The phase 2 project was developed on the findings obtained from the phase 1 research. The study involved data collection from 400 adolescent girls (10-19 years) on their health, social, household, nutrition and blood investigations reports to better understand anaemia dynamics in rural areas of India.

This project was designed in collaboration with the University of Nottingham UK and the Ashwini Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre based at Solapur, Maharashtra.

Dr Anand Ahankari worked as a Primary Investigator for this study and developed publications with support from

1. . Ms Sandhya Rankhamb based at HMF and worked as research project coordinator and chief data collector
2. Dr Andrew Fogarty, Dr Laila Tata based at University of Nottingham, UK.
3. Dr Pratyush Kabra and Dr Sachin Mumbare based at Ashwini Medical College, India.