Program in International Nutrition Newsletter
Dear PIN Community,
I hope you are all well and staying safe.
As I take on this new role, first and foremost, I extend my gratitude to Kate Dickin for leading this program for the last 6 years - I have really enjoyed our conversations about PIN with you being down the hall, Kate, and I hope I can continue to engage you in the program even though you will be on the other side of the campus.
With the ongoing pandemic and its major impact on nutrition and health status around the world, its timely to refocus our energy as well as reimagine how the program in international nutrition can serve us all, build synergies across our alumni network, and leverage our collective experience and expertise to stem the loss of major gains made in the last few decades in nutrition along with tackling the epidemic of malnutrition that this pandemic is leaving in its wake.
I will like to share some initial updates and plans for PIN for the upcoming year.
New branding and website - We have started working on the new website and we also have an exciting new logo that you can see in this newsletter, thanks to Elena Cherchi (www.elenacherchi.com). Details on the website will follow and I will also reach out to you for content.
PIN Seminar - We will continue to host the PIN seminars on Thursdays from 12:25 to 1:25 pm US Eastern time and have a mix of external and internal speakers lined up for this Spring semester. Seminar access will be through https://cornell-pin-seminar-spring2021.eventbrite.com and registrations will be required.
In conversation with leaders in Global Nutrition - we are starting a new podcast that is going to feature our seminar speaker in conversation with a PIN trainee. The podcasts are going to be available through all major platforms and will also be transcribed as a blog post on our website.
Newsletter - We will also start sending out a periodic newsletter. A preview of the format of this newsletter is below with a few updates from last Fall. If you have any updates for these, as well as any media that you will like to share, please send me an email to pindirector@cornell.edu.
Please watch this space or follow us on Twitter/LinkedIn for more announcements and additions to the program. Please also feel free to send any suggestions or ideas for us to work on. Any and all feedback is welcome. Many thanks, and I look forward to working together with all of you.
Best wishes,
Saurabh
DNS Faculty/Trainee News Highlights
Professor Emeritus Per Pinstrup-Andersen shares nearly 70 yrs of work on food systems in his memoir, now available online.
ExplainSpeaking: Economics behind India’s rising child malnutrition | Explained News,The Indian Express — indianexpress.com The latest National Family Health Survey data shows that in several parts of India, children born between 2014 and 2019 are more malnourished than the previous generation
Covid crisis is fuelling food price rises for world's poorest Over the last year, Covid-19 has undone the economic, health and food security of millions, pushing as many as 150 million people into extreme poverty. While the health and economic impacts of the pandemic have been devastating, the rise in hunger has been one of its most tangible symptoms.
Refugee children get better health, nutrition via e-vouchers — news.cornell.edu The electronic vouchers are provided by United Nations’ World Food Programme to Rohingya families forcibly displaced into refugee camps.
Indian-American-led research team wins $100,000 NIH prize for phone-based saliva test - The Economic Times — economictimes.indiatimes.com The Cornell researchers' team led by Saurabh Mehta was awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Technology Accelerator Challenge prize that encourages the development of new, non-invasive diagnostic technologies important for global health.
Faculty inform WHO’s COVID-19 and breastfeeding guidelines — news.cornell.edu Cornell researchers are leading a “living systematic review” on the risk of transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) through breast milk intake and breastfeeding.
More DNS news at https://www.human.cornell.edu/dns/news
PIN Seminars
Save the Dates
March 4th - Saskia de Pee, Ph.D., World Food Programme
March 11th - Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas, M.D., Ph.D., World Health Organization
April 8th - Shawn Baker, M.P.H., USAID
April 22nd - Stella Nordhagen, Ph.D., Elisabetta Lambertini, Ph.D., GAIN
May 13th - Andreas Bluethner, Ph.D., Gates Foundation
Other Upcoming Events
International Women's Day Panel — us.cochrane.org
International Women's Day is March 8th! Join Cochrane's International Women's Day 2021 Event featuring PIN trainee, Elizabeth Centeno-Tablante! Each year Cochrane hosts an event in the name of Anne Anderson, a pioneering woman in health evidence synthesis.
Other DNS Seminars are listed at https://www.human.cornell.edu/dns/about/seminars
