News from the Program in International Nutrition, Cornell University | Issue #58
We are pleased to share this newsletter with updates and activities in and around the field of international nutrition and global health. Please join us in person or on zoom as we host Dr. Ravinder Mamtani of Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar on April 25th. Plus, save the date for CPNH Day on campus May 17th as we welcome Dr. Francesco Branca of WHO for the Inaugural CPNH Lectureship. More details and RSVP coming soon! As always, we welcome your continued engagement with our program.
Warmly,
Saurabh and the PIN team
PIN Spring Seminar Series
April 25, 2024, 1:00-2:00pm, Dr. Ravinder Mamtani, MD, MSc, FACPM, FACOEM, ABoIM, FACLM
Professor of Population Health Sciences and Medicine, Vice Dean for Population Health and Lifestyle Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Title: "Institute for Population Health at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar: Overview, Programs, and Emphasis on Lifestyle Medicine"
In Person: Cornell Ithaca Campus MVR 3219
On Zoom | Passcode 752457
CPNH Day and Inaugural Lectureship
May 17, 2024, 12:00pm ET, Dr. Francesco Branca, Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization
In person and broadcast via livestream. Details and RSVP form coming soon.
Events of Interest
Dr. Darcy Freedman, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western University
"Realizing Nutrition Equity: Possibilities, Priorities, and Pitfalls"
April 30, 2024, 11:45am ET, in person 100 Savage Hall, Cornell University. This lecture is open to the Cornell community and the public, free of charge. No registration is required.
As we reach the first anniversary of the WHA resolution, this 90-minute webinar brings together global partners from various disciplines, including birth defects, nutrition, food fortification, and medicine, to share and discuss their global advocacy efforts towards implementation of the resolution. This webinar is free of charge and open to anyone who is interested. It will be the first in the series of two webinars on the topic, co-hosted by the Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention and GAIN.
May 2, 2024, 9:00am - 10:30am ET, Register.
WHO/Cochrane/Cornell Summer Institute for Systematic Reviews in Nutrition for Global Policy Making
The Institute brings together experts from the World Health Organization, Cochrane, and Cornell University to train participants in the development of systematic reviews of nutrition interventions in populations.
The Institute runs for 2 weeks hybrid, with Week 1 July 8-14, 2024 fully online and Week 2 July 29-August 2, 2024 in person, Ithaca, NY. Register.
McGill Summer Institutes: Digital Health
This course will cover topics in digital health and machine learning as they relate to connected Internet-of-things solutions, machine learning solutions, predictive analytics, meta-verse, digital twins, connected diagnostics, and challenges/successes faced in the integration of digital health solutions.
May 29-31, 2024, Hybrid. Course will be live to both the in-person and online participants approximately 9:00am-3:00pm (Montreal time) each day and recorded for registered participants. View course schedule and register.
Recent Publications from the PIN Community
Potential Mechanisms of Precision Nutrition-Based Interventions for Managing Obesity.
Mehta NH, Huey SL, Kuriyan R, Peña-Rosas JP, Finkelstein JL, Kashyap S, Mehta S. Adv Nutr. 2024 Mar;15(3):100186. doi: 10.1016/j.advnut.2024.100186. Epub 2024 Feb 3. PMID: 38316343; PMCID: PMC10914563.
Iman MN, Haslam DE, Liang L, Guo K, Joshipura K, Pérez CM, Clish C, Tucker KL, Manson JE, Bhupathiraju SN, Fukusaki E, Lasky-Su J, Putri SP. Food Chem. 2024 Jul 15;446:138744. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2024.138744. Epub 2024 Feb 16. PMID: 38432131.
Lee Y, McDonald E, Gundogan F, Barry CV, Tallo V, Colt S, Friedman JF. Brain Behav Immun. 2024 May;118:510-520. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2024.02.036. Epub 2024 Mar 1. PMID: 38431237.
LeBlanc KE, Baer-Sinnott S, Lancaster KJ, Campos H, Lau KHK, Tucker KL, Kushi LH, Willett WC. Adv Nutr. 2024 Apr 9:100221. doi: 10.1016/j.advnut.2024.100221. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38604411.