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SUMMARY:Food for Thought Panel Talk: Why can't we keep our children health
 y? - Professor Alice Reid\, University of Cambridge.  Dr Akanksha Marph
 atia\, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. Mduduzi NN Mbuya
 \, (GAIN). Dr Ann Prentice\, Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow\, University 
 of Cambridge. Rodrigo Rivera\, FAO
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CONTACT:A B Youngman
DESCRIPTION:%{color:red}An online panel event on the international challen
 ges of early years nutrition.  Organised in collaboration with Cambridge R
 eproduction SRI%\n\nhttps://www.globalfood.cam.ac.uk/events/food-thought-p
 anel-talk-why-cant-we-keep-our-children-healthy \n\nOur panel of experts o
 n international child health policy\, ​geography\, education and nutriti
 on will discuss the factors that influence nutrition\, physical and mental
  development in the early years\, as well as the challenges that families 
 face in raising healthy children.\n\nThey will also discuss differences be
 tween the Global North and Global South\, how they can be overcome and who
  should drive this change.\n\n*Our panel:*\n\nChair:\n\n*Professor Alic
 e Reid\, Director of the Cambridge Group for the History and Population an
 d Social Structure\, University of Cambridge.*\nAlice is a historical demo
 grapher\, working on fertility\, mortality and health in the late nineteen
 th and early twentieth centuries.\n\nSpeakers:\n\n*Dr Akanksha Marphatia\,
  Honorary Research Associate\, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child 
 Health*\nAkanksha's research focuses on how gender inequality\, maternal a
 nd infant undernutrition shape educational attainment and girls' early mar
 riage. She has recently applied this geographical perspective on a joint U
 niversity of Cambridge and UCL project on women's early marriage in Nepal.
  She has two decades of experience working in international education and 
 gender policy\, most recently as Director of International Education at Ac
 tionAid International.\n\n*Mduduzi NN Mbuya\, Global Alliance for Improved
  Nutrition (GAIN)*\nMduduzi is Director\, Knowledge Leadership with the Gl
 obal Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). He has worked for over two de
 cades on nutrition sensitive programs and policy in LMIC\, and in his curr
 ent role at GAIN he is responsible for research and evaluation. He works w
 ith GAIN teams and partners to generate and use evidence to guide improved
  design and implementation of food systems program and to fill critical ga
 ps in the global evidence.\n\n*Dr Ann Prentice\, Honorary Senior Visiting 
 Fellow\, MRC Epidemiology Unit\, University of Cambridge*\nAnn is the form
 er Director of the MRC Elsie Widdowson Laboratory (previously MRC Human Nu
 trition Research)\, Cambridge\, and was Programme Leader of the MRC Nutrit
 ion and Bone Health Research Group\, Cambridge\, and Head of the Calcium\,
  Vitamin D and Bone Health research team at MRC Unit The Gambia.\n\n*Rod
 rigo Rivera\, Poverty and Food Security Analyst FAO*\nRodrigo is an econom
 ist with experience in the analysis of food security and poverty in Latin 
 America.
LOCATION:https://www.globalfood.cam.ac.uk/events/food-thought-panel-talk-w
 hy-cant-we-keep-our-children-healthy
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