10th Annual Nutrition and Global Health Symposium

Thank you for attending the 2019 Nutrition and Global Health Symposium! 

Materials from the symposium can be found here, including the video recording, keynote speech slides, event photos, and more. A write-up of the symposium can be found here.

Food Systems as Drivers of Optimal Nutrition and Health

November 20, 2019
9am-1pm
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Kresge G3 Auditorium
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

Malnutrition is now the leading modifiable risk factor contributing to morbidity and mortality globally. In low and middle income countries, a double burden is manifest through continued high prevalence of undernutrition, while overweight and obesity is rising in all countries of the world including Africa and south Asia. Food systems are critical to advancing health and nutrition of individuals and populations, through ensuring availability and consumption of quality diets that prevent both under and over nutrition. High consumption of animal source foods is associated with higher risk of non communicable diseases, but moderate consumption is recommended especially for pregnant women and children in low income countries to provide optimal sources of protein and micronutrients. Plant source foods can deliver adequate amounts of almost all essential nutrients, and are favorable from the perspective of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, but are missing some features of animal source foods such as high micronutrient profile.

The 10th Annual Nutrition and Global Health Symposium, Food Systems as Drivers of Optimal Nutrition and Health, will explore opportunities and challenges in building a food system that delivers a healthy diet to meet the double burden of malnutrition. Livestreaming is available here.

Agenda

8:15am            Breakfast and Registration

9:00am           Welcome and Introduction
                           Wafaie Fawzi, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences and Professor of
                           Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

9:15am            Food Systems for Health
                           Robert Paarlberg, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

9:30am           Keynote Speech: “The Science of Feeding – and Nourishing – the Future”
                           Robert Bertram, Chief Scientist, USAID Bureau for Food Security

10:15am          Discussion and Q&A

10:30am         Coffee Break

11:00am          Panel: Nourishing the Future: Suggestions for a Research Agenda
                           Moderator:
                           Robert Paarlberg, Adjunct Professor, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
                           Panelists:
                           Shibani Ghosh, Research Associate Professor, Tufts University Friedman School of
                           Nutrition Science and Policy
                           Sam Myers, Principal Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
                           Isabel Madzorera, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

12:00pm         Panel: Measurement in Nutrition, Agriculture, and Health
                           Moderator:
                           Wafaie Fawzi, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences and Professor of
                           Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
                           Panelists:
                           Lindsay Jaacks, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
                           Anna Herforth, Senior Research Associate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
                           Sabri Bromage, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

12:45pm          Closing Remarks
                           William Masters, Professor, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

1:00pm           Program End

Registration is required.

For additional information, please contact Tara Young at tyoung@hsph.harvard.edu.