The Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University - Issue #33
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:
Diana Thomas, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematical Sciences
United States Military Academy West Point
October 27, 2022, 11:30AM - 12:30PM on Zoom
Meeting ID: 980 7701 7003 | Passcode: 799951
Other confirmed Fall speakers include:
Mercy Lung'aho, PhD, RN ~ November 3, 2022
Research Scientist
International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria
"Overview and Update on the National Food Consumption & Micronutrient Survey 2021"
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
Catch up on all the Episodes! — pin.transistor.fm
The Program in International Nutrition from Cornell University interviews leaders and rising stars in the field of nutrition and public health. Browse and listen to all of our episodes here.
Other Seminars and Events of Interest
All of Us Research Program | Advisory Panel Meeting — allofus.nih.gov
November 2, 2022, 10:00am ET. Virtual.
Join All of Us Research Program CEO, Josh Denny, M.D., M.S., as he shares program updates and progress towards goals, including participant enrollment, data collection, researcher engagement, and more. This 30-minute session is open to the public to increase awareness and fulfill the program’s commitment to transparency.
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.
Design to Outcomes: Building a Resilient Food System — innovation.nutrition.tufts.edu
Sessions now available to watch online. 2022 Food and Nutrition Innovation Summit hosted by the Food and Nutrition Innovation Institute at the Friedman School, Tufts University.
In the News
Catastrophic hunger levels recorded for the first time in Haiti | World Food Programme — www.wfp.org
Almost half the population are currently facing acute hunger. PORT-AU-PRINCE: An unrelenting series of crises has trapped vulnerable Haitians in a cycle of growing desperation, without access to food, fuel, markets, jobs and public services, bringing the country to a standstill, warn the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Hunger has reached Catastrophic levels, or the highest level, 5 on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, in Cité Soleil, an urban neighborhood in Port-au-Price, Haiti.
WHO highlights high cost of physical inactivity in first-ever global report — www.who.int
Almost 500 million people will develop heart disease, obesity, diabetes or other NCDs attributable to physical inactivity, between 2020 and 2030, costing US $27 billion annually, if governments don’t take urgent action to encourage more physical activity among their populations.
The Global status report on physical activity 2022, published by the World Health Organization, measures the extent to which governments are implementing recommendations to increase physical activity across all ages and abilities.
World Food Forum: Transforming agrifood systems through digital technologies — www.fao.org
The Digitalization of Agrifood Systems event hosted October 24th by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at its Rome headquarters, explored the digital capabilities and opportunities to usher transformational impact for vulnerable populations in bridging the rural divide and empowering youth and women to access information, technology, and markets.
Recent Publications from the PIN Community
Lelijveld N, Benedict RK, Wrottesley SV, Bhutta ZA, Borghi E, Cole TJ, Croft T, Frongillo EA, Hayashi C, Namaste S, Sharma D, Tumilowicz A, Wells JC, Ezzati M, Patton GC, Mates E.
In this Viewpoint we highlight the need to revisit anthropometric indicators across middle childhood and adolescence, a process that will require WHO and UNICEF coordination, the engagement of national implementors and policy makers, and partnership with research communities and donors.
Mejía-Rodríguez F, Quezada-Sánchez AD, Gómez-Humarán IM, García-Feregrino R, García-Guerra A, Fernández-Gaxiola AC, Neufeld LM.
To estimate the differential effects of three nutritional supplements on macro- and micronutrient intake of pregnant women beneficiaries within the conditional cash transfer program Prospera.
Ludwig-Borycz EF, Wilson ML, Colecraft EK, Jones AD.
Women of reproductive age (WRA), especially in sub-Saharan Africa, are vulnerable to micronutrient deficiencies driven largely by poor quality diets. In a pilot-scale randomized trial, we evaluated whether a multisectoral, food value chain intervention improved the diet diversity and the consumption of animal-source foods among WRA in Ghana.
Wang H, Herforth AW, Xi B, Zou Z.
Poor diet is often correlated with body size, and certain dietary risk factors can result in overweight and obesity. We aimed to examine the extent to which the Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) captured food group consumption among children and adolescents in China, and to understand the association of several new indicators of diet quality scores derived from the DQQ with overweight and obesity, using the 2011 wave of the China Health and Nutrition Survey.
Amberntsson A, Bärebring L, Winkvist A, Lissner L, Meltzer HM, Brantsæter AL, Papadopoulou E, Augustin H.
Maternal vitamin D status has been suggested to affect early childhood growth. However, there is a lack of studies investigating the role of maternal vitamin D status on growth trajectories during infancy. By using growth mixture modeling (GMM), maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy can be investigated in relation to different classes of infant growth trajectories.