Event Information

The World Bank Group’s SecureNutrition platform and the Food Safety and Quality Global Solution Group of the World Bank Agriculture Global Practice are hosting a seminar on November 16, 2017 entitled “Cracking the Egg’s Potential to Improve Child Growth and Development.” This seminar will focus on the findings from a randomized controlled trial in Ecuador that provided eggs as part of the complementary feeding diet to young children. Results show that stunting was reduced by 47 percent and this webinar will discuss why eggs can be a potential method to addressing undernutrition.

Participants include:

Speakers:

• Chessa Lutter, PhD. Senior Nutrition Researcher @RTI International | Visiting Research Professor @University of Maryland School of Public Health
• Christine Stewart, PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of California at Davis
• Lora Iannotti, PhD. Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Brown School, Institute for Public Health, Washington University
• Franck Cesar Jean Berthe, Senior Livestock Specialist, Agricultural Global Practice, World Bank Group. (Discussant)

Please click on the link for more information and to register.