The Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University - Issue #23
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
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 Podcasts
PIN Podcast | PIN 21 - Jennifer Friedman — share.transistor.fm
Dr. Jennifer Friedman joins the PIN Podcast to tell us about her work as Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Director of Lifespan Center for International Health Research (CIHR).
Catch up on all of our episodes here.
PIN #DYK
Other Seminars and Events of Interest
2022 Global Food Policy Report: Climate Change & Food Systems - IFPRI — www.ifpri.org
The 2022 Global Food Policy Report, IFPRI’s flagship report, highlights the urgency of accelerating innovation, reforming policies, resetting market incentives, and increasing financing for sustainable food systems transformation. It sets forth a broad range of policy options for accelerated action by policymakers as well as international forums for policy and investment decision-making.
May 12, 2022, 9:30 - 11:00 AM EST | Register here
School food and nutrition policy and legal frameworks - FAO — fao.zoom.us
The webinar will focus on the importance of these policy and legal frameworks, and present broad recommendations for their development. Technical experts will outline the key concepts while country stakeholders will illustrate how NGS have been incorporated into policies and legislation in their own contexts, showcasing lessons learned as well as the main issues and challenges encountered in the process.
12 May, 2022, 9:00 AM EST | Register here
Rio Conventions Pavilion - Food Day — www.riopavilion.org
Co-organised by WWF, CGIAR, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), FAO, CIFOR-ICRAF, TMG Think Tank, UN Environment Programme, IICA and the One Planet Network, and hosted at the Rio Convention Pavilion, this full day event will encourage stakeholders to include food systems approaches in the implementation of the Rio Conventions on Desertification, Biodiversity and Climate.
May 12, 2022 | For more information, click here.
Accelerating Anemia Action - Micronutrient Forum — micronutrientforum.org
Working with a broad selection of partners and stakeholders, such as governments, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, and philanthropic foundations, WHO is leading the development of a Global Action Plan on the prevention and management of anaemia. WHO and UNICEF are co-leading the establishment a newAlliance for Anaemia Actions, a cross-sector platform driven by community, national and global stakeholders to accelerate action toward reducing the anaemia burden in women and children.
19 May, 2022, 9:00 -10:30 AM EST | Register here
The Mary Frances Picciano Dietary Supplement Research Practicum - NIH — odspracticum.od.nih.gov
The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is offering a three day educational opportunity to provide fundamental knowledge of dietary supplements to faculty, students, and practitioners with a serious interest in this subject.
Held as a virtual meeting, May 23, 24, and 25, 2022 | Register here
Women in Global Health: Exploring Non-Academic Careers with Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei - Johns Hopkins — publichealth.jhu.edu
Register for the next Women in Global Health: Exploring Non-Academic Careers with Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei, CEO of AmCham Singapore.
25 May, 2022, 08:30 AM EST | Register here
News and Updates
2022 World Food Prize Awarded to NASA Climate Scientist — www.worldfoodprize.org Leading climatologist, agronomist and former farmer Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig has been named the 2022 World Food Prize Laureate for her pioneering work in modeling the impact of climate change on food production worldwide. She was recognized for leading the global scientific collaboration that produced the methodology and data used by decision-makers around the world.
USAID Announces the Launch of its Updated Youth in Development Policy | Press Release | U.S. Agency for International Development — www.usaid.gov
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) launched its updated Youth in Development Policy with a vision of a world in which young people have agency, rights, influence, and opportunities to pursue their life goals, and contribute to the development of their communities. The Policy aims to improve youth access, increase youth participation, and strengthen
Recent Publications from the PIN Community
We used a scenario-based feasibility testing approach to assess potential implementation improvements to strengthen service delivery. We conducted in-depth interviews with 31 service providers and 12 policymakers, and 5 focus group discussions with potential beneficiaries.
Importance: Inadequate management of elevated blood pressure (BP) is a significant contributing factor to maternal deaths. Self-monitoring of BP in the general population has been shown to improve the diagnosis and management of hypertension; however, little is known about its use in pregnancy.
Objective: To determine whether self-monitoring of BP in higher-risk pregnancies leads to earlier detection of pregnancy hypertension.
Importance: Inadequate management of elevated blood pressure is a significant contributing factor to maternal deaths. The role of blood pressure self-monitoring in pregnancy in improving clinical outcomes for the pregnant individual and infant is unclear.
Objective: To evaluate the effect of blood pressure self-monitoring, compared with usual care alone, on blood pressure control and other related maternal and infant outcomes, in individuals with pregnancy hypertension.
We used data collected from 4520 children and adolescents aged 6-18 y from 2004 to 2015 in an ongoing open-cohort study, the China Health and Nutrition Survey, to explore the effects of physical activity and sedentary behaviors on the risk of overweight and obesity in Chinese children and adolescents.