The Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University - Issue #30
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,
Saurabh and the PIN Team
PIN Podcasts
Tune in to our Newest Episode! — pin.transistor.fm
Professor Emeritus Jere Haas joins the PIN Podcast to reflect on the history of International Nutrition and his work at Cornell. Listen to all the podcast episodes here.
Fall PIN Seminars
Other confirmed Fall speakers include:
Anthony J. Wenndt, PhD ~ October 20, 2022
Reaching the Very Poor Programme Services Team, GAIN
Diana Thomas, PhD ~ October 27, 2022
United States Military Academy at West Point
Mercy Lung'aho, PhD ~ November 3, 2022
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Pattanee Winichagoon, PhD ~ November 10, 2022
Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Thailand
Jennifer Cashin, MPH ~ November 17, 2022
Alive & Thrive Southeast Asia
If you have any questions for the speakers in this series, please email them to pindirector@cornell.edu and we would love to include them.
Other Seminars and Events of Interest
Launch event for the public consultation on the draft WHO guideline on carbohydrate intake — www.who.int
October 7, 2022. Virtual. WHO is now inviting Member States and all relevant stakeholders to comment on the draft guideline via an online public consultation. The public consultation will be open from October 7 to November 6, 2022. Register for the webinar and view the draft guideline here.
Nature Conference: Medicine in a Virtual Age — conferences.nature.com
Happening this week October 4-6, Online. This Nature Conference will focus on recent advances in the development, application and implementation of strategies to deliver health care and health education via remote technologies. Register here.
3rd International Conference on Precision Nutrition and Metabolism in Public Health and Medicine
October 15-20, 2022. In person. Chania, Greece. This 4-day meeting brings together experts in nutrition, metabolomics, systems biology, and computer science who otherwise would not interact to advance our fundamental understanding of biological networks, their dynamics, changes with age and interactions with nutrients. Register by October 10th here.
Hot Topics in Nutrition & Cancer: Diet and Breast Cancer Survivorship
Tuesday October 18, 2022, 1:00-2:30pm EDT. Virtual. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Join the ASN Nutrition Rounds, conducted in partnership with the American Institute for Cancer Research. Register here.
BGRI 2022 Technical Workshop | Recorded sessions now available — bgri.cornell.edu
Held in conjunction with the 2nd International Wheat Congress, this virtual workshop featured technical sessions from leading experts at national, regional and global institutions. Presenters from around the globe led in-depth talks and discussions on building resilience in the face of growing challenges to global wheat security. Watch the sessions here.
In the News
Dr. Angela Odoms-Young of Cornell University invited to White House conference as featured expert — news.cornell.edu The conference sought to unite the public and private sectors around a coordinated strategy to drive change in the U.S. to end hunger, and improve nutrition and physical activity.
WHO and partners launch world's most extensive freely accessible AI health worker — www.who.int The World Health Organization, with support from the Qatar Ministry of Health, today launched the A.I.-powered WHO Digital Health Worker, Florence version 2.0, offering an innovative and interactive platform to share a myriad of health topics in seven languages at the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) in Qatar.
Recent Publications from the PIN Community
Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics — www.foodpolitics.com
Available from University of California Press. Marion Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowned food politics expert, public health advocate, and founder of the field of food studies following decades of low expectations.
Preventing Obesity—It Is Time for Multiple Policy Strategies | JAMA Network
Nestle M.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data indicate that nearly three-fourths of adults in the US are overweight, with more than 40% meeting criteria for obesity.
Dietary patterns and fecundability in 2 prospective preconception cohorts
Willis SK, Hatch EE, Laursen ASD, Wesselink AK, Mikkelsen EM, Tucker KL, Rothman KJ, Mumford SL, Wise LA.
In prospective preconception cohort studies from Denmark and North America, higher-quality diets, including diets lower in inflammatory effects, were associated with greater fecundability.
Frongillo EA, Fram MS, Ghattas H, Bernal J, Jamaluddine Z, Kirkpatrick SI, Hammond D, Aurino E, Wolf S, Goudet SM, Nyawo M, Hayashi C.
The CFIES provides a globally applicable, valid, and cross-contextually equivalent measure of the experiences of food insecurity of school-aged children and adolescents, as reported by them.
Akter MS, Talsma EF, Feskens EJM, Thilsted SH, Rasheed S.
The COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected the food environment, particularly food access, price (affordability), purchase, and consumption, especially of fish. Limited food access negatively affected the quantity, variety and quality of fish consumed. An increase in food prices directly affected the …