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State of the art infant fat and lean mass assessment with th Pea Pod TM and child blood pressure measurement.
State of the art infant fat and lean mass assessment with th Pea Pod TM and child blood pressure measurement.

Body Composition Measurement

DENVER test of cognitive and motoric development at the JUCAN body composition clinic.

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Welcome to JUCAN

The Jimma University Clinical and Nutrition Research Center (JUCAN) emerged from a research collaboration between Jimma University and the University of Copenhagen that began in 2008, focusing on nutrition and health. JUCAN has developed a strong global partnership and created a state-of-the-art research facility at Jimma University. The center specializes in body composition, nutritional assessments, infection, and reproductive health. JUCAN is committed to advancing research in nutrition and health to provide valuable insights for policy making.

Mission

  •  Fostering nutrition and clinical research to contribute to the understanding of malnutrition and infectious and chronic diseases
  •  Developing and improving methods and tools for the prevention, treatment, and control of malnutrition infectious and chronic diseases
  • Providing long and short-term training opportunities for young Ethiopian researchers to make them independent investigators.

Vision

JUCAN aspires to be the leading center of excellence in generating scientific evidence in the area of nutrition, reproductive health, infectious and chronic diseases for health policy.

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