WEBINAR SERIES
Global Food and Nutrition Security towards 2030: Innovation in Implementation
Webinar recorded in July 2020
This year the pandemic in particular has highlighted fractures in both food and nutrition security globally, also in 2020 we have seen the launch of a new Global Nutrition Report as well as other landmark findings from worldwide surveillance, all of which tell us that there is the need for new innovative strategies to implement solutions, so that we can achieve global food and nutrition security by 2030. This webinar explores a number of high level strategies as well as provides an example of innovative practice in the form of the Mobile Teaching Kitchen intervention.
Each webinar is followed by a dedicated Journal Club where selected papers from associated wider literature are presented and discussed in more detail.
The webinars and journal clubs are held in partnership with the International Academy of Nutrition Educators as well as the BMJ Nutrition Prevention and Health.
This year the pandemic in particular has highlighted fractures in both food and nutrition security globally, also in 2020 we have seen the launch of a new Global Nutrition Report as well as other landmark findings from worldwide surveillance, all of which tell us that there is the need for new innovative strategies to implement solutions, so that we can achieve global food and nutrition security by 2030. This webinar explores a number of high level strategies as well as provides an example of innovative practice in the form of the Mobile Teaching Kitchen intervention.
Each webinar is followed by a dedicated Journal Club where selected papers from associated wider literature are presented and discussed in more detail.
The webinars and journal clubs are held in partnership with the International Academy of Nutrition Educators as well as the BMJ Nutrition Prevention and Health.
Meet the instructor
Professor Sumantra Ray RNutr
NNEdPro Founding Chair and Executive Director
Other affiliations: University of Cambridge | Ulster University | Imperial College London | University of Wollongong
Sumantra (Shumone) Ray is a Licensed Medical Doctor as well as a Registered Nutritionist (Public Health), with special interests in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Nutrition Education in Health Systems.
He is cross-appointed in Cambridge as a Director of Research at the University of Cambridge and Co-Lead for the Food, Nutrition and Education Work Package for the TIGR2ESS Programme in India (2017-21) led from Cambridge and supported by UK Research and Innovation's Global Challenges Research Fund. Additionally, Shumone holds a fractional personal chair appointment as Professor of Global Nutrition, Health and Disease at Ulster University as well as a number of honorary/visiting professorial appointments more widely including Imperial College London.