholariq.org/methodology/ for what these figures mean.