February 24, 2023

News from the Program in International Nutrition - Issue # 39

We are pleased to share this issue with updates and news in and around the field of international nutrition and global health. As always, we appreciate your feedback and continued engagement.

Spring Seminar

March 9, 2023, Rahul Rawat, PhD

Senior Program Officer, Nutrition and Global Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

March 23, 2023, Heather Danton, MS

Project Director, USAID Advancing Nutrition “USAID Advancing Nutrition: Highlights from the Agency's Flagship Multi-sectoral Nutrition Project”

March 30, 2023, Helena Pachón, PhD, MPH

Research Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University -“Advocate-Scientist in Food Fortification: Experience & Research”

April 27, 2023, 8:00am EST, R. Hemalatha, MBBS, MD

Director, Indian Council of Medical Research - National Institute of Nutrition

May 11, 2023, Natasha Hochberg, MD, MPH

Director, Translational Medicine -Global Health, Novartis

with Pranay Sinha, MD, Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine

Edinburgh Medal Address

Other Events and Seminars

• Nutrition 2023 returns to Boston, MA, USA, July 22 - 25, 2023

• Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference for Nutrition for Resilience, The Hague, Netherlands, A hybrid event October 16 - 20, 2023

• American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA, October 30 - November 3, 2023

In the News

• Check out the just released NIH Nutrition Research Report 2020-2021

• WHO Joint News Release January 2023: Urgent action needed as acute malnutrition threatens the lives of millions of vulnerable children

• WHO Nutrition News February 2023: Experts call for clampdowns on exploitative formula milk marketing in new Lancet series

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations February 2023: The global food and nutrition security crisis

PIN Podcasts

The Program in International Nutrition from Cornell University interviews leaders and rising stars in the field of nutrition and public health. Listen to all of the Fall 2022 episodes here!

Recent publications from the PIN Community

The hidden costs of layered school-based interventions: Evidence from India

Berry J, Mehta S, Mukherjee P, Rudbeck H, Shastry K. February 14 2023. VoxDev. Available from https://voxdev.org/topic/health-education/hidden-costs-layered-school-based-interventions-evidence-india

Growth and growth trajectory among infants in early life: contributions of food insecurity and water insecurity in rural Zimbabwe

Koyratty N, Ntozini R, Mbuya MN, Jones AD, Schuster RC, Kordas K, Li CS, Tavengwa NV, Majo FD, Humphrey J, Smith LE. BMJ Nutr Prev Health. 2022 Nov 30;5(2):332-343. doi: 10.1136/bmjnph-2022-000470. PMID: 36619329; PMCID: PMC9813639.

Folic acid supplementation and malaria susceptibility and severity among people taking antifolate antimalarial drugs in endemic areas

Crider K, Williams J, Qi YP, Gutman J, Yeung L, Mai C, Finkelstain J, Mehta S, Pons-Duran C, Menéndez C, Moraleda C, Rogers L, Daniels K, Green P. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2022 Feb 1;2(2022):CD014217. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD014217. PMID: 36321557; PMCID: PMC8805585.

A Randomized Trial of Quadruple Fortified Salt for Anemia and Birth Defects Prevention in Southern India: Protocol Design and Methods

Finkelstein JL, Guetterman H, Fothergill A, Johnson CB, Ping Qi Y, Jabbar S, Zhang M, Pfeiffer CM, Rose CE, Young LF, Williams JL, Krisher JT, Ruth C, Choudhury DR, Venkatramanan S, Haas JD, Kuriyan R, Mehta S, Bonam W, Crider KS. Current Dev Nutrition. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2023.100052.

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