Blog – nutriverse

Our community is our greatest asset, diversity our greatest strength

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A community of practice connecting nutrition data analysts, researchers, and practitioners to learn together and strengthen the real-world impact of nutrition data.

24 February 2026

Ernest Guevarra

Meet nutriverse’s Executive Director

Announcing Abdoul-Aziz Goza as first nutriverse Executive Director

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We’re excited to announce that Abdoul-Aziz Goza is now nutriverse’s Executive Director. One of the three original stalwarts of nutriverse when it started in 2018, Aziz is a nutrition and statistics specialist with over 15 years of experience supporting large-scale child nutrition data systems across Africa and Asia. A former UNICEF Emergency Health and Nutrition Specialist in Niger, he brings deep expertise in various nutrition surveys including SMART and SQUEAC/SLEAC surveys, and advanced statistical analysis.

21 February 2026

Ernest Guevarra

Welcome to nutriverse

nutriverse is an open source project, a collective, and a community of practice

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We are a community of data analysts, researchers, and practitioners engaged in various nutrition topics and issues. Members of the community support each other through the development of robust and performant R packages as tools for their various tasks, open and accessible technical guidance, and impactful peer-to-peer learning.

13 February 2026

Ernest Guevarra

nutriverse is now fiscally-hosted by the Open Source Collective

nutriverse joins nearly 3000 other open source projects ranging from massive pillars of the internet to niche community tools

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The Open Source Collective is a non-profit fiscal host that provides essential financial and legal infrastructure for thousands of open source projects. Functioning as an interface between coding communities and the business world, it handles complex accounting and administrative tasks so that creators can focus on their software.

05 February 2026

Ernest Guevarra

sleacr now on CRAN

Simplified Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SLEAC) Tools

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Simplified Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Evaluation of Access and Coverage or SLEAC, is a low resource method used regularly for monitoring, planning and importantly, timely improvement to programme quality, both for agency and Ministry of Health (MoH) led programmes. This package provides functions for use in conducting a SLEAC assessment.

03 February 2026

Ernest Guevarra