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Integrating health, nutrition,
and food security: Making the case
October 11-12, 2007 • Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Institute for Health and Social Justice at Partners In Health recently hosted a conference on Integrating
health, nutrition, and food security: Making the case. Below are the presentations (in PDF format) from the conference sessions.
At the conclusion of the meeting, Partners In Health and 15 other participating
organizations and individuals issued a Conference
Statement calling for united
action to design, implement and advocate for meaningful and rapid change in
three areas: ensuring good nutrition for all children during the "window
of vulnerability" under the age of two; access to adequate and nutritious
food for people suffering from HIV and TB; and addressing micronutrient needs
through supplementation, agricultural planning and production, and integration
into health programs.
Day 1: Thursday, October 11
Session I: Food as Treatment
Food as an integral component of disease treatment: Presentation and discussion of successful nutritional interventions with measurable impact on the incidence and severity of specific diseases (Moderator: Joia Mukherjee, Partners In Health/Harvard University)
Session II: Linking Nutrition, Health and Agriculture
Linking soil, plant, and animal nutrition using practical examples and a discussion of how to forge some of the needed linkages between the nutrition, health and agriculture sectors. (Moderator: Alice Pell, Cornell University)
Day 2: Friday, October 12
Session III: Food as Prevention:
Nutritional interventions as a “vaccine” to reduce morbidity and mortality: Presentation and discussion of successful nutritional interventions with measurable impact on the incidence and severity of specific diseases. Food security as population-based risk mitigation: Presentation and discussion of demonstrated decreased disease risk with improved food security. (Moderator: Jennifer Coates, Tufts University)
Session IV: Policy, Funding and Programming
Presentation and discussion of the role of local production and sourcing of food aid: Resource-allocation to foster integration of health and nutrition programs; and greater efforts towards increased food security for the most vulnerable populations. (Moderators: Patrick Webb, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University; Paul Farmer, Partners In Health/Harvard University)
This conference was sponsored by the Institute for Health and Social Justice at Partners In Health in collaboration with the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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