The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945.
In an effort to raise awareness about the current food crisis and the various challenges brought to the food chain due for example to Global warming and the biofuel boom, this year's theme was "World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy".
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YPHNN - What are our objectives?
- Create a common vision for the future of international public health nutrition from the perspective of young public health nutritionists
- Devise approaches for young public health nutritionists to influence policies relevant to public health nutrition
- Provide opportunities to enable productive exchange of individuals, information and ideas across institution, networks and organisations within and between countries
- Collaborate with other relevant current and future public health nutrition institutions and networks
YPHNN - Who can join?
- Membership is open to all who are one of the following:
- a) a student or recent graduate of a BSc, MSc or PhD programme related to public health nutrition; or
- b) researcher, postdoctoral fellow or faculty member interested public health nutrition, and in the development and mentoring of future public health nutritionists.
- "Young" is intended here to imply new and inexperienced, rather than young in age.
- *The persons engaged in the Young Public Health Nutrition Network do so in their individual capacity and do not represent the decisions or the stated policy of the institutions to which they are affiliated
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YPHNN - Founding Members (alphabetically ordered)
- Carl Lachat*; Nutrition and Child Health Unit, Department of Public Health, Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine; Department of food safety and food quality, Ghent University, Belgium
- Christophe Matthys*; Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Belgium; Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health, Massey University, New Zealand; ILSI-Europe, Belgium
- Emma Patterson*; Unit for Preventive Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden; School of Biological Sciences, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
- Lena L. Nymoen*; Bioforsk Organic Food and Farming, Tingvoll, Norway
- Salome Scholtens*; National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Centre for Prevention and Health Services Research, The Netherlands
- Vanessa Candeias*; Institute of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon University, Portugal
Who maintains this blog?
This blog is maintained by members of the Young Public Health Nutrition Network. We are young public health nutrition scientists/ practitioners and have no commercial interests in the contents published.
Feel free to email us: yph.nutrition@gmail.com
Feel free to email us: yph.nutrition@gmail.com
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