Announcements

23 - 25 September, 2010, Porto, Portugal.
 

ACF France is looking for a Nutrition Research Officer for 10 months to be based in Paris.

Please see the attached terms of reference for additional details and on how to apply.

Application deadline: September 10, 2010

SCN News is the biannual newsletter of the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition. It is currently printed and distributed to a readership of 7500 nutrition professionals, programme managers and policy makers - 75%  of whom reside in developing countries. Each issue features a selected topic, in addition to regular columns with updates of interest to nutrition development practitioners.
The next edition of the SCN News, number 39, will feature "the private sector as stakeholder in nutrition". This is a very interesting and relevant topic, which needs to be looked at with different lenses and from a variety of perspectives. What do we understand as the private sector? Conflict and conversion of interests: how to manage these? What are the good examples of public-private collaboration in the field of food and nutrition? How do we monitor public-private partnerships (PPP)? Who needs to monitor PPPs? How do we assess a "successful" public-private partnership (PPP)? What are the human rights and ethical considerations which need to be taken into account when working with the private sector? As a key stakeholder, does the private sector have a role to play in governing bodies of development organizations? What does the private sector expect when engaging with the public sector? What is a win-win situation when engaging in a PPP?
We want to constructively contribute to a global discussion on the role and responsibilities of the private sector with regard to food and nutrition by sharing experiences, opinions and in-depth analyses. We invite you to actively contribute to this reflection and to the SCN News 39.
For more information on how you can contribute to the SCN News 39, please click on the link below to download the information pdf file.

The Nutrition Society of Nigeria announces her 41st Annual Conference and Scientific Meeting for 21st to 25th September 2010 at the Conference Hall, Arewa House in the historic town of Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeia. Details are in the attached flyer. Abstract of papers for presentation are welcome, to be submitted to nsnkadunaconference2010@yahoo.com on or before 31st August 2010.

Olumuyiwa OWOLABI
For and on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee

These courses are being held as part of a new initiative led by the Emergency Nutrition Network to improve the capacity to respond to nutritional emergencies by strengthening professional training. There are several projects being funded via OFDA, including this one coordinated by the Centre for International Health and Development (CIHD - part of University College London). CIHD is collaborating with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre in Thailand, the University of Makerere in Uganda, and the American University of Beirut in Lebanon to run professional training courses in emergency nutrition. The intensive short courses are based on the Harmonized Training Package, developed by the Global Nutrition Cluster, and combine theory with practical group exercises and problem solving. Course modules will be led by experts in the field of emergency nutrition. Each course will culminate with an emergency simulation to help participants apply their knowledge and to understand the challenges of working in emergency settings.

The courses are suitable for a wide range of professionals, including nutritionists who are interested in working in the emergency sector and individuals working in health, food security and livelihoods who want to learn how to prevent and treat malnutrition in emergencies.

The first courses will run on the following dates:
Lebanon: 6th to the 12th September 2010 (by invite only)
Thailand: 11th to the 23rd October 2010
Uganda: 17th to 29th January 2011

The courses in Thailand and Uganda will cost US$2500 for 12 days training including all meals and accommodation. For 2010 the course in Lebanon will be by invite only (we are targeting this course at practitioners from the Middle East). More courses will be run in 2011. 

This initiative is also featured in the current edition of Field Exchange.

GH/Innovate 2011 - Presented by Unite For Sight, 8th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 16 - Sunday, April 17, 2011

http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

Unite For Sight's must-attend, thought-leading conference convenes leaders, changemakers, and participants from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.  The conference convenes 2,200 people from all 50 states and from 50 countries. 

Conference registration is now open. Register during June to secure the lowest registration rate.  The registration rate increases after June.

The conference "Food for the 21st century: How EU Research impacts on Food Quality and Safety?" will take place on 8th July at the European Parliament in Brussels.

There are a limited number of places available, and applications will be accepted on a 'first come, first served' basis.

If you have further questions, please contact  impactfoodresearch@ecorys.com

European Commission, Directorate-General for Research
Directorate E - Biotechnology, agriculture and food research
SDME 2/2, B-1049 Brussels Belgium

On behalf of the Organizers:

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are pleased to send you the invitation of  the 14th International Meeting on Trace Elements in Man and Animals (TEMA-14).
TEMA-14 will take place from September 19 to 24, 2011 in Enshi City, Hubei Province, China. We would be grateful if you could share further this information to anyone who may be interested in the TEMA-14.

For more information: please contact Prof. Junquan Gao Secretary-General of TEMA-14. We are looking forward to seeing you in Enshi, China.

A Senior Nutrition Advisor position has opened up at the International Medical Corps and it is currently open for applications.

Anyone interested can look on the  www.internationalmedicalcorps.org website under headquarters job to find the description and directions for application.

Concern Worldwide has an opening for a Coordinator of the Realigning Agriculture to Integrate Nutrition (RAIN) project in Zambia. Interested candidates should follow the instructions in the file and go to www.concern.net/jobs for application.

Merlin has the following two vacancies:

The Regional Emergency Health Director will be based in Dakar and will help plan, initiate and implement CARE-Merlin's health and nutrition response in emergencies. This will involve continuous dialogue with Merlin, CARE, DfID and other WAHRF partners, horizon-scanning for humanitarian emergencies monitoring trends and needs across the West Africa region. The post-holder will also assist in providing capacity-building and training to existing Merlin programmes throughout West Africa. S/he will need considerable experience of humanitarian emergency response, including medical and nutritional responsibility and a medical qualification would be an advantage. Closing date: Tuesday 29th June 2010.

The MRT Leader will probably be based in London and will develop Merlin's ability to mount effective crisis responses and lead Merlin's responses to significant emergencies. S/he will support country programmes in their disaster preparedness, risk reduction and their response. S/he will manage the Merlin Response Team (MRT) members and effectively position the MRT operationally through engagement with governments, donors, the UN system, peer agencies and a growing set of partnerships to ensure Merlin's ability to mount major and small scale quality emergency responses through effective advocacy. The post will involve 50% travel worldwide - more if you're not based in UK. Closing date: Tuesday 20th July 2010.

The 17th Seminar of the European Nutrition Leadership Programme will be held in Luxembourg from 13 to 21 April 2011.  The aim of the programme is to assist in the development of future leaders in the field of human nutrition in Europe.  These seminars are not focused on science but on other skills and behavioural competencies which future leaders need to have.

Applications should be received at the ENLP secretariat at the latest by 30 November 2010.

The First Global Conference on Biofortification is the first international effort to take stock of progress made in developing nutrient-rich crops, share lessons learned, and chart the future of biofortification. This three-day event will bring agricultural scientists, public health specialists, policymakers, donors, and business leaders together to move this emerging agricultural intervention for public health forward.

When: Tuesday, November 9, 2010 8:00 AM - Thursday, November 11, 2010 2:00 PM
Where: Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center. 3800 Reservoir Road, Washington, DC

The 8th Euro Fed Lipid Congress on Oils, Fats and Lipids will be held in Munich, Germany, on 21-24 November 2010.

The Director of Nutrition reports to the Director of the Center for Global Health and Economic Development (CGHED) in the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and is responsible for expanding public awareness about food availability, food choices that are healthy for humans and food sustainability that impacts the environment and development. S/he provides strategic leadership for an interdisciplinary program that facilitates and accelerates collaboration among leading academics working on health and development in a global context based within Columbia University as well as expert groups working on international nutrition issues.

With continuing global focus on the best means to work our way out of the global economic slowdown please see Save the Children (UK)'s new policy briefing making the case for the Economic Benefits of Investing in Children's Nutrition.

The global community still has a long way to go to ensure the global effort aiming to tackle undernutrition achieves a scale of response that is commensurate with the problem. Amarty Sen stated that 'tackling undernutrition is the biggest battle in international development and the most urgent area of development in our time' in a high profile lecture at the London School of Economics earlier this year. We must continue to do what we can together to marshal appropriate arguments for different audiences.

The Policy Briefing Hungry for Change provides a concise version of the report outlining a plan of action to tackle hunger and undernutrition.

To address the humanitarian impact of conflicts, crisis and natural disasters, Tufts University offers three distinct graduate-level degree programs: Master of Science in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition, Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance and Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy.

"International and regional efforts to reduce hunger need to be continued, and the global food governance system itself needs to be reformed to work better."

"Strengthen global and regional partnerships for a more coordinated international response (architecture) to acute malnutrition. Establish and cultivate coordination between different sectors influencing nutrition, both within organizations at the level of departments or sections, and externally, between government ministries and public and private sectors."

These recommendations come from 2 recently published documents produced by IFPRI and ACF.

To download the documents:

Halving Hunger: Meeting the first millennium development goal through business as unusual
by Shenggen Fan (IFPRI), click here

Taking action  Nutrition for survival, growth & development
May 2010 White paper by Action Contre la Faim International, click here

The 8th International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods will take place on 8-10 May 2012, Rome, Italy

For further information, please click here
 

FAO has announced the following upcoming conference:

Scientific Symposium on Biodiversity and Sustainable Diets
3-5 November 2010, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy

Deadline for call for abstracts is 6 September 2010.

The International Symposium on Dietary Protein Quality for Humans will take place in
March 2011, Auckland, New Zealand

For further information, please click here

The 9th International Food Data Conference will take place in
September 2011, Norwich, England.

For further information, please click here

The Feinstein International Center at Tufts University is recruiting for the position of Assistant Researcher for the Humanitarian Need Analysis Support Project, focusing on research design and analysis (including survey design), data cleaning, statistical analysis, field surveying and training development. The position will also support the forthcoming 2011 conference of the International Humanitarian Studies Association, to be held at Tufts.