The Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University - Issue #14
Dear all,
We hope you are well. See below for this week’s updates in and around the Program in International Nutrition.
Please do share any news, content, and suggestions for materials you will like us to include in the newsletter that will make this more useful for you. Thank you.
Best wishes,
Nidhi and Saurabh
PIN Seminars
Up next:
“Addressing dietary inequalities: what will work? A people-centred, systems-based guide to support the design of efficient and equitable policies”
Corinna Hawkes, PhD,
Director, Center for Food Policy, City, University of London
March 3, 2022, 11:30 AM EST
Save the dates for upcoming Spring 2022 PIN Seminars:
Rolf Klemm, MPH, DrPH,
Vice President of Nutrition, Helen Keller International and
Senior Associate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
March 10, 2022, 11:30 AM EST
Vani Sethi, PhD,
Nutrition Specialist (Adolescent and Women’s Nutrition), UNICEF India
March 17, 2022, 11:30 AM EST
María Nieves García-Casal, PhD,
Scientist, World Health Organization (WHO)
March 24, 2022, 11:30 AM EST
Md. Munirul Islam, MBBS, PhD,
Scientist, Nutrition and Clinical Services Division and
Senior Consultant Physician, Dhaka Hospital
March 31, 2022, 11:30 AM EST
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
Reina Engle-Stone, PhD,
Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
May 5, 2022, 11:30 AM EST
PIN Podcasts
We have an exciting line up of podcast episodes coming up for Season 3. Catch up on Seasons 1 and 2 of the PIN podcast here
Other Seminars and Events of Interest
Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development – Knowledge Indicating Dietary Sufficiency Meeting Series — web.cvent.com
BOND-KIDS is a global effort led by the NICHD to describe factors affecting health and nutrition in school-aged children and to guide assessment of nutrition programs. Find out more about this project in a series of four videocasts starting March 4: https://cvent.me/9e1BWA.
Register here
Book Launch | COVID-19 & Global Food Security: 2 Years Later — www.ifpri.org
This e-book builds upon the lessons presented in the earlier volume, COVID-19 & Global Food Security (2020) that documented the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic as of mid-2020, particularly the disruptions to livelihoods and the food and nutrition security of billions of people.
Monday, March 7, 2022 - 9:30 TO 11:00AM EST | Register here
Seminars & Events | Division of Nutritional Sciences | Cornell College of Human Ecology — www.human.cornell.edu
Cathryn Nagler, PhD
Bunning Family Professor
Pritzker School of Moleculer Engineering
The University of Chicago
Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Upcoming Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Training of Trainers Workshop | USAID Advancing Nutrition — www.advancingnutrition.org
The Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities Workshop is a three-day program that guides teams to design, implement, monitor, and manage agriculture-led economic growth activities for improved nutrition outcomes. The training will be held in-person in Arlington, Virginia, USA from May 25-27, 2022. There are no fees to attend but participants will be expected to cover their own lodging and travel costs.
News and Updates
New WHO research urges an end to aggressive formula milk marketing that discourages breastfeeding — www.euro.who.int As societies, we are failing to protect our children from the aggressive marketing of formula milk that can undermine their health, finds the new WHO–UNICEF global report titled “How marketing of formula milk influences our decisions on infant feeding”.
Varying impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on farmer incomes: Evidence from India — www.ifpri.org
Lockdowns and other social distancing measures imposed during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 disrupted agricultural operations around the world, with particular force on smallholders and the poor.
FAO and WFP join forces to boost children’s right to food in schools — www.fao.org
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have launched a project to improve the diet of school-aged children, with support from the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).
Recent Publications from the PIN Community
Biofortification of staple crops with higher levels of micronutrients via traditional breeding methods is a sustainable strategy and can possibly complement fortification and other interventions to target micronutrient deficiencies in low resource settings, particularly among vulnerable populations such as children.
In the Philippines, there is little documentation about the population size of indigenous peoples (IPs) and more so on their health and nutrition status.
Daily consumption of iron‐containing supplements is recommended for all pregnant women but there is no approved global standard indicator for assessing supplementation coverage.
Although the potential impact of food fortification to improve the micronutrient status of populations has been demonstrated beyond a doubt, it is constrained in practice by critical gaps in program design and implementation. These are partly linked to suboptimal decision making.