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Incorporating Nutrition into Feed the Future Research Programs

Event Date: Feb 11, 2014

Time: 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM (GMT -5)

Location: United States

Online: Online Event

Event Links: Webinar Recording

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Nutrition is one of the fundamental cross-cutting themes in all Feed the Future programs. Research programs funded by Feed the Future should identify, as appropriate, how the programs could add value or impact nutrition, and the activities and indicators they are using to achieve and measure nutrition impact.

This webinar provided an overview of the global malnutrition problem, the main approaches through which the agriculture sector can address malnutrition, some of the agriculture- related issues that can have a negative impact on nutrition, USAID programs and resources to address malnutrition, and finally an overview of the Feed the Future Nutrition Innovation Labs for Asia and Africa.

Agenda

  1. Overview of malnutrition in the global context (Ahmed Kablan, BFS)
  2. Overview of a key  agriculture relevant issue affecting nutritional outcomes (Jeffery Griffiths, Nutrition Innovation Lab-Africa)
    1. Mycotoxins/aflatoxin
    2. Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)/Environmental Enteropathy/gut microbiota 
  3. Agriculture sector approaches to addressing malnutrition (Patrick Webb Nutrition Innovation Lab-Asia)
    1. Include concept and examples of nutrition-sensitive interventions
  4. USAID programming to address malnutrition 
    1. Overview  (Maura Mack, BFS)
    2. Nutrition Innovation Labs  Overview and opportunities for collaboration(Patrick Webb)

Incorporating Nutrition into Feed the Future Research Programs

Maura Headshot
Maura Mack
USAID Bureau for Food Security

Maura D. Mack is a Nutrition Advisor with the USAID Bureau for Food Security/Office of Agricultural Research and Policy. She has served 13 years with USAID on long-term assignments in the Philippines, Afghanistan, and at... more headquarters, and short-term assignments in Ethiopia, Ecuador, and West Africa. Maura also has 15 years of US domestic experience working on public health issues, primarily in the US-Mexico border region. She has an MPH in Nutrition from UC-Berkeley and an interdisciplinary PhD in nutrition, agriculture, and agricultural economics from the University of Arizona. less

Ahmed Headshot
Ahmed Kablan
USAID Bureau for Food Security

Ahmed Kablan is a Pharmacologist with a biotechnology and drug discovery background. He has over 12 years of postdoctoral research and science policy and regulatory experience. He is a member of the USAID nutrition technical... more working group that is tasked with writing the USAID Nutrition Strategy, is a member of the working group that is writing USAID research policy, helped in drafting the Feed the Future nutrition action paper, and provided a topline and in depth summary of the 2013 lancet series on maternal and child nutrition and health. Kablan is the activity manager for the Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab and the Feed the Future Nutrition Innovation Labs for Africa and Asia. less

Patrick Webb
Patrick Webb
Tufts University

Patrick Webb is Dean for Academic Affairs at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Boston. He is currently Program Director for the Feed the Future Nutrition Innovation Lab for Asia, as well as... more Principal Investigator for the Food Aid Quality Review supported by the Office of Food for Peace. Until 2005, he worked for the United Nations World Food Programme in Rome as Chief of Nutrition. During that time he was part of the Millennium Development Goals Hunger Task Force reporting to Secretary General Kofi Annan. He currently researches the design of food security interventions, national policies supportive of agriculture, and food aid formulation and policy issues. less

Jeffrey Griffiths
Jeffrey Griffiths
Tufts University

Jeffrey K. Griffiths is the Director of the Feed the Future Nutrition Innovation Lab for Africa and has worked at the intersection of health and nutrition for 30 years. By training he is a pediatrician, internist, and infectious... more diseases physician with expertise in infectious diseases and the influence of the environment on health. For many years he has been involved in US water policy and has thrice testified before the US Senate. He is the immediate past Chair of the Drinking Water Committee of the US EPA’s Science Advisory Board, and was a founding member of the interdisciplinary Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) program at Tufts University. less

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