Thursday, October 29, 2020

WEBINARS: addressing acute malnutrition in Africa's drylands

22 October 2020. Addressing acute malnutrition in Africa's drylands - Hosted by FAO and Tufts University: Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Objective: To highlight and promote understanding of the seasonal and inter annual variability in climate, environment and ecology of drylands and implications for the underlying drivers of acute malnutrition, the seasonality of wasting and disease and on international action.
  • Hon. Mohammed Elmi, Chief Administrative Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Government of Kenya
  • Anastasia Marshak, Researcher, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University
  • Elena Naumova, Professor and Chair of the Division of Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Sciences, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
  • Hussein Sulieman, Professor and Director of the Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, University of Gadarif, Sudan
  • Moderator: Saverio Krätli, Researcher Specializing on Pastoralism, editor of Nomadic Peoples, the journal of the ‘Commission on Nomadic Peoples’ of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Studies (IUAES)

Upcoming:

5 November 2020. Technical Series on the conceptual framework for addressing acute malnutrition in Africa's drylands. Hosted by FAO and Tufts University: Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

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