Addressing Micronutrient Deficiencies Among Women and Girls in Humanitarian Settings
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MNF@IUNS-ICN 2022
MNF is in person in Tokyo, Japan this week at the 22nd International Union of Nutritional Sciences – International Congress of Nutrition (IUNS-ICN). Learn more about ICN here. We have two upcoming sessions – one hosted by the Micronutrient Forum and the other hosted by one of its programs – the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Consortium (HMHB). View resources …
Message from Executive Director Saskia Osendarp
Coming in 2023 Forum’s 6th Global Conference – Nutrition for Resilience (N4R) The role of adequate nutritional status is neglected in research and development agendas as integral in pathways that build and lead to resiliency. After many years of progress on nutrition, health, and development, we now seem to have crisis upon crises threatening nutrition …
HMHB releases short film in honor of community health workers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKuATaILPz0 In celebration of the World Health Workers Week, HMHB released the second film in a series of short films on ‘Women’s Voices’, honoring health workers like Shakuntala, from Borwadi Tanda, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, who support vulnerable mothers and babies. In this film, Shakuntala, a dedicated health worker, recounts the struggles faced by pregnant women …
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CONNECTED Conference Hall of Fame
As we gear up for the next Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference, Nutrition for Resilience, a hybrid event taking place in fall of 2023, here is a look back to the CONNECTED 2020 conference highlights. We gathered a list of the top 20 sessions covering topics from food systems and climate change to data gaps …
Let’s Put Women First
Celebrating International Women’s Day and One Year of Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Consortium Watch Agurash’s Story: “My wife is a wife of a farmer, so she doesn’t rest”, remarks Agurash’s husband Tesfaye Abate. Agurash, a woman in her third trimester of pregnancy, from Habru, Ethiopia, recounts her unquantifiable roles as a wife, mother, food provider, …
Powering Women – Promising Futures: Launching a Women’s Nutrition Movement at N4G
On November 30th, 2021 the Micronutrient Forum, alongside the WHO, UNICEF, BMGF, and CIFF, hosted Powering Women – Promising Futures, an official side-event at the Nutrition for Growth Summit. As reflected in the short highlight video, women, maternal, and girls’ nutrition is not simply a matter of poverty- it is also born from inequity. Millions …
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