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“Nutrition is the next big thing for health systems” – From the 4th Annual Meeting of the NNEdPro ANZ Regional Network Newcastle, December 2019 Written by Breana Lepre Digital support by Michael McGirr and Matheus Abrantes Edited by Eleanor Beck, Jennifer Crowley, Melissa Adamski and Sumantra Ray Check out some photos over the duration of our stay. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nnedpro/albums/72157712045452388 On 2nd December 2019, NNEdPro, the Global Centre for Nutrition and Health, in partnership with the Nutrition Society of Australia and BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health, held the 4th annual meeting of the ANZ NNEdPro Regional Network at the University of Newcastle, Australia. The meeting was well attended by over 30 dietitians, nutritionists, geneticists, medical practitioners, academics and representatives from health and professional associations including the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine. Titled “Advocacy, Implementation & Application”, the workshop aimed to update new and existing members of the NNEdPro ANZ Regional Network of the important work being done to strengthen the nutrition-related capacity of the healthcare workforce within the region and beyond. The focus of the workshop was on nutrition competencies for all health professionals, including methodologies for the development of competency standards. Examples from different professional organisations and existing nutrition competency standards and strategies were shared as case studies for adoption. The opening remarks were delivered by ANZ NNEdPro steering committee member, Professor Caryl Nowson, from Deakin University and Professor Sumantra Ray, Founding Chair and Executive Director of NNEdPro. Following the opening remarks, an interdisciplinary range of experts presented their knowledge on what health professionals may be able to deliver to improve health, given the opportunities. Methodologies on existing nutrition competencies for medicine, nutrition scientists and dietitians were all discussed (Robyn Perlstein, A/Prof Susan Torres and Professor Eleanor Beck). Dr Michelle Reiss, a general practitioner focusing on healthy lifestyle discussed the simple messages that may be required for individuals. Professor Jane Conway described the difficulties for nurses in being the “doer” in all aspects of patient care and encouraged the audience to consider the realities of practice when promoting nutrition competencies for health professionals. Finally, Dr Emma Beckett challenged us to consider the practice versus the promise for nutrition and diet and genetics. Dr Jennifer Crowley drew us back to consider the current status of nutrition education for medicine and how best to advocate for, implement and promote nutrition education in health professionals. This provided the perfect segue to the latter part of the workshop, where attendees were divided into smaller groups for discussion. Stimulative discussion groups were facilitated by A/Prof Lauren Ball, from Griffith University, and Professor Clare Wall, from Auckland University on Nutrition in Medical Education for 2020-2025. The provocative discussion focused on strategic advocacy for nutrition in health systems – a top-down approach to integrating nutrition in medical education in Australia and New Zealand and on activities required to achieve the NNEdPro vision of equitable, accessible and adequate nutrition education for all medical students and professionals. The discussion groups provided a platform for inspiring discussion for a pathway for future impact in this space, such as a policy tool for more comprehensive integration of nutrition into ANZ medical schools. After the group activity, Professor Sumantra Ray presented a summary and future direction for the NNEdPro global strategy, from the WHO capacity building blueprint to interdisciplinary mobile teaching kitchens, an innovative intervention which has shown to be effective at improving students’ dietary behaviours and competency in nutrition counselling. There is a promising future for the status of nutrition in health systems, with attendees leaving the workshop with a renewed sense of vigour for the vision of NNEdPro, which seeks to improve the health of individuals, families and populations by weaving nutrition into medical and health care systems. We thank all new and existing ANZ NNEdPro Regional Network steering committee members and workshop attendees for their contributions and dedication. If you would like to know more about the ANZ NNEdPro Regional Network visit: https://www.nnedpro.org.uk/aus-nz . For information on the upcoming NNEdPro Summit or Summer School 2020, held in Homerton College at the University of Cambridge in July 2020, please visit: https://www.nnedpro.org.uk/upcoming-events.

Brighton, 6th November 2019 By Marjorie Lima do Vale and Jorgen Johnsen Edited by Dr Kathy Martyn and Prof Sumantra Ray Acknowledgements: Elaine MacAninch, Dr Minha Rajput-Ray, Nikitah and Matheus Abrantes Malnutrition, in its many forms, negatively impacts individuals, families and communities as well as posing significant challenges to healthcare systems. The NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition is committed to making a key contribution towards the global campaign to end malnutrition by 2030, in line with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals agenda and UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025), by addressing nutritional inequities while undertaking good quality research and training professionals in nutrition and health. This complex set of tasks, however, it's not meant to be taken by no one single organization, it requires collaboration across different sectors in society. On November 6th, ERimNN (Education and Research in medical Nutrition Network) in collaboration with NNEdPro Culinary Medicine and Nutritank, organised the 1st NNEdPro UK Regional Network meeting and the 2nd Brighton Nutrition Showcase. The meeting took place in Brighton, UK and brought together individuals and organisations across the UK to present exemplary initiatives on nutrition and foster future collaborations. The event served as the official launch of the NNEdPro Regional Network of UK and Ireland, the annual meeting for which will be held in Brighton. In addition, there will be section meetings in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The network will host the Nutrition Implementation Coalition, which is a strategic alliance between NNEdPro, ERimNN, Nutritank and Culinary Medicine UK and was also officially announced at the event. For further information about the coalition click here. The network meeting incorporated ERimNN’s 2nd Brighton Nutrition Showcase hosted at the Brighton and Sussex Medical school (BSMS) and supported by the University of Brighton and NNEdPro. The night started with the presentation of the programme ‘An Apple a Day’, led by medical students at BSMS. As part of the programme, medical students deliver nutrition lessons to 11-12y olds in a local school. Medical students that participate in the programme not only become more knowledgeable and skilled in nutrition topics, but most importantly, they get a chance to empower adolescents to make healthier decisions in terms of eating. The initiative is mentored by ERimNN and NNEdPro members Elaine Macaninch (RD) and Kathy Martyn.(RN RNutr) and is supported by the University of Brighton Active Student volunteering scheme. There has been growing interest from medical students and the number of medical students engaged as mentors on the programme has grown from 4 to 15 since its conception. Another student led initiative presented in the showcase was Nutritank, a think tank originating in Bristol founded by Iain Broadley and Ally Jaffee and now present across 20 medical schools in the UK. Nutritank aims to increase nutrition and lifestyle education in the curriculum of medical students. Nutritank also collaborates with Culinary Medicine UK (CMUK). Elaine Macaninch explained more on the concept behind CMUK. This team is composed of multi-professionals including doctors, dietitians, chefs and psychologists. The aim is to teach the foundations of clinical nutrition to medical students and health professionals through a combination of online theoretical components and using the kitchen as a classroom, cooking eating and discussing food to build empathy and clinical communication skills to address the many barriers to making dietary change. Also to promote a multiprofessional approach to nutrition interventions sensitive to the needs of our patients, working across professional boundaries but appreciating when to refer on to nutrition professionals such as dietitians. Dr Jenny Blythe from the Queen Mary University, then introduced the ‘Bags of Taste’ programme that also aims to improve nutritional medical education. Bags of Taste is a cooking and dietary behaviour change model located at 11 local boroughs in the UK. Medical students from the Queen Mary University of London participated in one of the culinary classes led by Bags of Taste. They learned not only about nutrition, but also about behaviour change theories and poverty and its complexities. Emily O'Brien, from the Brighton & Hove Food partnership, outlined the complexities of food poverty in Brighton and the city wide initiative that aims is to make healthy, sustainable and fair food available for all. Their food strategy plan for 2018-2023 has engaged almost 100 partners. One of their projects is a community kitchen where people can learn to cook on a budget. One of the discussions during the Q&A were the challenges in meeting deprived individuals and communities where they are currently in terms of resources and skills. Continuing the discussions around challenges in nutrition from the client/patient perspective, Heather Duff, shared her experiences in following a strict diet protocol, the paleo protocol, which was “a weird, wonderful and expensive experience”. Heather talked about the (un)feasibility and (un)sustainability of strict diets. In addition to the potential negative impact of such diets on individuals’ mental health. For her, being supported by a nutritionist was key in dealing with the plethora of information available. She also highlighted how difficult it was to discuss food and nutrition with her doctors. Sandeepa Soni, an oncology dietitian and Chris Smith, a paediatric dietitian, discussed their experiences and challenges in providing the best treatment for patients. Issues such as uncertainties in the face of emerging evidence and patient’s difficulties in keeping up with prescribed treatments were covered. As the last speaker, Prof Sumantra Ray, NNEdPro Founding Chair and Executive Director, outlined work to date and the future steps to of the Regional Network in supporting. The Nutrition Implementation Coalition will provide steering to the UK and Ireland Network, seeking to deliver on the main objectives of the regional network including the NEPHELP (Nutrition Education Policy for Healthcare Practice) and MTK (Mobile Teaching Kitchen) initiatives as well as providing key UK and Ireland inputs to I-KANN-25 (International Knowledge Application Network in Nutrition 2025) which joins together all of NNEdPro’s Regional Networks across the globe. The night ended with Nikitah, the NNEdPro Junior Ambassador, inviting all attendees to support the upcoming MTK fundraising event, ‘The Confluence’ which explores a new but important theme within NNEdPro pertaining to climate change, sustainability and food security. Check out the photos of the event

July 2019 saw NNEdPro strengthen ties with nutrition networks and leaders in the United States. Represented by Sumantra Ray, Shivani Bhat, Zubaida Qamar and Maria Korre, NNEdPro was at the Society for Nutrition Education and Behaviour (SNEB) Annual Conference in Orlando, USA from 26 to 30 July 2019 where they engaged with stakeholders and launched the US Regional Network as well as strengthened ties with SNEB through the joint-IANE membership program. With over 20 attendees, the US Regional Network was well attended by dietitians, community workers and researchers interested in international nutrition education and research which led to the development of several objectives that can tie US initiatives with the world and bring international initiatives to the US to improve and integrate nutrition in healthcare practice. NNEdPro is pleased to strengthen relationships with SNEB by contributing to initiatives via the Division of International Nutrition Education as well as via providing discounted membership to SNEB members to the IANE Scheme. Following a positive response to the new membership scheme, we are very pleased to announce that the IANE membership scheme will rolled out globally starting September 1st 2019. Check out the USA Regional Network page

Geneva, June 2019 The world today faces challenges from malnutrition in all its forms. One in three people are being directly affected by either underweight, micronutrient deficiencies or overweight, obesity and diet related non-communicable diseases. In fact, unhealthy diet is now the top risk factor for global deaths and is contributing to a vast number of people living with ill-health. However, nutrition capacity building among health personnel, who are often front runners in any given health systems, remains an under-prioritised issue. On 27th June, NNEdPro the Global Centre for Nutrition and Health, in collaboration with the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development (NHD), at the World Health Organization (WHO), organised an interactive training workshop on the importance of nutrition education at the WHO headquarter in Geneva, Switzerland. The workshop, titled ‘’Bringing Nutrition into Health Systems: From Global Training Architecture to Local Implementation Models’’, was aimed to provide the WHO interns, who are aspiring to be the future experts within their respected health fields, with the necessary nutrition knowledge and tools. The opening remarks were delivered by the Director of NHD, Dr Francesco Branca who was delighted to co-host the very useful and first of its kind nutrition workshop for all the WHO interns. Organised jointly with the WHO human resources team, the workshop was conducted by Professor Sumantra Ray and Jorgen Johnsen from NNEdPro as well as Lina Mahy and Niisojo Torto from WHO. During the presentation the interns received an overview on malnutrition in all its forms; how it manifests, its risk factors and how our food systems is transitioning and contributing to unhealthy diets. Furthermore, they were informed about the Global Nutrition and diet-related non-communicable disease targets, outcomes from the Second International Conference on Nutrition, nutrition’s role in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals agenda and the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (Nutrition Decade) 2016-2025. The objective was to inspire and encourage the interns to identify potential solutions to end malnutrition in all its forms, through the use of an interactive presentation. The majority of the interns at WHO did not have a nutritional background, however as most of them would likely end up in health policy, medical research and practice or other health related fields, it is potentially important for them to understand how nutrition can affect health outcomes and how intertwined nutrition really is in determining health policy. Further to the discussion, NNEdPro’s work as a global centre for nutrition and health was presented through NNEdPro’s four pillars: Training Professionals, Strengthening Research, Implementing Solutions and Addressing Inequalities. The mobile teaching kitchen model was presented and introduced as an action-research case study to be inspired by, and to think of how it could be modified and implemented in different geographical regions to help the interns with their brainstorming session. A key focus throughout the interactive presentations was nutrition education and training. This is not only a missing element in public health and healthcare professionals, but a vital solution to our global challenges of ending malnutrition by 2030. During the latter part of the workshop, the interns were divided into smaller groups where they identified a region or country of their choice, applying various aspects of the Mobile Teaching Kitchen Model and envisioning solutions to close existing nutritional gaps in those regions. After the group exercise/activity, the interns presented their ideas for a similar nutrition knowledge model and suggested sustainable practices across health systems to solve malnutrition. The session for the workshop was structured around the aforementioned malnutrition issues and what the Nutrition Decade (2016-2025) can achieve in terms of scaling up nutrition needs. The regions picked by the interns and discussed spanned Central America, Australia, China, Senegal and USA. Their target populations ranged from immigrants, indigenous populations, rural communities and children in urban areas. The main problems tackled were unhealthy diet or lack of nutritional knowledge. All of them focused on community-based solutions whether it was involvement in food preparation, community gardens or cooking fairs, as well as healthy carpool groceries for easy access after school hours. Overall the challenges they highlighted were legal issues, potential resentment, transient and hard to reach populations, lack of funding opportunities, and resource for implementation. The outcomes, on the other hand, were inspirational. The majority of them foresaw outcomes like empowerment/leadership, healthier populations, increased nutritional knowledge, and increased community engagement. And this was just a recap of the positive, solution-oriented atmosphere! A lot of good and innovative ideas were shared and could potentially have an impact if further built on and funded! What is next? Maybe another workshop next year? Or recurrently each year? Funding for one or more of the projects? Who knows with the next generation of engaging and enthusiastic health experts! Key Takeaways: · Strengthen nutrition knowledge, attitudes and practices amongst WHO interns; · Use the NNEdPro Mobile Teaching Kitchen model to inspire the interns to develop other models that may help contribute to lessen the malnutrition burden in different regions; · Enable a Global Public Health Interns Network. Written by Jorgen Torgerstuen Johnsen, Sucheta Mitra and edited by Sumantra Ray Among the first Global Public Health Interns Network members are: Alina Lack, Alyssa Palmquist, Ashley Moore, Cecily Wang, Florence Munro, Hannah Bergman, Juliette Mchardy, Karolina Zhukoff, Margherita Cina, Minjoung Shin, Nagouille Ndiaye, Neha Bhaskar, Neha Dhawan, Rachel Mathison, Rim Mouhaffel, Rishika Reddy, Sean Flannigan and Yu Zhang.

São Paulo, May 2019: This May NNEdPro visited São Paulo in Brasil for a series of very successful events, the highlight of which was launch of the Network in Brazil. The team was formed of Prof Sumantra Ray, Matheus Abrantes, Helena Trigueiro from the NNEdPro Virtual Core and had logistic support from Larissa Nicomedes, a Brazilian student. This visit to Brazil was prepared for 2 months in advance with a complex array of liaison activities to mobilise nutrition network contacts within the Brazil and São Paulo academic and practice communities. The challenge was to identify key individuals in the Brazilian Nutrition arena, understand common interest areas, and promote dialogue and debate related to current gaps, and how could NNEdPro might help address these. Our journey begun at the Bett Educar, a massive general educational expo where NNEdPro was represented for four days. This presence at Bett Educar allowed multiple contacts with very different entities of the Brazilian Education scene, but also with some Brazilian Nutrition Faculty who visited our stand. On the 18th of May we held our official launch event and roundtable hosted by FIA São Paulo Business School. This event was a meeting of 17 representatives carefully invited from multiple stakeholders, such as FIA, University of São Paulo (USP), São Camilo University, ASBRAN (Association of Brazilian Nutritionists) and independent public representatives with backgrounds in language translation and media/communications. This event was a great opportunity to witness interactions amongst these representatives. Everyone presented their goals, and we later ran a workshop to assess expressed needs and formalise clear objectives for the network. Furthermore, NNEdPro formally represented the new Global Nutrition, Health and Disease group at Ulster University led by Prof. Sumantra Ray. Day 7 started with a visit to the local health centre at University of São Paulo, where we visited the facilities and debated the importance of theses centres for the community. Prof. Sumantra and Helena Trigueiro then delivered an invited talk at University of São Paulo through formal adjunct appointments as International Visiting Professor and Lecturer respectively. Our journey through Brazilian Nutrition Academia didn’t end there: we finished the day at Centro Universitário São Camilo. We had a very warm reception and interesting discussion, followed by a tour of the amazing educational infrastructure that São Camilo has. Next day we returned to USP and had the opportunity to be part of a panel for impressive national interdisciplinary student initiatives, “Bandeira Científica” and “Jornadas Universitárias da Saúde”. These initiatives provide health coverage in difficult to reach areas of Brazil. We also learned about the projects USP is doing related to sustainability in the Diet, specially the Sustentarea Project. Finally we visited the principal teaching hospital and it’s clinical research facilities which is home to the famous Brazilian ELSA cohort in which we have been invited to advise the third cycle of nutrition data collection. NNEdPro knows that international networks in nutrition should be accessible to multiple stakeholders, so these days were filled with intersectoral conversations with different organisations. We aim to translate and disseminate evidence, allow the expansion of future working groups and endorse new international strategic partnerships, which are necessary. We have once again demonstrated NNEdPro’s ability to rapidly mobilise a ‘Global Knowledge Exchange Faculty’ and work with limited resources to bring forth a vibrant new network in previously unchartered territory. What is next for the Brazilian Network? We will be in touch with everyone involved and shape the future of this already active Network. Aims: • Strengthen the Brazilian Nutrition workforce; • Enable the Brazilian Nutrition workforce, with a positive impact in health professionals; • Pilot the NNEdPro Mobile Teaching Kitchen project – replicability at favelas or lower-income-areas; • Promote an Annual Regional Meeting. Written by Helena Trigueiro and edited by Sumantra Ray Click here to check out all the photos Check out the NNEdPro Brazil Network page

September CN article focuses on one of our favourite subjects – Teaching Kitchens! In this article, we present three different teaching kitchens from the UK, USA and India  and discuss their potential to teach participants about nutrition in addition to cooking skills. The first is Culinary Medicine UK – is a programme to help clinicians understand the role of cooking and food choice to meet health goals, which has had great success in US medical schools. Culinary Medicine UK ran their first programme with 16 doctors in February 2018. Faculty and students joined forces with chefs and experts in clinical nutrition to establish the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Teaching Kitchen in 2015. The Teaching Kitchen aim is to bridge the gap between learning about nutrition concepts in lectures and confidently applying food and diet related principles in practice. Also in 2015, NNEdPro established the innovative Mobile Teaching Kitchen to bring nutrition education to the urban slums of Kolkata with the aim of improving nutrition and health outcomes for the women of the slums, their children and their families. This month’s article was a collaborative effort between our colleagues Elaine MacAninch and Kathy Martin from Culinary Medicine UK and Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Shannon Wongvibulsin from Johns Hopkins University and Luke Buckner, NNEdPro’s Junior Doctor and Medical Student Representative co-lead. Our grateful thanks to all involved! Click here to view our September CN article Would you like to share your thoughts on this article? Please email info@nnedpro.org.uk – we’d love to hear your views! Can you help support NNEdPro’s Mobile Teaching Kitchen? All donations are welcome! Please visit: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/teachingkitchens

On the 26th November the Australia and New Zealand Network will be hosting a workshop exploring nutrition in Health Professional education. Being held at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) in Adelaide. The workshop aims to share experiences and current nutrition teaching activities in medicine, dentistry, nursing and allied health training and their feeder courses. The workshop is targeted towards educators involved with teaching nutrition in Universities at undergraduate and postgraduate levels with particular reference to those teaching students who may study medicine, dentistry, nursing and allied health. Attendance is free of charge, so if you are interested in registering to attend please email: robyn.perlstein@deakin.edu.au Workshop Programme and Invite

“We want a world with NO POVERTY” is the first statement you see on the United Nations Development Programme website. NNEdPro was one of the numerous UK Research Institutions/Organisations to receive the Global Challenges Research Fund award to function as an advisor to Ulster University and as co-investigator/joint work package lead with the University of Cambridge for 2 GCRF projects. Read about our projects in our lasted Complete Nutrition article: here.

This year, NNEdPro celebrated 5 years of projects in India in 3 regions: Kolkata, Delhi and Punjab. We engaged with Teaching Kitchen stakeholders in Kolkata to learn more, and took the model a step further launching the model in rural Punjab. We also conducted the first NNEdPro BMJ India Masterclass in Nutrition. 5 Year NNEdPro India Symposium, Kolkata Events started in Kolkata – the City where NNEdPro’s story in India began – on 22nd February. A 5 year Symposium was held with close stakeholders. The event saw a presentation of results from the urban slums mobile teaching kitchen project which showcased results and lessons learnt from the urban slums mobile teaching kitchen project along with a live taster from the Mobile Kitchen, with a purpose of defining the next steps. Watch NNEdPro’s 5 year video showcasing the journey of the Teaching Kitchen project which was shown across India this year. Thank you to our supporters (GODAN, BDA, BMA) and team on the ground (RCSG and Inner Wheel Club of Greater Kolkata) for helping NNEdPro to bring the project to life beyond our initial scope of imagination! Thank you also to those that have supporter the crowdfunding campaign thus far. To be a part of the Teaching Kitchen project, and support the micro-enterprise phase of the project, click here. BMJ India & NNEdPro Masterclass in Nutrition, Delhi On Sunday 24th February the team headed north, bringing #nutritioneducation to health practitioners and conducted the first BMJ India & NNEdPro Masterclass in Nutrition in Delhi to positive feedback. Global Food Security and Health Symposium: Mobile Teaching Kitchens Rural Adaptation, Sanghol And finally the team travelled further to Sanghol, Punhab on Monday to launch the mobile teaching kitchen model in a rural agricultural setting on Tuesday and Wednesday 26/27 February through a hands-on workshop held with members of the Inner Wheel Club of Greater Kolkata and a dietitian from Kolkata involved in the project. This workshop was held at Cordia Group of Educational Institutes in partnership with the TIGR2ESS project. View the flickr album from 5 years in India Detailed updates will be available soon #Nutrition #BMJ #CordiaGroup #MobileTeachingKitchens #BMJNPH #UniversityofCambridge #BMJNutritionPreventionHealth #TeachingKitchens #nutritioneducation #BMJNutrition #FoodSecurity #TIGR2ESS

Within the hospital setting, a third of people are undernourished on admission and often become malnourished during their hospital stay. This increases the risk of morbidity and mortality and on average increases length of stay by 3 days compared to those that are adequately nourished. Enhanced nutrition education has been perceived as paramount in the identification and treatment of malnutrition. Research by the NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health has established a large gap in nutrition understanding of medical practitioners but promisingly, a desire for more nutrition within medical education and greater clarity of a doctor’s role in nutrition care. “Nutrition is Everyone’s Business” As a result, NNEdPro have compiled a workshop aimed to educate Junior Doctors and health professionals promoting nutrition as “Everyone’s Business”. The innovative programme comprises of education regarding the history, science and future of nutrition, the relevance in healthcare, screening, assessment and management, as well as a focus on specific aspects of nutrition such as gastrointestinal health, refeeding and micronutrient function, in conjunction with overall application to a variety of clinical case examples. Feed for health – the Nutrition Education Policy for Healthcare Practice Training Package (NEPHELP) aims to facilitate the provision of nutrition education, focusing on the hospital setting. The workshop aims to equip participants to: Describe the common problems of nutritional care in hospitals and public health; Have an orientation to the use of appropriate screening tools to detect clinical malnutrition; Begin to discuss basic nutrition interventions, before appropriate onward referral to specialists where necessary; Understand the broader pathways of referral for nutrition services between primary and secondary care. Wednesday 1st May saw NEPHELP premier its’ first roadshow in Brighton. Close to 30 Foundation Doctors attended the session and found it interesting and useful. One of the requests was to produce more workshops in the future with the focus on the case studies and discussions around nutrition topics in the hospital settings. One of the local dietitians presented her work on improving outcomes through food and beverage services with hiring a new catering contract that effected the hospital residence positively with their food experience. Next up: 4 cities across England After a successful launch we are excited to continue the roadshow in 4 more cities in England throughout the summer! Next is London. #Nutrition #NEPHELP #FoodinMedicine #nutrition4all #nutritioneducation

April 2016: The field of nutritional research in low to middle income countries such as Morocco may be underfunded, but there is strong interest from researchers in moving forward. In April 2016, the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) capacity building initiative that took place in Morocco is a key first step towards mitigating this issue. As part of our Global Initiative, NNEdPro, in partnership with the British Council and representatives from other UK institutions, travelled to Morocco to deliver the SUN workshop, promoting education and capacity building in Africa. Please check out our CN Article for more information.

March 21st 2016, Perth One of the action points from the First International Summit on Medical Nutrition Education and Research, held in August 2015, was to establish a network in Australia and New Zealand with individuals who were interested in progressing medical/healthcare nutrition education and research ‘down under’. The Launch: As a result, we launched the Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) Network at the 2016 joint conference of the Ottawa and Australia New Zealand Association of Health Professional Educators, facilitated by Prof Caryl Nowson and Robyn Perlstein, Deakin University. The launch is an initiative of our Global Innovation Panel (GIP), led by Dr Lauren Ball (NHMRC/Griffith University) and Celia Laur (University of Waterloo) and supported by members of the ANZ NNEdPro Network Steering Committee, including Dr Helen McCarthy and A/Prof Gina Ambrosini. Key UK NNEdPro members, including Prof Sumantra Ray (Ex-Officio Co-Chair of the Network) and Pauline Douglas (NNEdPro Vice Chair), also travelled to Australia to support the launch. Please check out our CN Article for more information.