Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Shawn Baker, Chief Nutritionist at USAID, talks about his career trajectory and shares advice for students and young professionals in public health nutrition. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Shawn Baker, Chief Nutritionist at USAID, discusses financing for improved nutrition, maternal and child health, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global health. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Speakers discuss the relationship between micronutrient deficiencies in mothers and children and how evidence-based interventions and nutrition policy can help alleviate micronutrient malnutrition. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Regional industrial food fortification program standardization requires aligning standards and regulatory frameworks; strengthening public- and private-sector institutional capacity to implement programs in a sustained way; monitoring guidelines; and cooperation around quality control, compliance, and enforcement. Speakers reflect on successes, challenges, and potential areas for further collaboration. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Speakers present historical examples of implementing the International Code and discuss breastfeeding; first food systems and corporate power; the exposure to, and impact of, baby food marketing; and protecting breastfeeding from breast-milk substitutes marketing. This webinar is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Research findings support review of current WHO hemoglobin cutoffs to define anemia. Significant variations in the 5th percentile of hemoglobin values across the 1–19 years age range and between sexes argue against constructing common cutoffs in stratified age groups for convenience.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Papers explore barriers and facilitators to integrating maternal and child nutrition into health care services. Addressing financing, health information systems, health workforce, supplies and technology, governance, and service delivery issues are as critical as engaging in robust implementation science research.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
New estimates of the global prevalence of deficiency in at least one of three micronutrients suggest 56 percent of preschool-aged children and 69 percent of non-pregnant women of reproductive age are affected. Three-quarters of these children live in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and East Asia and the Pacific while 57 percent of these women live in East Asia and the Pacific and South Asia.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This monitoring and supervision tool was largely developed to monitor the integration of food and nutrition security and early childhood development issues (with an emphasis on communicating and playing with children) into community development programming in Uganda. The tool will be used by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development to follow up on progress, by documenting and learning from experiences, and to help strengthen planning and implementation of community development programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Delivering maternal nutrition counseling through multiple delivery platforms improved maternal diet and/or weight gain during pregnancy. Integrating maternal nutrition counseling into pre- and in-service curricula; providing routine training, mentoring, and supportive supervision for health providers; generating global and regional weight gain guidelines; and incorporating counseling indicators as part of quality-of-care standards and routine health systems are important.