The Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University - Issue #27
Dear all,
I hope you are well and had a good summer.
Welcome to a new semester with the Program in International Nutrition. We look forward to celebrating the 60th Anniversary of PIN with a series of events and seminars.
Within the PIN seminar, we will be hosting a new series - Conversations - that will include hosting of former PIN directors, faculty and alumni celebrating PIN's journey so far and looking ahead at the relevance of PIN in the future. These will also then be available as podcasts as part of our ongoing series. We will kick off our Conversations series with Professor Emeritus Mal Nesheim on Thursday September 8, 2022 on Zoom. 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.
We also have a new early career competition - details in updates below. The PIN team is growing - and Nidhi Shrestha, Anna Bennett, and Erica Anderson will be joining me this semester to plan and support all of these activities - welcome and thank you all.
Please find below the updates in and around the Program in International Nutrition.
Best wishes,
Saurabh and the PIN team
PIN Seminars Fall 2022
Conversations with Professor Emeritus Mal Nesheim, Cornell University, September 8, 2022 on Zoom
Other confirmed Fall speakers include:
Jere Haas, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
Jennifer Cashin, Regional Associate Director, Alive & Thrive Southeast Asia
Diana Thomas, Professor, United States Military Academy at West Point
Pattanee Winichagoon, Associate Professor, Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Thailand
Mercy Lung'aho, Research Scientist, International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Catch up on all previous seminars through the PIN channel on Cornell Video On Demand.
Celebrating 60 Years of PIN
A Restrospective Look — www.human.cornell.edu
The early history of international nutrition at Cornell dates back to 1907 with the arrival of its first international teacher, Flora Rose. PIN was officially founded in 1962 and has since become a network to support and connect students, graduates and professionals around the globe.
PIN Podcasts
Catch up on the all the episodes below: — pin.transistor.fm The Program in International Nutrition from Cornell University interviews leaders and rising stars in the field of nutrition and public health.
Other Seminars and Events of Interest
Malnutrition in Clinical Settings: Research Gaps and Opportunities — www.labroots.com
September 12-20, 2022. The overarching goal of this workshop is to address research gaps and opportunities related to malnutrition in clinical settings.
Recent advances in the treatment of Obesity — nutrition.org
Thursday September 15, 2022. Nutrition Rounds: Research to Practice. Pre-registration required.
Cornell, together with CIMMYT, presents advanced wheat improvement course - BGRI - Borlaug Global Rust Initiative — bgri.cornell.edu
Starts September 19, 2022. CIMMYT and Cornell University are offering an innovative online course to empower global scientists with the most advanced training in wheat improvement.
World Food Forum — www.gainhealth.org
October 17-21, 2022. Rome, Italy. To inspire wide-spread discussion and action around this urgent topic, the World Food Forum (WFF) – a youth-led movement and network to transform our agrifood systems.
News and Updates
Are you a researcher or practitioner working in nutrition and global health? Would you be interested in an opportunity to present your work to the alumni, trainees, and faculty of one of the largest training programs in international nutrition? If interested, please send a pitch of no more than 100 words or two slides including the topic and details of what will be covered to pindirector@cornell.edu. Applications from early career scientists (doctoral student, postdoc, junior faculty) are encouraged. Presentations will be virtual and receive an honorarium. Submissions will be reviewed and selected on a rolling basis.
Please also feel free to nominate speakers!
Cornell and Partners Host Evidence Synthesis and Systematic Reviews in Nutrition for Global Policy Making | The Cornell Daily Sun — cornellsun.com Cornell hosts Summer Institute for Systematic Reviews in Nutrition for Global Policy Making alongside Cochrane and the WHO this past summer.
WHO launches appeal to respond to urgent health needs in the greater Horn of Africa — www.who.int The health and lives of people in the greater Horn of Africa are threatened as the region faces an unprecedented food crisis. In order to carry out urgent, life-saving work, WHO is today launching a funding appeal for US$ 123.7 million.
GAIN Interview Cruncher - How climate change threatens nutrition and food security – and what we can do about it? — www.gainhealth.org In the context of a new GAIN series on Climate and Nutrition: Why They Need Each Other’, we bring together a new episode of GAIN’s interview cruncher to hear from two of the world’s leading scientists on the impact of climate change on nutrition and food security.
Ronnie Coffman, a ‘global force against hunger,’ elected professor emeritus | CALS — cals.cornell.edu Ronnie Coffman, a pathbreaking plant breeder and scientific leader who for five decades has confronted issues of famine and food insecurity in some of the poorest and most remote places in the world, will become professor emeritus on August 16.
Recent Publications from the PIN Community
Extreme heat exposure worsens child malnutrition | Cornell Chronicle Extreme heat threatens to reverse progress made in combating early child malnutrition as the planet continues to warm, according to Cornell research focused on five West African nations.
Diet and BMI Correlate with Metabolite Patterns Associated with Aggressive Prostate Cancer
The results indicate associations of intakes of fish and its subtypes, alcohol, and BMI with metabolite patterns that are inversely associated with risk of aggressive prostate cancer.
Supplementation in malnourished pregnant women should not displace natural healthy foods. Objective: To estimate the differential effects of three nutritional supplements on macro- and micronutrient intake of pregnant women beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer program Prospera (CCT-POP).
India’s 1.4 million community health and nutrition workers (CHNWs) serve 158 million beneficiaries under the Integrated Child Development Services programme. We assessed the impact of a data capture, decision support, and job-aid mobile app for the CHNWs on two primary outcomes...
By the Program in International Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University
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