The Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University - Issue #18
Dear all,
We hope you are well. Please find below this week’s updates in and around the Program in International Nutrition. We will be on a one week hiatus next week and be back with the newsletter the week of April 11th. Thank you.
Best wishes,
Nidhi and Saurabh
PIN Podcasts
PIN Podcast | PIN 17 - Vani Sethi — share.transistor.fm
Dr. Vani Sethi joins the PIN Podcast to tell us about her work as Nutrition Specialist at UNICEF India.
Listen to our previous episodes here
PIN Seminars
This week:
“Zinc deficiency: in search of meaningful management strategies”
Md. Munirul Islam, MBBS, PhD,
Scientist, Nutrition and Clinical Services Division and
Senior Consultant Physician, Dhaka Hospital
March 31, 2022, 11:30 AM EST
Save the dates for upcoming Spring 2022 PIN Seminars:
Shibani Ghosh, PhD,
Research Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and
Associate Director, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition, Tufts University
April 14, 2022, 11:30 AM EST
Jennifer Friedman, MD, PhD,
Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and
Director, Lifespan Center for International Health Research (CIHR)
April 21, 2022, 11:30 AM EST
Co-sponsored by Maternal and Child Nutrition Training Grant (MCNTG) and Program in International Nutrition (PIN)
Reina Engle-Stone, PhD,
Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
May 5, 2022, 11:30 AM EST
PIN #DYK
Other Seminars and Events of Interest
Next Gen(D)eration Leadership Initiative — www.nextgenderationleaders.org
In this event, a Manifesto for leading together for a well-nourished world will be launched- ACHIEVING A WELL-NOURISHED WORLD: A MANIFESTO FOR LEADERSHIP. The Manifesto is a call for and a commitment to transforming how we lead and who lead in nutrition and food systems for a well-nourished world
March 30, 2022, 3:00 AM - 4: 00 AM EST (Session 1) | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST (Session 2) | Register here
Circular Food Systems: Towards Human and Planetary Health | CALS — cals.cornell.edu
The need to transform the food system to avoid exceeding the Earth’s biophysical limit is widely recognized. A redesign towards circular food systems is a promising solution to achieve healthy diets from sustainable food systems.
March 30, 2022, 12:25 PM - 1:15 PM EST
Food Safety Community of Practice Webinar — createsend.com
We invite you to join our first webinar to learn first-hand how Codex Alimentarius Commission standards are developed through key examples from leading WHO experts.
April 8, 2022, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
Meeting ID: 933 7766 2340 | Password: kYC+8t5K
Click here to join the webinar
Food for All, Agricultural Transformation and International Organizations | CALS — cals.cornell.edu
The Sustainable Development Goals are off track. The prospects of the SDGs being realized by 2030 are bleak. The rapid pace of consistent decline in poverty and hunger until 2015 had slowed even before COVID-19. Often overlooked is the fact that much of that reduction in poverty and hunger occurred in China and Southeast Asia.
April 13, 2022, 12:25 PM - 1:15 PM EST
Nutrition Graduate Student Organization @Cornell Virtual Spring Speaker Seminar
The Nutrition Graduate Student Organization (NGSO, Cornell) is hosting Dr. Chelsea Singleton of Tulane University for a virtual seminar, titled: “Violence and Nutrition: A Historical Synopsis of Associations and Their Influence on Nutrition Equity.”
March 31, 2022 | 3:00 PM EST
News and Updates
The Biofortification Project Combating Child Malnutrition in India - BORGEN — www.borgenmagazine.com
Needless to say, child malnutrition in India is a significant health issue requiring innovative solutions.
How agrobiodiversity can nourish the planet — www.ifad.org For our people and planet to flourish, we need agrobiodiversity: agricultural systems that enhance our wealth of ecosystems and living beings instead of diminishing it. Our work has long recognized the importance of agrobiodiversity for sustainable food systems, and now we’re taking this commitment even further.
Canada announces support for worldwide efforts to end the global TB epidemic — www.canada.ca Every year, tuberculosis (TB) kills 1.5 million people, despite being both preventable and curable. Although it kills more people than any other infectious disease, except COVID-19, TB is largely neglected because it disproportionally affects the Global South. Last year, more than four million people globally with TB diagnoses were missed by health services, fueling preventable deaths.
Canada’s Minister of International Development sees firsthand the impact of good nutrition in Senegal - Nutrition International — www.nutritionintl.org At a counselling centre in Thiès, a Canadian delegation met with adolescents to learn about the impact of good nutrition on their lives.
Recent Publications from the PIN Community
Review of the Impact Pathways of Biofortified Foods and Food Products
Biofortification is the process of increasing the concentrations and/or bioavailability of micronutrients in staple crops and has the potential to mitigate micronutrient deficiencies globally.
Women of reproductive age (WRA) are at increased risk for anemia and iron deficiency.
Many workers in global supply chains remain nutritionally vulnerable despite the income they earn. The Seeds of Prosperity (SOP) program was implemented in Tamil Nadu and Assam, India, for tea supply chain workers (estate workers, small holder farmers, and farmer workers).
Decisions to Start, Strengthen, and Sustain Food Fortification Programs: An Application of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Evidence to Decision (EtD) Framework in Nigeria This framework is a practical tool to strengthen decision-making processes in fortification programs. Using evidence in a systematic and transparent way for decision making can improve fortification program design, delivery, and ultimately health impacts.
Specificity Matters: Unpacking Impact Pathways of Individual Interventions within Bundled Packages Helps Interpret the Limited Impacts of a Maternal Nutrition Intervention in India Systems-strengthening efforts improved maternal nutrition interventions in ANC, but gaps remained. Taking an intervention-specific perspective to the PIP analysis in this package of services was critical to understand how common and specific barriers influenced overall program impact.
Global variation in the cost of a nutrient-adequate diet by population group: an observational study
Nutrient deficiencies limit human development and could be caused by the high cost of locally available foods needed to meet nutrient requirements.