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November 16, 2022

The Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University - Issue #36

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Dear all,

We hope you are all well. Please find below this week’s updates in and around the Program in International Nutrition. Thank you.

Best wishes,

Saurabh and the PIN Team


Fall PIN Seminar

Join us this week for our final seminar of the semester:

“Effective Interventions to Improve Breastfeeding Practices: Learning from the East Asia Pacific Region”

Jennifer Cashin, MPH

Regional Associate Director for Programs

Alive and Thrive East Asia Pacific

November 17, 2022, 11:30AM - 12:30AM EST on Zoom

Meeting ID: 929 6822 5578 | Passcode: 038687

Thank you to all of our Fall PIN Seminar Speakers!

PIN Podcast

Catch our New Interview! — pin.transistor.fm

Dr. Mercy Gloria Lung’aho joins the PIN Podcast to tell us about her work as Research Scientist at International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria. 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 our episodes here!

Other Seminars and Events of Interest

Division of Nutritional Sciences | Cornell College of Human Ecology — www.human.cornell.edu

November 22, 2022, 11:30 AM EST. Virtual

"Role of epigenetic variability at metastable epialleles for the risk to develop diseases like obesity" Peter Kühnen, PH.D, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

COP27 Health Pavilion — www.who.int

WHO in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and partners is hosting the Health Pavilion at the COP27 UN Climate Conference, taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from November 6-18, 2022. Check out all of the COP27 WHO Health and Science briefs here, including the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture.

In the News

Healthy 2022 World Cup — www.who.int

WHO and the State of Qatar have teamed up with FIFA on the Healthy 2022 World Cup project. An objective of the project is to promote and protect healthy food and healthy food environments by focusing on healthy diets in and around sports stadia involved in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ and hundreds of schools; and at community level, by developing, implementing, monitoring and enforcing comprehensive policy for healthy, safe and sustainable food. 

WHO Nutrition and Food Safety News — www.who.int

The present issue of the quarterly NFS newsletter features the “summer cocktail” of WHO activities in the following key areas: Covid-19 and nutrition, Food Security, Food Procurement, Food Safety, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition, Breastfeeding and Formula Milk marketing, Salt iodization and Sodium intake reduction, Microplastics, and the Transformation of Food Systems.

Publications from the PIN Community

Precision Nutrition for Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Hype or Hope? - Sight and Life Special Report — sightandlife.org

In the past decade, significant technological advances have increasingly made a case against the use of a one-size-fits-all approach in public health nutrition. Instead, new concepts, including Precision Nutrition (PN), have surfaced in high-income countries with considerable potential to transform current public health nutrition interventions and improve nutritional outcomes. But where do low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) fit in the picture?

This Sight and Life Special Report is a first attempt to bring awareness to this issue.

Point-of-Need Diagnostics Across the Nutrition Value Chain

Saurabh Mehta, Balaji Srinivasan, David Erickson

Point-of-need (PON) diagnostics (Dx) are field-friendly diagnostic testing tools that can be used by anyone, anywhere. These PON Dx are a critical component of a PN technology that can be implemented across the food value chain from farm to fork to optimize food quality, safety and health. In the following article you will learn about the potential of PON Dx for nutrient quality assessment, food safety testing as well as evaluating nutrition status.

Preventive small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements reduce severe wasting and severe stunting among young children: an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Dewey KG, Arnold CD, Wessells KR, Prado EL, Abbeddou S, Adu-Afarwuah S, Ali H, Arnold BF, Ashorn P, Ashorn U, Ashraf S, Becquey E, Brown KH, Christian P, Colford JM, Dulience SJL, Fernald LCH, Galasso E, Hallamaa L, Hess SY, Humphrey JH, Huybregts L, Iannottie LL, Jannat K, Lartey A, Port AL, Leroy JL et al.

Meta-analyses show that small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) reduce child wasting and stunting. There is little information regarding effects on severe wasting or stunting.

Strengthening causal inference from randomised controlled trials of complex interventions

Leroy JL, Frongillo EA, Kase BE, Alonso S, Chen M, Dohoo I, Huybregts L, Kadiyala S, Saville NM.

Researchers conducting randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of complex interventions face design and analytical challenges that are not fully addressed in existing guidelines. The key challenge is how to manage the multiplicity of outcomes required for the trial while minimising false positive and false negative findings. To address this challenge, we formulate three principles to conduct RCTs.

Disruptions, restorations and adaptations to health and nutrition service delivery in multiple states across India over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: An observational study

Avula R, Nguyen PH, Ashok S, Bajaj S, Kachwaha S, Pant A, Walia M, Singh A, Paul A, Singh A, Kulkarni B, Singhania D, Escobar-Alegria J,  et al.

Modeling studies estimated severe impacts of potential service delivery disruptions due to COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child nutrition outcomes. We studied disruptions and restorations, challenges and adaptations in health and nutrition service delivery by frontline workers in India during COVID-19 in 2020.

Process of developing models of maternal nutrition interventions integrated into antenatal care services in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and India

Sanghvi T, Nguyen PH, Ghosh S, Zafimanjaka M, Walissa T, Karama R, Mahmud Z, Tharaney M, Escobar-Alegria J, Dhuse EL, Kim SS. 

This paper elucidates how we used information and data to contextualize a package of globally recommended maternal nutrition interventions (micronutrient supplementation, weight gain monitoring, dietary counselling and counselling on breastfeeding) and describes four country-specific health service delivery models. 

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