News from the Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University - Issue #48
Welcome fall! We would like to extend a special thank you to all of our spring PIN Seminar speakers and to all who joined in to the conversations during the 2022-23 academic year. We are excited to begin a new year and to share this newsletter with updates, news and opportunities in and around the field of international nutrition and global health. Check out our newly launched PIN website pin.nutrition.cornell.edu which we hope will facilitate even more engagement and conversations between our PIN Alumni around the world. Dr. Tahmeed Ahmed will be kicking off the PIN Seminar co-sponsored by MCN and CPNH this Thursday — we hope you can join us!
We look forward to another year of more great conversations.
Sincerely, Saurabh, Erica, Anna and Nidhi
Spring PIN Seminar Highlights
Thank you to the 2023 Spring PIN Seminar speakers for sharing your time and insights with us! View past Seminars on Cornell Video on Demand.
PIN Seminars
View the full list of upcoming seminars on our new website!!
All webinars will be hosted on Zoom, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET | Passcode: 055648
Dr. Tahmeed Ahmed, MBBS, PhD
Executive Director at iccdr,b, Bangladesh
Thursday September 7, 2023
Co-sponsored by: Maternal Child Nutrition Training Program
Jacquelyn Bedsaul-Fryer, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Francesca Celletti, MD, PhD
Senior Advisor, Office of the Director, World Health Organization
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Calling all Cornell PIN Alumni!
It’s time to reconnect with the Cornell PIN network of nutrition professionals around the world through the newly launched PIN website — pin.nutrition.cornell.edu. Update your profile on our Alumni page and follow PIN on LinkedIn to stay even further informed and connected. Interested in learning more about participating in a future PIN Seminar or Podcast to talk about your work? Please reach out via our website or email pindirector@cornell.edu.
Thank you to Dr. Mal Nesheim for compiling the early history of PIN — we are requesting alumni share significant events and milestones that should be added to this timeline.
Job Opportunities
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Artificial Intelligence and Precision Nutrition T32 - Center for Precision Nutrition and Health, Cornell University. Apply here.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Maternal and Child Nutrition - Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University. Apply here.
Evidence Methodologist - Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University. Apply here.
News and Events
The first United Nations Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Moment (UNFSS+2) took place in Rome, Italy, July 2023, to discuss the current barriers the world faces in meeting the SDG global nutrition targets. The full session recording of Transforming Food Systems for People’s Nutrition and Health available on YouTube.
NUTRITION 2023 was held in Boston in July 2023. Highlights and recordings of the scientific symposia and award lectures now available for a limited time here.
ObesityWeek® Conference is home to the latest developments in evidence-based obesity science and treatments. In-person conference, Dallas, TX, USA, October 14-17, 2023. Registration and housing now live.
Precision Nutrition in Obesity: 16th Annual Congress of the International Society of Nutrigenetics & Nutrigenomics (ISNN), held in person as a satellite immediately before ObesityWeek®, October 13-14, 2023.
Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference for Nutrition for Resilience, October 16 - 20, 2023, The Hague, Netherlands, In Person and Online. The goal of this hybrid conference is to shape and establish a compelling and evidence-based agenda on the interdependence of nutrition and resilience. ALL plenaries and concurrent sessions, as well as all sponsored symposia will be live streamed, and all posters will be available to view online for registered participants. View the program to get an overview of the sessions available and register here.
American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 72nd Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, October 18 - 22, 2023, In Person. Early rate registration now open until September 21st! View the tentative schedule of events here.
PIN Podcast
Check out our newest episode with Penjani Mkambula, MBA to hear about his experiences and insights working as Global Program Lead of Food Fortification at GAIN. The Program in International Nutrition from Cornell University interviews leaders and rising stars in the field of nutrition and public health. Tune in to all of our previous episodes here!