News from the Program in International Nutrition, Cornell University | Issue #60
As we begin another semester, we are pleased to share this newsletter with updates and activities in and around the field of international nutrition. Apologies to those who received multiple copies.
Please find below our Fall 2024 semester schedule, which kicks off on Thursday, September 12. We hope you can join us for our first seminar with Dr. Pascale Vonaesch from the University of Lausanne.
Please reach out with any suggested speakers or input on the PIN program.
Warmly,
Saurabh and the PIN team
Fall 2024 PIN Seminar Series
All Fall PIN Seminars will be held on Zoom Thursdays, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET
Zoom Link | Passcode 752457
September 12, 2024, Pascale Vonaesch, MSc, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne
Title: “The Gut Microbiota in Childhood Undernutrition”.
Add to calendarSeptember 19, 2024, Ty Beal, PhD, Senior Technical Specialist, Knowledge Leadership, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
Title: “Nutritional Value Score Rates Roods Based on Global Health Priorities”
Add to calendarOctober 17, 2024, Anais Rameau, MD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Weill Cornell Medicine.
Title: TBA
Add to calendarOctober 31, 2024, Daniel Raiten, PhD, FACS, Senior Nutrition Scientist, Office of Nutrition Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: “Understanding the Intersection of Climate change, Food systems, Diet, Nutrition and Health: Implications for Evidence-informed Programs, Policies, and Interventions to Address Diet and Health”
Add to calendarNovember 21, 2024, CHE Public Health and Nutrition Ambassadors, more details TBA.
Title: “The Lindower-Wolitzer DNS Experiential Learning Symposium”
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PIN Podcast
The PIN podcast team interviews leaders and rising stars in the field of international nutrition and global health to discuss their career path, current role and advice from the field. Browse all of our conversations here and tune into our new episodes just dropped with Cornelia Loechl, PhD, Eva Monterrosa, PhD, and Ravinder Mamtani, MD.
News and Other Events of Interest
Global Grand Challenge: The Future
Call for Proposals
The Global Grand Challenge brings together Cornell's world-class strengths—vision, expertise, people, and resources—in a multiyear focus to understand humanity's most urgent challenges and create real-world solutions. We invite thinkers across campus to use their imaginations to reach beyond the immediate, the tangible, and the well-known constraints. For Cornell’s second Global Grand Challenge, the challenge is very literal: it's the future itself. Letters of intent due February 26, 2025. For more information join the Proposal Information Session February 12, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET.
Workshop: Advancing Nutrition Research to Promote Respiratory Health in Adults
September 19-20, 2024, 10am - 4pm, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Virtual.
This workshop will bring together multidisciplinary researchers, including nutritional and dietary experts, pulmonary researchers, and data scientists, to discuss the current state of science regarding nutrition and diet in respiratory health and diseases and to identify critical research gaps, challenges and opportunities. The primary goal of this workshop is to advance nutrition research to promote respiratory health and to aid in the prevention and management of diseases in adults with chronic respiratory conditions. More information and register here.
Workshop: Advancing the Biomedical Science of Resilience: A Discussion of Measures and Metrics
September 24-25, 2024. National Institutes of Health. In-person Rockville, MD, USA and Virtual.
The goal of this workshop is to identify and evaluate measures and metrics necessary to fully capture protective factors that elicit resilience and optimize human health across the lifespan. Participants will include NIH program staff and resilience researchers from academia, industry, and other federal agencies. More information and register here.
2024 Tri–Institutional Research Symposium: Novel Approaches to Advancing Health Equity in Cancer Control
September 23-24, 2024. Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY. In-person and Virtual.
Join our initiative combining the expertise of Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Ithaca, and Cornell Tech, with investigators in health technology, epidemiology, communication, nutrition, public health, health disparities, and Al, to foster cancer control and health equity in NYC and extend our impact globally. Visit the event website for the agenda and to register.
Dale E. Bauman Lecture: Dr. Andrew Alan Bremer, MD, MAS, PhD
Director, Office of Nutrition Research, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health
Title: “Nutrition is Everyone’s Business”
September 30, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:15pm ET. Cornell University. In Person
Cornell Maternal Health Symposium: Preventing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity: Preconception through Pregnancy, the 4th Trimester, and Beyond
October 21-24, 2024. New York, NY and Virtual.
The Cornell Maternal Health Symposium brings together researchers across our Cornell Ithaca, Weill Cornell, and Cornell Tech campuses - from bench to bedside to populations - to improve maternal health across the lifecycle, from preconception, pregnancy, the postpartum period (the "fourth trimester"), and beyond. With keynote address by Elizabeth Howell, MD, MPP, “Racial disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality.” Registration for this two-day event is free for Cornell faculty, trainees and staff. Visit the event website for the full agenda and to register.
Division of Nutritional Sciences Seminars
All DNS Seminars are free and open to the public. All Seminars (except otherwise noted above) will be held in person, Tuesdays, 11:45am - 12:45pm EST, Cornell University, Savage Hall 100. Dr. Christopher Gardner will be held exclusively on Zoom on September 3rd at 11:45am. Dr. Brian Bennett will be held in person on Thursday December 5th at 11:45am.
Job Opportunities
NIAID Emerging Leaders in Data Science Fellowship
This fellowship addresses a critical need at NIAID for expertise in data science and ability to apply those skills to the NIAID mission. It aims to establish a cadre of talented data scientists (i.e., expertise in biomedical informatics, computational biology, epidemiology, computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, statistics, or related fields) with a keen interest in applying their knowledge and skills to advance NIAID’s research mission. This fellowship is managed by NIAID's Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies (ODSET). More information and to apply.
Recent Publications from the PIN Community
Daily oral iron supplementation during pregnancy
Finkelstein JL, Cuthbert A, Weeks J, Venkatramanan S, Larvie DY, De-Regil LM, Garcia-Casal MN. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2024 Aug 15;8(8):CD004736. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004736.pub6. PMID: 39145520; PMCID: PMC11325660
Meat consumption and incident type 2 diabetes: an individual-participant federated meta-analysis of 1·97 million adults with 100 000 incident cases from 31 cohorts in 20 countries
Li C, Bishop TRP, Imamura F, Sharp SJ, Pearce M, Brage S, Ong KK, Ahsan H, Bes-Rastrollo M, Beulens JWJ, den Braver N, Byberg L, Canhada S, Chen Z, Chung HF, Cortés-Valencia A, Djousse L, Drouin-Chartier JP, Du H, Du S, Duncan BB, Gaziano JM, Gordon-Larsen P, Goto A, Haghighatdoost F, Härkänen T, Hashemian M, Hu FB, Ittermann T, Järvinen R, Kakkoura MG, Neelakantan N, Knekt P, Lajous M, Li Y, Magliano DJ, Malekzadeh R, Le Marchand L, Marques-Vidal P, Martinez-Gonzalez MA, Maskarinec G, Mishra GD, Mohammadifard N, O'Donoghue G, O'Gorman D, Popkin B et al. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2024 Sep;12(9):619-630. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(24)00179-7. PMID: 39174161
Diet quality and associations with motivation and ability to consume a healthy diet among adolescents from urban low-income households in Bangladesh
Akter MS, Snoek HM, Rasheed S, Maasen K, Thilsted SH, Feskens EJM, Talsma EF. Appetite. 2024 Sep 1;200:107563. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107563. Epub 2024 Jun 14. PMID: 38880285
Considerations for Correction of Micronutrient Deficiencies Through Supplementation in Pregnant Women and Children Under-5 in Latin America
Fernández-Gaxiola AC, Neufeld LM, García-Guerra A. Food Nutr Bull. 2024 Sep;45(2_suppl):S47-S54. doi: 10.1177/03795721231219824. Epub 2024 Jan 7. PMID: 38186006
Associations between fruit and vegetable intakes and incident depression in middle-aged and older adults from 10 diverse international longitudinal cohorts
Matison AP, Flood VM, Lam BCP, Lipnicki DM, Tucker KL, et al. J Affect Disord. 2024 Aug 15;359:373-381. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.05.096. Epub 2024 May 23. PMID: 38788860
Blending Samples to Increase Accuracy and Precision of 1H NMR Urine Metabolomics
Bay Nord A, Lindqvist H, Rådjursöga M, Winkvist A, Karlsson BG, Malmodin D. Anal Chem. 2024 Aug 13;96(32):13078-13085. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c01532. Epub 2024 Jul 31. PMID: 39084612; PMCID: PMC11325295
Prevalence and Correlates of Double and Triple Burden of Malnutrition Among Children and Adolescents in India: Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey
Ji N, Kumar A, Joe W, Kuriyan R, Sethi V, Finkelstein JL, Mehta S. Journal of Nutrition, 2024, ISSN 0022-3166,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.08.021.