Happy Holidays from the Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University
Dear PIN Community,
We are happy to share the last newsletter for 2021. Please see below for a summary of our year in review, including our seminars, podcast episodes and updates. We have also included details on two new features below - an early history of PIN by Professor Malden Nesheim; and a new video on demand channel with recordings of the PIN seminars this year.
Thank you for joining us this year! We look forward to your continued engagement and input; your suggestions for features, as well as joint programs and exercises are always welcome.
Wishing you and your loved ones a healthy and happy holiday season,
The PIN team (Saurabh, Elizabeth, Sam, Kripa, Cristy, Camille, Erica, Nidhi, Pratiwi, Elena)
2021 in Review
The Early History of International Nutrition at Cornell — www.human.cornell.edu
We are incredibly grateful to Professor Malden C. Nesheim, PhD for sharing this article with us and the PIN family. We really enjoyed reading the rich history of the Division and the Program and are sure that this will be a holiday treat for all of you as well.
November 19, 2021
Welcome to the PIN VoD Channel and Seminar Series — vod.video.cornell.edu
We have also now released the recordings of this year’s seminar on a new PIN Video-on-Demand Channel for all of you to enjoy. No login required!
The 2021 Zoom webinar series included 12 guests, representing the World Food Programme, World Health Organization, USAID, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, National Institute of Nutrition (India), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Nutrition International, FHI Clinical, as well as Cornell University, Duke University, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Minnesota. We featured our alumni Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas, MD, PhD, Purnima Menon, PhD, MSc, Mandana Arabi, MD, PhD, and closed with the dissertation seminar of Jenna Golan, PhD, MS, MS. Thank you to all who presented and attended this series throughout the year!
Please send us an email at PINdirector@cornell.edu to nominate yourself and others for future seminars!
The PIN Podcast 2021 Episodes — pin.transistor.fm
The Program of International Nutrition from Cornell University interviews leaders and rising stars in the field of nutrition and public health. Over this year we were able to have 13 incredible conversations (in English and Spanish) with our webinar guests - and all are at pin.transistor.fm:
Episode 01 - Saskia de Pee, Ph.D., World Food Programme
Episode 02 (Spanish) - Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas, MD, PhD, World Health Organization
Episode 03 - Purnima Menon, PhD, MSc, International Food Policy Research Institute
Episode 04 - Shawn Baker, MPH, USAID
Episode 05 - Shawn Baker, MPH, and Saurabh Mehta, MBBS, MS, ScD
Episode 06 - Stella Nordhagen, PhD,GAIN
Episode 07 - Elisabetta Lambertini, PhD, GAIN
Episode 08 - Andrea Spray, MPH, PhDc, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Episode 09 - Bharati Kulkarni, MBBS, DCH, MPH, PhD, National Institute of Nutrition, India
Episode 10 - Mandana Arabi, MD, PhD, Nutrition International
Episode 11 (Spanish) - Luz Maria De-Regil, DSc, World Health Organization
Episode 12 - Sarah Cusick, PhD, University of Minnesota
Episode 13 - John Hoddinott, MA, PhD, Cornell University
Editathon 2021: Health for All — editathon.github.io
The 2021 Editathon took place from November 16–19! As a pilot event, the Editathon: "Health for All" intended to assess the feasibility, strengths, and weaknesses of conducting a four-day, international, fully virtual Wikipedia Editathon focused on articles related to human nutrition and health. The pilot event relied on volunteers to review, correct, update, translate, and create, a series of preselected articles in both English and Spanish.
In this intensive collaboration, our group of 36 participants and 8 core organizers revised 51 Wikipedia articles and 13 articles in Wikidata. The team of editors created 10 videos and published website code. You can find the total list of edited articles here!
Jobs and opportunities - DNS and others
Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University
The Division of Nutritional Sciences (DNS) at Cornell University invites applications for a cluster hire comprised of two positions in nutrition and global health: this cluster links to initiatives in the Division including external partnerships with the World Health Organization, Cochrane, and others. If you’d like to anonymously suggest candidates or self-nominate for any posting, please do so here.
Recent publications from PIN faculty, trainees, and alumni
Series from the Lancet journals: Adolescent nutrition
Adolescence is a time of rapid changes in both physical growth and development and cognitive and emotional capacities. There rightly has been much emphasis on early childhood nutrition. However, adolescence is an additional important phase of risks and opportunities for healthy nutrition with lifelong and intergenerational consequences. Yet, this age group has been neglected in national and global plans and policies. This Series highlights the effect of nutrition on adolescent growth and development, the role the food environment has on food choices, and which strategies and interventions might lead to healthy adolescent nutrition and growth.
Published: November 29, 2021
Nutrition in adolescent growth and development
Shane A Norris, Edward A Frongillo, Maureen M Black, Yanhui Dong, Caroline Fall, Michelle Lampl, and others
Food choice in transition: adolescent autonomy, agency, and the food environment
Lynnette M Neufeld, Eduardo B Andrade, Ahna Ballonoff Suleiman, Mary Barker, Ty Beal, Lauren S Blum, and others
Strategies and interventions for healthy adolescent growth, nutrition, and development
Dougal Hargreaves, Emily Mates, Purnima Menon, Harold Alderman, Delan Devakumar, Wafai Fawzi, and others
Uriyoán Colón-Ramos, Rafael Monge-Rojas, Jael Goldsmith Weil, Florencia Olivares G, Rebecca Zavala, Mariana Fagundes Grilo, Diana C. Parra, Ana Clara Duran
Published: December 12, 2021
Yashodhara Rana, Gianni Dongo, Caroline Snead, Grace Agi, Oluwagbenga Sadik, Rebecca Heidkamp, Ahmad Abdulwahab
Updated: November 22, 2021
Crowd-out in school-based health interventions: Evidence from India’s midday meals program
James Berry, Saurabh Mehta, Priya Mukherjee, Hannah Ruebeck, Gauri Kartini Shastry
Published: December 5, 2021