A Division of the College of Human Ecology and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
DIVISION OF

Nutritional
Sciences


Program in International Nutrition Seminars

  Thursdays, 12:20 PM
100 Savage Hall - unless otherwise noted
 
Date Day Speaker Title Co-Sponsors
9-Sep Wed Ralph Christy The role of the university in international development CIIFAD

12:20 PM

Emerson Hall

10-Sep Thus Discussion Curriculum discussion (methods, interventions, etc.) 100 Savage Hall
14-Sep Mon Dr. Isatou Jallow Discussion:  Gender and the work of the World Food Program
Comm Nutr

11:15 AM

100Savage Hall

17-Sep Thurs Discussion Curriculum issues, continued
100 Savage Hall
24-Sep Thurs Discussion What's new on HIV and breastfeeding? (Articles will be distributed by email)
100 Savage Hall
28-Sep Mon Rebecca Stoltzfus Expressed Heat-Treated Breast Milk for Babies of HIV-Positive Mothers:  Is this WHO recommendation feasible?  Results from Zimbabwe Nutrition Field

4:00 PM

100 Savage Hall

1-Oct Thurs Keriann Paul
Models for formative research for IYCF interventions 100 Savage Hall
5-Oct Mon Dr. Harriet Friedmann The Ontario Foodshed Project: Research on the Organizational Ecology of an Emerging Regional Agri-Food System Nutrition Field

4:00 PM

100 Savage Hall

8-Oct Thurs Prof. Chris Barrett
Introducing the new IGERT: Food Systems & Poverty Reduction
100 Savage Hall
15-Oct Thurs Latham & Pelletier RUTF:  News from ICN 100 Savage Hall
22-Oct Thurs Rebecca Heidkamp
Program models for use of RUTF 100 Savage Hall
28-Oct Wed Alice Pell Update on the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative CIIFAD

12:20 PM

Emerson Hall

29-Oct Thurs Per Pinstrup-Andersen The World Food Crisis:  Did it effect nutritional status? 100 Savage Hall
4-Nov Wed Suzanne Gervais Meeting the challenges of implementing and integrated agriculture and nutrition intervention CIIFAD

12:20 PM

Emerson Hall

5-Nov Thurs Peter Sandoe (Host: Per) How to handle scientific uncertainty when giving advice in international nutrition:  The case of iron fortification in malaria-endemic areas 100 Savage Hall
9-Nov Mon Lindsay Allen Vitamin B12 Deficiency: Causes, Consequences and Interventions in Developing and Industrialized Countries
Nutrition Field

4:00 PM

100 Savage Hall

12-Nov Thurs Jere Haas Improving worker productivity in Indian tea pluckers with iron and iodine fortified salt 100 Savage Hall
19-Nov Thurs CIPA Colloquim, 4:30 pm, 233 Plant Science    Ken Davies:  Connecting low-income small-holder farmers to markets:  the Purchase for Progress Initiative
23-Nov Mon Kate Dickin Giving kids a CHANCE:  Helping low-income parents promote health choices by shaping children's behaviors and environments Nutrition Field

4:00 PM

100 Savage Hall

26-Nov Thurs THANKSGIVING    
3-Dec Thurs Anna Herforth
Tending broader pathways from Agriculture to Nutrition: A case study of traditional vegetable promotion in Kenya and Tanzania
100 Savage
7-Dec Mon Gretel Pelto TBA Nutrition Field

4:00 PM

100 Savage Hall