IUNS-ICN 2025’s Post

Exciting update from the 9th African Nutrition Conference! 🌍🍎 I had the privilege of attending an insightful post-conference workshop led by Tanya Khara , a representative from the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) 🚨 Key takeaways from this enlightening session: 1️⃣ Learned about the Emergency Nutrition Foundation and its crucial work 🏥🆘 2️⃣ Explored the concept of Field Exchange and its importance in sharing real-world nutrition interventions 📊🔄 3️⃣ Gained valuable insights into the process of paper publications in the field of emergency nutrition network 📝🔬 This workshop has broadened my understanding and the vital role of knowledge sharing in our field. Looking forward to applying these learnings in my future work! 💪🌱 #AfricanNutritionConference Africa Nutrition Society #EmergencyNutritionNetwork #FieldExchange #ContinuousLearning #NutritionScience

Really pleased to share that we have launched the dsm-firmenich nutrition research grant program in APAC! This initiative serves to examine the relevance and impact of HMOs and Postbiotics on gut heath in the demographics and diets of people in Asia Pacific. I am looking forward to see what discoveries we can make together. Please reach out if you would like to discuss your idea or if you have further questions. #researchgrant #nutrition #clinicaltrials #dsmfirmenich #hmo #postbiotics #microbiome #health #nutritionresearch

Are you a microbiome or health from the gut scientist 🧑🔬 ? Our nutrition research grant program is now open from March 4 till May 2024. This year’s theme is “health from the gut across the human lifespan” and we are looking for applicants who are interested to elucidate the role of HMOs and postbiotics in the human gut microbiome.

Check Out the Latest Great Debates in Nutrition! The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) has launched the latest in its Great Debates in Nutrition series: “Should a Single Growth Standard Be Used to Judge the Nutritional Status of Children under Age Five Years Globally?” Authors Elaine Borghi and Harshpal Singh Sachdev present both sides of the argument in two separate articles. Then in a third consensus article, the two authors discuss where there are points of agreement and where there are continuing controversies. For example, the authors agree that “the need for target-based advocacy for countries’ engagement and political commitments toward the reduction of child malnutrition across the globe is indisputable.” However, the authors find continuing controversy surrounding “methodological approaches for developing a single growth standard for evaluating nutritional status globally.” Finally, the authors set forth a research agenda to resolve the debate. Too often in nutrition science, major controversies regress to polarized camps in which the like-minded collaborate and agree with each other, but they fail to seek common ground with those from opposing camps. This human tendency can impede a rational examination of evidence and promote politicization of science. In response, AJCN's Great Debates in Nutrition provides a venue for scholarly and collegial discourse on key unsettled topics in nutrition, especially those with direct translation to clinical care and public health. #ChildGrowth #GrowthStandards #GreatDebateNutrition #Malnutrition #ASN https://ow.ly/KAr950TC5iY

The global nutrition community is investigating investment strategies that could promote increased investment in nutrition programming in low- and middle-income countries. A new paper from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Eleanor Crook Foundation, Using the Lives Saved Tool to Inform Global Nutrition Advocacy, details how the Lives Saved Tool was used to determine the potential impacts of increased investments in nutrition interventions in nine high-burden countries and how the results were packaged to develop Nourish the Future (PDF) - a five-year proposal for the US government to scale up lifesaving malnutrition interventions. https://bit.ly/3AzjWoq Read the full Nourish the Future proposal at https://lnkd.in/d4exus68

REMINDER: Regional Consultation on Multisectoral Nutrition Policy Framework for Eastern and Central Africa, and Workshop on Continental Nutrition Accountability Scorecard The African Union Commission and the African Development Bank’s #Leaders4Nutrition, in collaboration with partners, will host a capacity-building workshop on the digital platform of the Continental Nutrition Accountability Scorecard for Eastern and Central African Regions (CNAS), from 4-5 July 2024, in Kampala, #Uganda. The workshop will follow a consultation on 2 and 3 of July on the development of the multisectoral nutrition policy framework. The consultation process will involve in-depth discussions on key questions around multisectoral #nutrition interventions, and the enabling environment for their implementation, including financing aspects aligned to Financing Targets. Details on both events: https://bit.ly/3VX7x5X

The information, mindset, and standards of care medical practitioners learn in school and implement in practice are outdated and objectively failing. Education on nutrition, supplementation, vitamin deficiency, peptide therapy, and how they affect the epigenome is almost completely absent in medical schooling and mainstream practice. 50% of the US population is deficient in 6 of 7 key vitamins and nutrients required to maintain health and homeostasis, 80% is overweight, and the average life expectancy is decreasing for the first time in a century. These courses provide the knowledge and understanding you need to address this gap in medical education and mainstream practice, based on up-to-date research, giving you the tools you need to optimize your own health, and the health of your patients. https://lnkd.in/e2mAs9kv

What are future needs for nutriton research in Switzerland? How can technological developments help to place nutrition research in a position to produce knowledge that can be translated into practice in line with One Health policies? Our group's position paper in the British Journal of Nutrition, The Nutrition Society, we argue that nutrition research needs to be strategically organised to respond to the societal expectations. One key element of this strategy is to integrate precision nutrition into epidemiological research. Guy Vergères, Murielle Bochud, Corinne Jotterand Chaparro, Diego Moretti Giulia Pestoni, Nicole, Probst-Hensch, Serge Rezzi, Wolfram Brück #nutrition #nutritionresearch #onehealth #switzerland https://lnkd.in/eeYE7X4m

What are the needs for a public health relevant and impactful nutrition and health research in Switzerland? Our collective thoughts and proposals are now published in the British Journal of Nutrition.

🥗 Today, on World Food Day, the European Commission launched its Action Plan on #Nutrition: 8th Progress Report, which tracks the progress made regarding tow pledges by the EU: 👉 to support partner countries in reducing the number of stunted children under the age of five by at least 7 million by 2025 👉 to commit at least €2.5 billion for international cooperation (development and humanitarian aid) with a nutrition objective between 2021 and 2024. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/df3tU988 📍 From Brussels, GIZ supports the #EU and Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with technical assistance and advice on nutrition, through the project Capacity for Nutrition (C4N), which is part of Knowledge for Nutrition. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dWw_QbXX 🌐 GIZ has supported the development of the Progress Report, and also provides advice on nutrition to EU delegations in partner countries, supports the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement on public finance for nutrition and food systems transformation, and promotes better use of existing data for nutrition policy in nine partner countries through the project National Information Platforms for Nutrition (NIPN). 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dthGph6R At NIPN’s global gathering in Addis Ababa on 22 October 2024, the Action Plan on Nutrition: 8th Progress Report will also be presented, as part of the drive towards the Paris Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in March 2025. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d6X326u This Summit is a global pledging moment to drive greater action toward ending malnutrition. It was at the earlier 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit that the EU made the pledge to commit €2.5 billion for international cooperation with a nutrition objective.