The Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University - Issue #34
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
Fall PIN Seminars
Join us this week for:
“Overview and Update on the National Food Consumption & Micronutrient Survey 2021”
Mercy Lung'aho, PhD, RN
Research Scientist
International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria
November 3, 2022, 11:30AM - 12:30AM EST on Zoom
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Meeting ID: 920 6503 9271 | Passcode: 877805
Other confirmed Fall speakers include:
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.
PIN Podcast
New Episode! — pin.transistor.fm
Dr. Anthony Wenndt joins the PIN Podcast to tell us about his work as Technical Officer for Reaching the Very Poor at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). 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
Johns Hopkins | International Health Program in Human Nutrition's Weekly Seminar — publichealth.jhu.edu
November 9, 2022, 12pm - 1pm. Online.
“Alternative proteins – the nutritionist perspective” Klaus Kramer, PhD, Managing Director of Sight and Life; Adjunct Professor in the Human Nutrition Program at JHSPH. Join Zoom Seminar here.
The Global Health Network Conference Enabling Health Research in Every Healthcare Setting — uctcmc.eventsair.com
November 24-25, 2022, University of Capetown, South Africa.
This conference aims to bring together health research teams, organisations, health-workers, policy makers and practitioners to explore together how health research can be embedded into every healthcare setting.
The Global Health Network is also celebrating 10 years of mobilising research skills, know-how and methods to foster capable teams that generate new treatment strategies and prevention mechanisms that reduce the burden of disease within communities.
Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Regional Gathering 2022 | Latin America and the Caribbean — scalingupnutrition.org
December 13 - 15, 2022, Panama City, Panama.
The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement is happy to announce its upcoming Regional Gathering for Latin America and the Caribbean! This meeting aims to bring together SUN Government Focal Points and representatives of all stakeholders from civil society, donors, United Nations agencies, private sector partners, academia, parliamentarians, youth and others. Logistical information will be made available shortly - for any questions, email info@scalingupnutrition.org.
In the News
GAIN Congratulates the City Winners of the 2022 Milan Pact Awards — www.gainhealth.org
GAIN proudly congratulates the winning cities of the 2022 Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Awards. GAIN is delighted to recognize the now 250 cities in 74 countries, located across the world, who as signatories are committed to transforming their food systems and advancing access to safe, nutritious foods for all. Read more about GAIN's Food Action Cities Platform.
On World Cities Day 2022, WHO calls on countries to “Act Local to Go Global” — www.who.int
By 2050, nearly 7 out of 10 people globally will live in cities and other urban settings. While cities face many health challenges, the WHO examines how city leaders are uniquely positioned to understand local needs and respond rapidly to changing conditions to safeguard health, including addressing healthy food systems and diets among their urban dwellers. Check out the WHO’s new repository on urban health, a searchable database to learn about WHO-sponsored urban health nutrition resources.
A Woman Who Does Not Admit Defeat | by U.S. Agency for International Development — medium.com
Food Security Stories is a unique collection of stories of USAID's work in addressing nutrition and food security around the world.
New Project Will Reveal True Cost of India’s Food Subsidies — news.cornell.edu
A new project from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) aims to estimate the true cost of India's Public Distribution System by accounting for hidden costs like the health and environmental impacts of the program.
Improving public sector plant breeding for the future of food security — ilci.cornell.edu Public plant breeding programs play a central role in tackling local food security challenges around the world, but how can we be sure that they are operating effectively and optimally at the institutional level? In this blog series, the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement’s (ILCI) institutional capacity team explores how they came to define and measure institutional capacity at National Agricultural Research Institutes (NARIs) — something that has never been done before.
The Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $8 Billion in New Commitments as Part of Call to Action — www.whitehouse.gov
The White House announces a historic package of new actions that business, civic, academic, and philanthropic leaders will take to end hunger and to reduce diet-related disease in the U.S.
Recent Publications from the PIN Community
Comparison of Salt Iodization Requirements in National Standards with Global Guidelines
Greenwald RP, Childs L, Pachón H, Timmer A, Houston R, Codling K.
This analysis compared salt iodization requirements specified in countries' salt standards with WHO 2014 Guidelines on salt fortification.
Rondini KA, Xu W, Chai Y, Pachón H, Kancherla V.
Our findings, using nationally representative DHS data and applying a recommended analytic method to measure policy effectiveness, suggest significant reductions in anemia prevalence in WRA in countries with mandatory grain fortification compared to those without.
Mayer AB, Trenchard L, Rayns F.
Micronutrient malnutrition is widespread and is linked with diets low in fruit and vegetables. However, during the twentieth century, declines in essential minerals in fruits and vegetables were reported in the UK and elsewhere. We conducted an analysis of long-term trends of the mineral content of fruits and vegetables from three editions of the UK's Composition of Foods Tables (1940, 1991 and 2019).
Singh SK, Taillie LS, Gupta A, Bercholz M, Popkin B, Murukutla N.
Policies to require front-of-package labels (FOPLs) on packaged foods may help Indian consumers to better identify foods high in nutrients of concern, including sugar, saturated fat, and sodium, and discourage their consumption, which are outcomes that are critical for preventing rises in diet-related non-communicable disease.
Enhancing health benefits of milled rice: current status and future perspectives
Kasote D, Sreenivasulu N, Acuin C, Regina A.
This article provides a critical review on multiple frontiers of recent interventions to improve nutritional quality of milled rice. The review highlights the benefits of functional ingredients of milled rice to human health and the potential of enhancing them in rice to address the triple burden of malnutrition.