NNEdPro 15th Anniversary

The Future Food Institute is an Italian-based non-profit with global horizons that aims to build a more equitable world by enlightening a world-class breed of innovators, boosting entrepreneurial potential and improving agri-food expertise and tradition.

The 15th anniversary of NNEdPro is an opportunity for the Future Food Institute to be inspired and reflect.

To be inspired by the wholesome growth of this spin-off, which embodies the very core of applied, intersectional, interdisciplinary, participatory research.

To reflect on the many different opportunities for future collaboration: from projects to conferences and events to give visibility to the nexus between sustainable food systems and public health. What does a sustainable diet look like? We are thrilled to be exploring this question with NNEdPro by our side as a guiding light!

Dr Sofia Cavalleri

We are writing to express our strong endorsement of NNEdPro´s work and mission to advance and implement food and nutrition knowledge for health and society globally, as well as to offer our support for your upcoming activities regarding nutrition education throughout the world.

As a leading institution of higher education in Mexico, we are committed to promoting excellence in all areas of society, and we recognize that your organization shares this commitment. We greatly appreciate the important contributions that your organization has made to the education of our nutrition students and to our nutrition program in general.

We are particularly thankful by your efforts to guide and tutor our students in the development and implementation of the Mobile Teaching Kitchen model in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey, this project has had a very positive impact in the academic experience of our students and on the people who had the opportunity of attending one of the Mobile Teaching Kitchen Workshops.

Your dedication to health and nutrition education and to community empowerment is truly admirable, and we at Tec de Monterrey, share your commitment to these important principles.

In recognition of your important work around the world, we are pleased to offer our support for your upcoming nutrition education initiatives. We believe that NNEdPro has the potential to make a significant difference in health promotion and nutrition education in the world and we are eager to keep working with you toward achieving the Development Goals set by the United Nations.

We look forward to working with in the future and to continue our partnership in support of Nutrition Education and Health promotion.

Rebeca Leyva Rico and María Verónica Flores Bello

I have been a member of NNEdPro for approaching 5 years. NNEdPro has provided me with several opportunities to improve our collective understanding of nutrition and make progress towards tackling malnutrition in all its forms.

I have gained from the global network of inspiring and influential colleagues that spans several sectors and disciplines.

My involvement with NNEdPro has been rewarding and worthwhile, and on a personal note, has been instrumental in my progress as a clinician academic early in my career. I am excited to see what NNEdPro is able to achieve in the years ahead through continued collaboration and action toward better nutrition.

Dr Dominic Crocombe

Dear Shumone,

Thank you for your recent communication, and I am pleased to note your 9th International Summit on Nutrition and Health is taking place – I even remember your first summit!

I am also pleased to acknowledge 2023 being your 15th Anniversary as an organisation. May I take this opportunity to send my congratulations on reaching this significant milestone. The past 15 years have seen many challenges for us all, and your determination to persevere throughout is to be much admired.

My best wishes for another successful summit.

Mark Hollingsworth

I am writing this letter in support of NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health as a key representative of one of NNEdPro’s strategic collaborative partners.

NNEdPro is a not-for-profit global and interdisciplinary think-tank and an independent research organisation which brings together over 700 voluntary contributors from among leading professionals in the field of nutrition and health spanning over 50 countries worldwide. We believe that everyone has the right to good nutrition. In addition to a world-class record across research and education impacts, including several hundred peer-reviewed publications, we also provide direct support to vulnerable families and communities on the ground through our multi-award-winning Mobile Teaching Kitchen International Initiative, whilst our educational programmes train frontline healthcare professionals as well as policymakers around the globe. 

NNEdPro’s goal is to improve nutrition-related health outcomes in line with the UNs’ Sustainable Development Goals and the Decade of Action on Nutrition. To accomplish this, they aim to provide the best of education, research, evaluation, and advocacy, particularly in nutrition-related aspects of health and food systems. With the support of those who share their values and goals, they aim to strengthen and promote international initiatives and exchange knowledge implementation of medical nutrition in practical settings. 

2023 marks nine continuous years of holding the NNEdPro annual International Summit on Nutrition and Health. NNEdPro intends to spend the next two years looking back at the last nine summits to see what has been achieved in terms of global consensus and draw out both the needs and solutions for the final two years of the UNs Decade of Action on Nutrition (which concludes in 2025).  

For these reasons, I strongly support NNEdPro and their current and future ventures.

If you have any further questions about their qualifications, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Dr Emma Mulligan

Since October 2019, the Swiss Re Institute have funded your research at NNEdPro, working together across a range of topics. You and your team have performed consultancy work in India, supporting local nutrition efforts. Your team established the IKANN network to facilitate professional networking of practitioners in the nutrition space, as well as developing a knowledge base for research in this field. Additionally, you successfully organised and delivered multiple editions of the International Summit on Nutrition and Health, which bring together global experts from ten regional networks across 65+ countries, offering a virtual platform for the exchange of practical insights and real-world applications.

More recently, we provided funding to characterise the UK Biobank, developing a comprehensive risk factor analysis using this rich dataset. This study has shown the public health benefit provided by the UK Biobank, and we look forward to seeing the academic publications that arise from it. Additionally, your team compared UK Biobank findings to other nutritional databases and resources, to provide a broader understanding of healthcare data in the UK and around the world.

By bringing together nutritionists, scientists, doctors, and insurance experts, we have shown the great benefits of a long-term collaboration. As our partnership has now come to an end, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your whole team for all your work with us on this important analysis.

Dr Christoph Nabholz

On behalf of the Nutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health (NICHE), based at the School of Biomedical Sciences, Ulster University, we are delighted to provide this letter of support for NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health. In particular, we would like to acknowledge the significant contribution NNEdPro has made in the area of Nutrition education by way of the work they have undertaken to highlight and investigate some of the most urgent global nutrition research priorities over the past 15 years.

As one the largest Nutrition research groups in the UK and Ireland (and across Europe) we have been delighted to work closely with NNEdPro over this period to deliver high quality impactful research, aimed at improving the lives of others. Our research priorities are closely aligned which supports this strategic partnership and our joint annual Symposium provides the platform to share findings from our ongoing projects, and particularly those being led by our jointly supervised, international, professional PhD students. Priority research areas for our two centres include vascular health, polyphenol research as well as nutrition education and policy strategies aimed at improving public health.

We are delighted to note the significant progress made by NNEdPro since its inception, under the leadership of Professor Ray and wish continued success going forward.

Professor Mary Ward

As an affiliate member of SNEB for the past thirteen years, The Need for Nutrition Education Project (NNEdPro) has actively contributed to the Society's vision of advancing food and nutrition education research, practice, and policy that promotes equity and supports public and planetary health. NNEdPro contributions include:

Conducting educational webinars for SNEB members,
Sharing resources through SNEB newsletters and listserv,
Exchanging ideas and information with SNEB International Conference attendees through abstract presentations, conference sessions, receptions,
Serving on the planning committee for the 2023 Conference, bringing an international perspective to all aspects of the programming,
Hosting SNEB members at the NNEdPro International Summit and Summer School, and
Encouraging collaboration through reciprocal membership between the Society and the International Academy of Nutrition Educators (IANE).

Congratulations to NNEdPro on 15 years of nutrition education, research and innovation. NNEdPro and SNEB both recognize the importance of building connections and sharing resources with nutrition educators around the world, and we look forward to continuing to work toward our shared vision of healthy communities.

Rachel Daeger

Congratulations NNEdPro on an amazing 15 years of leadership in advancing nutrition education across the globe. Monash Nutrition (also known as The Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food at Monash University) has worked closely with NNEdPro over the last 5 years, having formed a strategic collaborative partnership with NNEdPro in 2018.

We are proud to have been able to collaborate on providing education support to nutrition educators, primarily through providing a pathway to IANE membership and through active participation in the NNEdPro Australia and New Zealand Regional Network.

We look forward to continuing to work together to strongly advocate for increased awareness of the importance of nutrition strategies as part of routine medical care and healthcare.

Melissa Adamski

The work that NNEdPro does in bringing people together across disciplines and across borders is needed now more than ever.

In particular the initiatives to tackle malnutrition in developing countries, but also the work to highlight the burden of obesity-related diseases in the developed world, and the development of coordinated strategies to tackle these through nutrition.

The key to all these is education, and I am delighted that this is also at the heart of NNEdPro; education delivered directly to vulnerable communities but also nutrition education of our clinical professionals, an area that has been consistently neglected and uncoordinated.

I am proud and honoured to be part of this community and am confident that NNEdPro will continue to be bringing innovative evidence-based solutions.

Dr Maria Traka

This letter is a formal endorsement of NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health.

In my role as a research associate in socio-economy and rural development at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (HAFL), I have been a contributor and supporter of NNEdPro’s work for the past 3 years. I became Co-Lead of its Switzerland and Non-Mediterranean Network in 2022.

The international network that NNEdPro created 15 years ago, and continues to maintain, is compatible and complementary with the work we do at BFH-HAFL, particularly at the HAFL Hugo P. Cecchini Institute for International Cooperation and Development.

International food, nutrition, and health in developing and transition countries is one of the Institute’s core focal points. Sustainability and the importance of farm to fork as a driving force for food systems transformations are themes mutually shared.

As an expert in commodity value chains, I am thankful for the international connections and relationships NNedPro has created and am excited about the potential for future collaborations.

Providing a space for networking, knowledge management and knowledge transfer has benefited my work, and also the work of my students. I highly recommend NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health and their efforts to create a global network of professionals and institutions by fostering international collaboration.

Dr Ingrid Fromm

I am writing this letter in support of NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health as a key representative of one of NNEdPro’s strategic collaborative partners.

NNEdPro is a not-for-profit global and interdisciplinary think-tank and an independent research organisation which brings together over 700 voluntary contributors from among leading professionals in the field of nutrition and health spanning over 50 countries worldwide. We believe that everyone has the right to good nutrition. In addition to a world-class record across research and education impacts, including several hundred peer-reviewed publications, we also provide direct support to vulnerable families and communities on the ground through our multi-award-winning Mobile Teaching Kitchen International Initiative, whilst our educational programmes train frontline healthcare professionals as well as policymakers around the globe.  

NNEdPro’s goal is to improve nutrition-related health outcomes in line with the UNs’ Sustainable Development Goals and the Decade of Action on Nutrition. To accomplish this, they aim to provide the best of education, research, evaluation, and advocacy, particularly in nutrition-related aspects of health and food systems. With the support of those who share their values and goals, they aim to strengthen and promote international initiatives and exchange knowledge implementation of medical nutrition in practical settings.  

2023 marks nine continuous years of holding the NNEdPro annual International Summit on Nutrition and Health. NNEdPro intends to spend the next two years looking back at the last nine summits to see what has been achieved in terms of global consensus and draw out both the needs and solutions for the final two years of the UNs Decade of Action on Nutrition (which concludes in 2025).  

For these reasons, I strongly support NNEdPro and their current and future ventures. If you have any further questions about their qualifications, please do not hesitate to let me know.

Professor Eleanor Beck

I am writing this letter in support of NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health as a key representative of one of NNEdPro’s strategic collaborative partners.

NNEdPro is a not-for-profit global and interdisciplinary think-tank and an independent research organisation which brings together over 700 voluntary contributors from among leading professionals in the field of nutrition and health spanning over 50 countries worldwide. NNEdPro believes that everyone has the right to good nutrition. In addition to a world-class record across research and education impacts, including several hundred peer-reviewed publications, we also provide direct support to vulnerable families and communities on the ground through our multi-award-winning Mobile Teaching Kitchen International Initiative, whilst our educational programmes train frontline healthcare professionals as well as policymakers around the globe.

NNEdPro’s goal is to improve nutrition-related health outcomes in line with the UNs’ Sustainable Development Goals and the Decade of Action on Nutrition. To accomplish this, they aim to provide the best of education, research, evaluation, and advocacy, particularly in nutrition-related aspects of health and food systems. With the support of those who share their values and goals, they aim to strengthen and promote international initiatives and exchange knowledge implementation of medical nutrition in practical settings.

2023 marks nine continuous years of holding the NNEdPro annual International Summit on Nutrition and Health. NNEdPro intends to spend the next two years looking back at the last nine summits to see what has been achieved in terms of global consensus and draw out both the needs and solutions for the final two years of the UNs Decade of Action on Nutrition (which concludes in 2025).

For these reasons, I strongly support NNEdPro and their current and future ventures.

If you have any further questions about their qualifications, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Dr Laura Fernández Celemín

It is my very great pleasure, as a key representative of Modality Partnership, one of NNEdPro’s strategic collaborative partners, to support NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health as it prepares for the future.

NNEdPro is a not-for-profit global and interdisciplinary think-tank and an independent research organisation which brings together over 700 voluntary contributors from among leading professionals in the field of nutrition and health spanning over 50 countries worldwide. Like NNEdPro, Modality Partnership believes that everyone has the right to good nutrition. In addition to a world-class record across research and education impacts, including several hundred peer-reviewed publications, they provide direct support to vulnerable families and communities on the ground through their multi-award-winning Mobile Teaching Kitchen International Initiative, and their educational programmes train frontline healthcare professionals as well as policymakers around the globe.

NNEdPro’s goal is to improve nutrition-related health outcomes in line with the UNs’ Sustainable Development Goals and the Decade of Action on Nutrition. To accomplish this, they aim to provide the best of education, research, evaluation, and advocacy, particularly in nutrition-related aspects of health and food systems. With the support of those who share their values and goals, they aim to strengthen and promote international initiatives and exchange knowledge implementation of medical nutrition in practical settings.

2023 marks nine continuous years of holding the NNEdPro annual International Summit on Nutrition and Health. NNEdPro intends to spend the next two years looking back at the last nine summits to see what has been achieved in terms of global consensus and draw out both the needs and solutions for the final two years of the UNs Decade of Action on Nutrition (which concludes in 2025).

Modality Partnership have collaborated with NNEdPro on various projects including improving clinicians’ nutritional training and understanding causal factors in cardiometabolic risk. I am very happy to offer my support as NNEdPro enters its 16th year – and beyond.

Dr Vipan Bhardwaj

As Vice-Rector for Research and Technology Transfer at the University of Parma, I am very proud to support the NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, an organisation I have collaborated with for many years since its inception. I had the privilege to see it grow and, most of all, make many other people succeed with it. Collaborators, students, scientists, and recipients of the many training courses provided at every level could be considered the very reason this institution is so unique. Always science-based, always open-minded and always focused on real-life problems, the Global Institute is what every collaborative group working in the field of nutrition should be, creating knowledge and sharing and applying it where and when it’s most needed.

As the representative of one of the most prominent research institutions in the area of food science in my country and Europe, I am delighted to say that we should all consider the NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health an excellent example of nutrition research and practice at its best.

Professor Dan Del Rio

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