Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference | 16-20 October 2023
Leaders and Experts At #N4R
ACTION CONTRE LA FAIM, ACF France, President
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Lawrence Haddad” image_id=”13095″]
Executive Director, GAIN, World Food Prize Laureate
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13301″ title=”Nabeeha Kazi Hutchins”]
President and CEO of PAI
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13009″ title=”Stanley Zlotkin”]
Chief, Centre for Global Child Health, SickKids, Canada
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13089″ title=”H.E. Cessouma Minata Samaté”]
Commissioner,
African Union
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13302″ title=”Monica Rodriguez”]
Chief of Party, USAID Advancing Nutrition Honduras
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13094″ title=”Simon Groot”]
East-West Seeds, World Food Prize Laureate
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Brigit Teubes” image_id=”13097″]
University of Groningen, Nutrition and Human Rights Advocate
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13090″ title=”Cary Fowler”]
Special Envoy for Global Food Security, U.S. Department of State
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Afshan Khan” image_id=”13104″]
Coordinator, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13075″ title=”Erick Boy”]
Chief Nutritionist, Harvest Plus, Canada
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13112″ title=”Saskia Osendarp”]
Executive Director, Micronutrient Forum
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Jennifer Coates” image_id=”13077″]
Associate Professor, Tufts University, USA
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13007″ title=”Mary Uyoga”]
Nutritional Epidemiologist, North-West University, South Africa
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Cynthia Rosenzweig” image_id=”13096″]
Climatologist, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia University World Food Prize Laureate
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Jo Puri” image_id=”13099″]
Associate Vice-President,
IFAD
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13093″ title=”Howarth Bouis”]
Founding Director, Harvest Plus, World Food Prize Laureate
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Cherrie Atilano” image_id=”13101″]
Founder and CEO, AGREA Agricultural Systems International, Inc.
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Leonard Mizzi” image_id=”13650″]
Head of Unit, Sustainable Agri-food Systems and Fisheries, European Commission (DG-INTPA)
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Purnima Menon” image_id=”13152″]
Senior Director, IFPRI
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Andrew Morley” image_id=”13102″]
President and CEO, World Vision
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Joel Spicer” image_id=”13106″]
President and CEO, Nutrition International
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Jane Badham” image_id=”13110″]
Managing Director, JB Consultancy
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Shawn K. Baker” image_id=”13109″]
Chief Program Officer, Helen Keller International,
USA
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Rajul Pandya-Lorch” image_id=”13183″]
Board of Directors, Micronutrient Forum
Independent Strategic and Communications Leader
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Klaus Kraemer” image_id=”13184″]
Board of Directors, Micronutrient Forum
President, Sight and Life Foundation
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Maria Elena Jefferds” image_id=”13192″]
Lead Epidemiologist and Team Lead,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Kyly Whitfield” image_id=”13186″]
Associate Professor, Mount Saint Vincent University,
Canada
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Kenneth Brown” image_id=”13182″]
Emeritus Distinguished Professor,
Department of Nutrition and Institute for Global Nutrition,
University of California, Davis, USA
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Lindsay Allen” image_id=”13187″]
Research Physiologist, USDA,
ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center,
USA
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Mdu Mbuya” image_id=”13189″]
Director of Knowledge Leadership,
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN),
USA
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Deanna Olney” image_id=”13188″]
Director, Nutrition, Diets and Health Unit
International Food Policy Research Institute
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13073″ title=”Kamija Phiri”]
Professor, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Malawi
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Asma Lateef” image_id=”13190″]
Policy and Advocacy Lead, SDG2 Advocacy Hub,
USA
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Inge Brouwer” image_id=”13191″]
Professor, Wageningen University & Research
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Bessie Ndovi” image_id=”13195″]
Coordinator, Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Alliance (CSONA),
Malawi
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Abdul Baseer Khan Achakzai” image_id=”13231″]
Director General (Health), Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, Pakistan
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Olga P. García” image_id=”13235″]
Human Nutrition Research, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro,
Mexico
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Cecilia Zanin Palchetti” image_id=”13232″]
Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Nutrition, University of Sao Paulo,
Brazil
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Ajay Kumar Khera” image_id=”13233″]
Country Representative at EngenderHealth, India
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Lillian Karanja-Odhiambo” image_id=”13234″]
Public Health Nutritionist, Kenya
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Ngozi Nnam” image_id=”13238″]
Professor of Community & Public Health Nutrition, Department of Nutrition & Dietetics, University of Nigeria
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Francesco Branco” image_id=”13261″]
WHO Nutrition Director
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Pauline Theresa Mapfumo” image_id=”13239″]
Youth Nutrition Advocate, Zimbabwe
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Ireen Akhter Chowdhury” image_id=”13249″]
Nutrition Officer, UNICEF Bangladesh
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son title=”Abigail Perry” image_id=”13260″]
WFP Nutrition Director
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13076″ title=”Sophie Moore”]
Professor, Global Women & Children’s Health
King’s College London
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13008″ title=”Michael Zimmermann”]
Professor, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13004″ title=”Anna Lartey”]
Professor of Nutrition, University of Ghana, Ghana
[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son image_id=”13006″ title=”Shakuntala Thilsted”]
Director, Nutrition, Health and Food Security Impact Area Platform, CGIAR, Denmark
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A road to resilience to protect and accelerate nutrition progress in an era of crises.
The “Way Forward” statement is issued by the Micronutrient Forum based on a synthesis of the evidence presented in the conference program and thought leadership.
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The Global Conference is the flagship event of the Micronutrient Forum.
The 6th Global Conference took place from October 16 to 20, 2023, coinciding with World Food Day. Over 2,200 delegates from more than 100 countries participated either online or in person at the World Forum in The Hague, Netherlands.
[/mvc_infobox]Nutrition for Resilience #N4R -
Ensuring Micronutrient Security in an Era of Complex Global ChallengesThe world is facing multiple, complex and cascading challenges that are adversely impacting human well-being, including nutrition and micronutrient security. #MNF2023 will bring together diverse international and national delegates across sectors and disciplines to drive compelling and evidence-based agendas that promote nutrition and strengthen population resilience in the face of rising shocks including climate change and man-made conflicts.
The Global Conference offers opportunities to advance integrated research and identify innovative policy solutions and investments for micronutrient interventions, enabling accelerated progress towards global nutrition and development goals.
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#N4R represents a critical stepping-stone to the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit as leaders, experts, policymakers, program implementors, and advocates from across national governments, bilateral donors, multilateral organizations, academia, civil society, and responsible businesses join forces, build momentum, and align on a way forward that will shape N4G’s policy agenda.
As momentum and interest rise among leading nutrition partners, the Road to Resilience (R2R) Advocacy Agenda will bridge forthcoming global events along a collective agenda can be launched at #N4R and continue across other key moments, including COP, to the #N4G Summit in Paris.
Highlights From the Program:
This session will focus on the importance of data on population MN status for policy and program development; the role of MN status biomarkers in assessing population status and their biological basis; and review information on the prevalence of selected MN deficiencies and factors influencing these estimates.[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son img_radius=”50px” titlesize=”18″ fontweight=”bold” line_height=”2″ line_visibility=”show” line_width=”300″ line_style=”2px solid #fff” content_padding=”20″ title=”WHAT IS NEEDED TO SUPPORT, SCALE AND SUSTAIN MICRONUTRIENT NUTRITION SOLUTIONS?” image_id=”12461″ img_width=”100px” img_height=”100px” contain_url=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmnforum2023.org%2Fprogram-overview%2F|target:_blank”] 19 October 05:30 PM
In this panel we will discuss with a diverse set of stakeholders from the public and private sectors to understand their experiences with developing, implementing, scaling and sustaining micronutrient solutions and what they see as the ways to overcome existing barriers to scale and sustainability.[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son img_radius=”50px” titlesize=”18″ fontweight=”bold” line_height=”2″ line_visibility=”show” line_width=”300″ line_style=”2px solid #fff” content_padding=”20″ title=”FORGING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN HUMANITARIAN AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS TO STRENGTHEN MICRONUTRIENT AND NUTRITIONAL RESILIENCE” image_id=”12460″ img_width=”100px” img_height=”100px” contain_url=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmnforum2023.org%2Fprogram-overview%2F|target:_blank”] 17 October 05:30 PM
This plenary session aims to showcase how nutrition programs can enhance resilience and demonstrate impact. It will also explore how such programs can secure funding within existing financing structures.[/tm_carousel_son][tm_carousel_son img_radius=”50px” titlesize=”18″ fontweight=”bold” line_height=”2″ line_visibility=”show” line_width=”300″ line_style=”2px solid #fff” content_padding=”20″ title=”DEVELOPMENTS IN HUMAN MILK AND LACTATION” image_id=”12462″ img_width=”100px” img_height=”100px” contain_url=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmnforum2023.org%2Fprogram-overview%2F|target:_blank”] 17 October 10:30 AM
This session will provide an overview of some of the larger, longitudinal studies of human milk composition. The Mothers, Infants and Lactation Quality (MILQ) study is developing Reference Values for many constituents of human milk, including micronutrients.[/tm_carousel_son][/tm_carousel_father]Track 1: Micronutrient Biology and Status Assessment:
The biology of micronutrient nutrition and status assessment.
Track 2: Efficacy and Safety of Micronutrient Interventions:
The efficacy and safety of micronutrient interventions on micronutrient intake, status and related functional outcomes.
Track 3: Program Implementation and Effectiveness:
Bridging the gap between evidence and implementation to optimize the scale-up of micronutrient interventions.
Track 4: Designing Enabling Environments for Micronutrients:
Engaging new actors and building new alliances, and expanding the field of view to include global, regional, and national policy considerations, financing, innovative partnerships, climate change, communications, and advocacy.
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