News from the Program in International Nutrition, Cornell University | Issue #74
We are pleased to share this newsletter with many updates and fruitful collaborations happening across the PIN community. We enjoyed connecting with many of you at ICN in Paris this summer!
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Shibani Ghosh as the newest PIN faculty and for her PIN Seminar this Thursday.
As always, please reach out with content you’d like to see shared in this newsletter and nominations for seminar speakers and topics.
All the best,
Saurabh and the PIN team
Fall 2025 PIN Seminar Series
Note - A one time registration per semester is required to join the PIN Seminar on Zoom. Register here: https://bit.ly/3EdIaX1. Then follow instructions to join you receive by email.
All Fall PIN Seminars will be held on Zoom, Thursdays 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET except where noted*.
October 23, 2025, Shibani Ghosh, PhD Associate Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University Title: “Program and Policy Action to Achieve SDG2 and the Global Nutrition Targets”
*Tuesday, November 25, 2025, Harold Alderman, PhD Research Fellow Emeritus International Food Policy Research Institute Cosponsored by DNS, with introduction by Dr. David Sahn
December 4, 2025, John Hoddinott, PhD H.E. Babcock Professor of Food and Nutrition Economics and Policy Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University
Dr. Antra Ganguly demonstrates the AnemiaPhone technology at the Nourishing South Asia Marketplace, Sri Lanka, July 2025
PIN Director Dr. Saurabh Mehta delivered the keynote address at the Nourishing South Asia | Reducing Anaemia in Adolescent Girls and Women Conference held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in July. The conference brought together national leaders, policymakers, researchers, health experts, and development leaders to shape a shared regional framework and country action plans to address the growing burden of anaemia among women in the region. Dr. Mehta’s talk highlighted the urgent gaps and opportunities in anemia prevention, diagnostics, and treatment. Dr. Julia Finkelstein led a technical session on the biology and underlying drivers of anemia and Dr. Antra Ganguly presented the team’s AnemiaPhone technology at the conference marketplace.
Celebrating our Trainees
OADI Awardeesfrom left to right: Yahir Huertas Salas; Jailyn Loor; Cassaundra Guzman; Andrea Robinson; Nuzhat Mukul; Jada Vail; Emilia Ceniceros; Richlove Nkansah; Joely Ventura Reyes; Christy Torres (photo credit Cornell Chronicle)
2025 Summer Institute trainees, faculty and mentors, Ithaca, NY
The 10th Annual WHO/Cochrane/Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health Summer Institute for Systematic Reviews in Nutrition for Global Policy Making, was hosted in Ithaca, NY June 16th - 20th. Over 30 trainees, faculty and mentors from around the globe participated in this transformative week of hands on teaching, learning and networking.
IUNS-ICN2025 Paris Reunion
PIN alumni (left to right): Gargi Wable, Hope Craig, Nidhi Shrestha, Fiona Coleman, Heyjun Park, Samantha Huey, ICN Paris, August 2025Dr. Saurabh Mehta, PIN Director, ICN Paris, August 2025
The International Congress of Nutrition in Paris this August was a wonderful success, bringing together Cornell PIN trainees, faculty, and alumni who presented their work and reunited at a special PIN gathering. Sessions with PIN faculty included the Symposium Artificial Intelligence for Precision Nutrition - Current Status and Future Directions with Examples from the Nutrition for Precision Health Study and a Symposium in collaboration with World Health Organization colleagues, Innovations in Precision Nutrition and Health - Last Mile Examples. Dr. Samantha Huey gave a talk on Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models to Make Nutrition Information More Accessible.
Job Opportunities
Please send your postings, including any full or part time positions, consultancies and fellowships, to pindirector@cornell.edu.
Joan Klein Jacobs Postdoctoral Fellowand a Postdoctoral Associate in Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Precision Nutrition,Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health, Ithaca, NY; one-year full-time benefits-eligible; these two positions, supported by a generous gift from Joan and Irwin Jacobs, will join the cadre of trainees at the Center including those supported by the NIH T32 AIPrN training program. Apply.
Laboratory Manager, Cornell Human Ecology,Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, supporting Dr. Kimberly O’Brien’s lab, full-time, benefits eligible; one-year term position with the possibility of renewal; fully onsite position that is based in Ithaca, NY. Typical work hours are 8:00AM-4:30PM Monday through Friday. Apply.
Nutrition Community Educator, Cornell University, Bronx, NY, supporting the Nutrition and Health Program team; full-time, benefits eligible, 1-year term appointment with the possibility of renewal; fully onsite position located at 445 East 148th Street, Bronx, NY 10455. Regular business hours are Monday-Friday 9:00am – 4:30pm. Apply.
Moore IG, Ren Y, Griswold S, Van Sant C, Heylen C, Agaba E, Brown R, Mehta S, Srinivasan B, Kayo GD, Mwesigire T, Domini M, Namusalisi J, Lantagne D, Fitzpatrick M, Marshak A, Hebie M, De Groote H, Webb P, Ghosh S. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2025 Aug 7;113(4):888-902. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.24-0825. PMID: 40774242; PMCID: PMC12493142.
