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- September 20, 2017
Mark your calendar and be sure to attend these IUNS ICN sessions with Sight and Life:
Sunday, October 15
8:30 – 10:00
Leveraging Food Systems to Improve Food Systems and Nutrition
FAO & Tufts University
Prof. Anna Lartey – Food systems role in achieving goals of the decade of action for nutrition
Prof. Patrick Webb – Nepal: a case for elucidating effective ways to use food systems for improved nutrition
Dr. Klaus Kraemer – Food systems importance for enhancing micronutrient nutrition
Sunday, October 15
11.00 – 13.00
Cracking the Egg Potential to Reduce Child Stunting and Improve Rural Livelihoods
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
Dr. Chessa Lutter & Dr. Saul Morris – The Lulun Project: results from a randomized controlled trial using eggs to improve linear growth among young children in Ecuador
Dr. Lora Iannotti – Putting our eggs in more than one basket – lessons learned from working with multiple sectors in rural Ghana.
Dr. Grace Marquis – Social marketing as a means to build community engagement in nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions
Carlos Andres Gallegos & Ms. Emily Lloyd – One Acre Fund: Scaling up smallholder farmers’ access to poultry in East Africa
Dr. Klaus Kraemer – Eggciting Innovations: Insights from Smallholder Poultry Models in East Africa and India
Sunday, October 15
14:00 – 18:30
Scaling Up Rice Fortification in Latin America and the Caribbean
WFP & Regional Bureau for LATAM and the Caribbean, nutrition unit
Marc-André Prost – Scaling Up Rice Fortification in Latin America and the Caribbean: translating the evidence base into concrete plans for demand creation and effective programming at country level
Dr. Klaus Kraemer – The launch of the Sight and Life special supplement on Scaling Up Rice Fortification in Latin America and the Caribbean
Dr. Helena Pachón – Evidence generation for decision making and effective policy and program planning
Dr. Reena Das – Costa Rica: a successful regional model for mandatory rice fortification & National Plan for Rice Fortification in the framework of the Nation Plan for the Prevention of Micronutrient Deficiencies
Dr. Sonia Castro – National Plan for rice fortification and its commercialization in Nicaragua
Monday, October 16
8:00 – 10:00
Book Release: The Biology of the First 1,000 Days
Dr. Klaus Kraemer & Crystal D. Karakochuk – Session Co-Chairs and Editors of The Biology of the First 1,000 Days
Dr. Philip James – Epigenetics, nutrition and infant health
Dr. Luz Maria De Regil – Before and beyond the 1,000 days: a role for preconception nutrition
Dr. Julian Lui – Nutritional regulation of the growth plate
Monday, October 16
11:30 – 13:30
Integration to Implementation on Vitamin A Intervention
Micronutrient Forum
Dr. Danial Raiten – Scope of the problem and overview of the controversy; how the I to I approach will be applied
Dr. Sherry Tanumihardjo – Biological evidence for or against high does supplementation
Dr. Ermorn Udomkesmalee – Relative strengths & weaknesses of available interventions /programs strategies to prevent or improve vitamin A status n individuals or populations
MSc. Dora Inés Mazariegos – Country perspective. What are the implications of the current concern/debate on national efforts to prevent vitamin A deficiency in Guatemala?
Dr. Musonda Mofu – Country perspective. What are the implications of the current cancer/debate on national efforts to prevent vitamin A deficiency in Zambia?
Dr. Roland Kupka – What does it all mean and how might we move an agenda forward to address these challenges?
Dr. Klaus Kraemer – What does it all mean and how might we move an agenda forward to address these challenges?