The Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University - Issue #25
Dear all,
We hope you are well. Please find below this week’s updates in and around the Program in International Nutrition. Thank you.
Best wishes,
Nidhi and Saurabh
PIN Podcasts
Catch up on all the episodes below: — pin.transistor.fm The Program in International Nutrition from Cornell University interviews leaders and rising stars in the field of nutrition and public health.
Spring 2022 Seminar Series
We had an amazing line-up of speakers in the Spring 2022 PIN Seminar series. Catch up on all previous seminars through the PIN channel on Cornell Video On Demand.
Shweta Khandelwal, PhD, MSc - “Public health nutrition in India: Policy implications and way forward”
Corinna Hawkes, PhD - “Addressing dietary inequalities: what will work? A people-centred, systems-based guide to support the design of efficient and equitable policies”
Rolf Klemm, MPH, DrPH - “Finding the ‘gold’ in Golden Rice: Design considerations and challenges in evaluating the nutritional impact of Golden Rice”
Vani Sethi, PhD - “Developing and testing standardized algorithms for delivering antenatal nutrition services through routine health systems, in India”
María Nieves García-Casal, PhD - “Project for a comprehensive reevaluation of WHO haemoglobin cut-offs used to define anaemia”
Md. Munirul Islam, MBBS, PhD - “Zinc Deficiency: In Search of Meaningful Management Strategies”
Shibani Ghosh, PhD - “Nutrition, Agriculture, Health, Food Systems: Evidence and approaches in addressing maternal and infant nutrition”
Jennifer Friedman, MD, PhD - “Treatment of children and pregnant women for schistosomiasis: using evidence to drive policy change”
Reina Engle-Stone, PhD - “Addressing micronutrient deficiencies in West Africa through fortified bouillon”
PIN #DYK
Other Seminars and Events of Interest
The Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition presents the Analytics & Metrics Community of Practice | LSHTM — www.lshtm.ac.uk
The Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition and its Analytics & Metrics Community of Practice (CoP) is hosting their first virtual seminar, inviting interested researchers, policy makers and practitioners to learn more about existing research studies and evidence in school health and nutrition, hear reflections of high-level decision makers on the use of evidence to influence policy discussions, and to engage in discussions with the speakers and participants.
May 30, 2022, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST | Join here
OPN Forum Session - Changing How We Eat | One Planet network — www.oneplanetnetwork.org
Nature and food systems are inextricably connected. Together they should thrive and rely on the services each provide. However, we are far from this vision. Food systems today destabilize our planet and fail to provide all people with healthy and nutritious diets that stay within planetary boundaries. Sustainable production, consumption, and the fight against pollution are key thematic areas of the Leadership Dialogues at Stockholm+50. For each, sustainable food systems are highlighted as a key arena in which we may drive interventions that benefit human health, planetary health, and livelihoods.
June 1, 2022, 4:30 AM - 5:30 PM EST | Register here
World Food Forum: Transformative Research Challenge — www.world-food-forum.org
💡 The WFF Transformative Research Challenge (TRC) aims to inspire research and innovation in sustainable development to end hunger and transform our agrifood systems.
✍️ Teams of young and young-at-heart researchers are invited to submit a two-page concept note proposing an innovative research idea to help end hunger and transform our agrifood systems focusing on one of “four betters” as well as on the WFF’s theme of the year: “Healthy Diets. Healthy Planet.”
Submit your concept note by 6 June, 2022 | Apply here
7th Annual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week - Global Nutrition Report — globalnutritionreport.org
The ANH Academy Week is a series of annual events that bring together the community of researchers, practitioners and policymakers working at the intersection of agriculture, food systems, nutrition and health. The objective of the ANH Academy Week is to foster knowledge exchange, innovation and learning around interdisciplinary ANH research.
June 20 - 30 | Register here
Knowledge Translation Awards | Cochrane Hong Kong — hongkong.cochrane.org
- Open to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
- All works will be judged by a panel of clinicians and local and international evidence-based specialists anonymously to ensure unbiased and fair adjudication.
Call for entries: from 30 May 2022 till 31 July 2022
News and Updates
Child alert: Severe wasting | UNICEF — www.unicef.org
Severe wasting is the most lethal form of undernutrition, and one of the top threats to child survival. Around 1 in 5 deaths among children under 5 are attributed to severe wasting, which is caused by a lack of nutritious food and repeated bouts of diseases such as diarrhoea, measles and malaria, which in turn compromise a child’s immunity.
JOINT STATEMENT: G7 Presidency, World Bank Group Establish Global Alliance for Food Security to Catalyze Response to Food Crisis — www.worldbank.org WASHINGTON/BERLIN, 19 May 2022—The Global Alliance for Food Security (GAFS), jointly convened by the Group of Seven (G7) Presidency and the World Bank Group to catalyze an immediate and concerted response to the unfolding global hunger crisis, was launched at the G7 Development Ministers meeting today in Berlin, Germany.
Recent Publications from the PIN Community
This scoping review assessed how studies of food systems for healthy diets have addressed the role of vegetables in low- and middle-income countries. We apply the PRISMA guidelines for scoping reviews to narratively map the literature to an accepted food systems framework and identify research gaps.
Design Factors for Food Supplementation and Nutrition Education Interventions That Limit Conclusions about Effectiveness for Wasting Prevention: A Scoping Review of Peer-Reviewed Literature - PubMed We conducted a scoping review to characterize the evidence base for the effectiveness of food supplementation (FS), nutrition education (NE), or FS/NE interventions to prevent wasting among children aged 6 to 59 mo. We aimed to identify gaps in peer-reviewed literature and to develop recommendations …
HCES data are increasingly being used to assess diets across populations. More research is needed to inform the development of a framework to guide the use of and qualified interpretation of dietary assessments based on these data.
Strategies and interventions for healthy adolescent growth, nutrition, and development - PubMed Adolescence is a pivotal point in the life course, characterised by transformative physical, cognitive, and emotional growth, an openness to change, and a drive to reshape the social environment. It offers unique opportunities to adopt changes in diet and physical activity that can persist into late …
Provision of folic acid for reducing arsenic toxicity in arsenic-exposed children and adults - PubMed There is moderate-certainty evidence that FA supplements may benefit blood arsenic concentration, urinary arsenic methylation profiles, and plasma homocysteine concentration versus placebo. There is low-certainty evidence that FA supplements plus other nutrients may benefit blood arsenic and plasma …