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September 21, 2023

News from the Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University - Issue #50

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We are pleased to share this newsletter with updates, news and opportunities in and around the field of international nutrition and global health. We continue to encourage PIN alumni, trainees and professionals working in the field to connect with us on Linkedin and to visit our new website pin.nutrition.cornell.edu for information about our program, seminars, podcast, and opportunities to connect and engage. Note the date change for our next seminar: Dr. Francesca Celletti, now happening on September 28th.

Sincerely, Saurabh, Erica, Anna and Nidhi

All seminars will be hosted on Zoom, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET | Passcode: 055648

except for the Special Seminar on 10/3 as noted below

PIN Seminar

Our next seminar has been moved to September 28th, Dr. Francesca Celletti, followed by a joint seminar with DNS, Dr. Sara Bleich, Tuesday October 3rd, beginning at 11:45am. After that we will be taking a couple week break and will reconvene on October 26th with Dr. Omar Dary.

View the full list of upcoming seminars on our website.

Francesca Celletti, MD, PhD

Senior Advisor, Office of the Director, Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO

Title of talk: “The WHO response to the obesity epidemic as a public health emergency”

Note date change Thursday, September 28, 2023

Sara Bleich, PhD start time 11:45am

Professor of Public Health Policy, Harvard Chan School of Public Health

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 - Special Joint Seminar with the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University

Title of talk: “Reflections on federal service and an overview of Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery initiative”

Special Zoom link for this talk only | Meeting ID: 921 0153 1029 | Passcode: 417130

Omar Dary, PhD

Senior Nutrition Advisor, USAID

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Sophie Goudet, PhD

Managing Director, Dakota

Thursday, November 2, 2023


Job Opportunities

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Artificial Intelligence and Precision Nutrition T32 - Center for Precision Nutrition and Health, Cornell University. Apply here.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Maternal and Child Nutrition - Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University. Apply here.

Evidence Methodologist - Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University. Apply here.


Upcoming Conferences and Events

Webinar - Research Consortium & BOND-KIDS: Exploring the nutritional ecology of school-aged children, September 26, 2023, 9:00am ET on Zoom. The “Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development-Knowledge Indicating Dietary Sufficiency” (BOND-KIDS) Project was established in recognition of a lack of a universal set of indicators for measuring the nutrition of school-age children. This webinar, hosted by the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition's "Nutrition Measurement" Community of Practice, will present Phase I results and begin discussions on integrating these findings into Phase II. Register here.

Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference for Nutrition for Resilience, October 16 - 20, 2023, The Hague, Netherlands, In Person and Online. The goal of this hybrid conference is to shape and establish a compelling and evidence-based agenda on the interdependence of nutrition and resilience. ALL plenaries and concurrent sessions, as well as all sponsored symposia will be live streamed, and all posters will be available to view online for registered participants. View the program to get an overview of the sessions available and register here.

American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 72nd Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, October 18 - 22, 2023, In Person. Early rate registration now open until September 21st! View the tentative schedule of events here.


PIN Podcast

The Program in International Nutrition from Cornell University interviews leaders and rising stars in the field of nutrition and public health. Tune in to all of our previous episodes here!


Recent Publications from the PIN Community

Tuberculosis: a different way of doing things

The Lancet. 2023 Sep 16;402(10406):937. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01955-4. PMID: 37716757.

Increasing Production Diversity and Diet Quality: Evidence from Bangladesh

Ahmed A, Coleman F, Ghostlaw J, Hoddinott J, Menon P, Parvin A, Pereira A, Quisumbing A, Roy S, Younus M. (2023, August). "Increasing Production Diversity and Diet Quality: Evidence from Bangladesh." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1–22. DOI: 10.1111/ajae.12427.

Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh

Ahmed A, Coleman F, Hoddinott J, Menon P, Parvin A, Pereira A, Quisumbing A, Roy S. Food Policy. 2023 Jul;118:102484. doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102484. PMID: 37547489; PMCID: PMC10398750.

Diets of Men and Women in Rural Bangladesh Are Equitable but Suboptimal

Coleman FM, Ahmed AU, Quisumbing AR, Roy S, Hoddinott J. Curr Dev Nutr. 2023 Jun 2;7(7):100107. doi: 10.1016/j.cdnut.2023.100107. PMID: 37396059; PMCID: PMC10310464.

Overcoming Barriers Associated with Oral Delivery of Differently Sized Fluorescent Core-Shell Silica Nanoparticles

Erstling JA, Bag N, Gardinier TC, Kohle FFE, DomNwachukwu N, Butler SD, Kao T, Ma K, Turker MZ, Feuer GB, Lee R, Naguib N, Tallman JF, Malarkey HF, Tsaur L, Moore WL, Chapman DV, Aubert T, Mehta S, Cerione RA, Weiss RS, Baird BA, Wiesner UB. Core-Shell Silica Nanoparticles. Adv Mater. 2023 Sep 9:e2305937. doi: 10.1002/adma.202305937. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37689973.

Self-reported engagement in healthy eating behaviors is associated with favorable dietary intake among adults in Puerto Rico

López-Cepero A, Tucker KL, Rodríguez-Orengo JF, Mattei J. Nutr Res. 2023 Aug 4;118:137-145. doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2023.07.011. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37666009.

Success of health cell approach in improving knowledge, attitude and practice related to COVID-19: difference-in-differences analyses of a community-based quasi-experimental trial

Das S, Rasul MG, Khan AR, Fahim SM, Sanin KI, Ahmed T. BMJ Open. 2023 Aug 21;13(8):e067096. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067096. PMID: 37604628; PMCID: PMC10445378.

Availability of national polices, programmes, and survey-based coverage data to track nutrition interventions in South Asia

Neupane S, Jangid M, Scott SP, Kim SS, Murira Z, Heidkamp R, Carducci B, Menon P. Matern Child Nutr. 2023 Aug 17:e13555. doi: 10.1111/mcn.13555. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37592411.

Supplement use in relation to dietary intake in pregnancy: an analysis of the Swedish GraviD cohort

Forsby M, Winkvist A, Bärebring L, Augustin H. Br J Nutr. 2023 Aug 11:1-9. doi: 10.1017/S0007114523001794. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37565530.


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