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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.

Summer School 2018 alumni, Emily Fallon shares her story and what she’s been up to just one year after attending the Summer School I thoroughly enjoyed attending the NNEdPro summer school last year as not only did I learn all about nutrition, public health, and wellbeing from world-leading researchers and practitioners, and develop my networks in the area. I realised that my decision to become an Associate Nutritionist and study for a MSc Human Nutrition was definitely the right path. These were my initial take home messages from my summer school experience, but at almost one year later the summer school has opened doors and opportunities that I had never anticipated, and certainly were not included in my initial take homes. Since attending the 2018 NNEdPro summer events, I have enjoyed remaining an active part of the NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health. Staying involved one year on My journey started by being nominated to be a member of the Global Research, Education and Innovation Panel, where I am part of a multidisciplinary team of academics, nutritionists, dietitians, medics and a range of other healthcare professionals. We are committed to support projects and initiatives that promote global nutrition education. My involvements thus far have included participating in monthly teleconference meetings, providing written input to public health policy documents such as for the World Health Organisation, and promoting NNEdPro activities on social media. In extension, I am working in close collaboration with NNEdPro for my MSc research project where I am honoured to work with Professor Sumantra Ray, the founding director of NNEdPro, and Professor Susan Lanham-New, the head of department of nutritional sciences at the University of Surrey, as my supervisors. I aim to investigate the vitamin D knowledge, attitudes, and practice of UK practising doctors and nurses, with the purpose to inform public health initiatives and develop professional guidelines and education for healthcare professionals to improve vitamin D health and recommendation compliance. Furthermore, I hope that our research evidences the importance of harnessing medical and healthcare nutrition education for disease prevention. To share your thoughts and participate in the survey, please click here. I had the honour of piloting my research questionnaire at the British Medical Journal International Quality and Safety in Healthcare conference with NNEdPro. Through this I was grateful to become a part of the Nutrition Education Policy in Healthcare Practice executive project management committee. As a team we presented a nutrition education workshop to an international heterogenous audience of healthcare practitioners which we will deliver to 4 other locations throughout the UK in a roadshow which I am very excited to be a part of. My other responsibilities in this project have included providing feedback on the content for the nutrition workshop and offering written input for a UK parliamentary brief regarding the importance of nutrition education in medical practice and healthcare. To read the CN article about our pilot work in Glasgow click here. “I am very proud to represent NNEdPro and thoroughly enjoy working with and constantly learning from other inspiring individuals. The support that I have received from NNEdPro has been fantastic and the opportunities that the summer school has facilitated are remarkable. The NNEdPro summer events really kick-started my nutrition career and I look forward to what I hope is a rewarding career in public health nutrition and one that closely involves NNEdPro. @EmilyFallon__ #nnephelp #nutritioneducation #nnedprosummerschool #universityofsurrey #nutritionresearch #SummerSchool

Since my last update in March, we have been busy over April conducting membership surveys, an operations review, launching NEPHELP, preparing for summer events and preparing to form a UK Regional Network and Coalition of key organisations with a common vision around the implementation of Nutrition in health systems, as well as taking our first steps into Latin America! As part an internal membership refresh for 2019, we have contacted NNEdPro members in all categories to complete a short email survey. From May we expect to move forward with a fully involved membership for the remainder of the calendar year. If you have not done so already, please do respond the membership survey and do let us know your thoughts on attending / contributing to one or more of this year’s summer events. Also as part of an in-depth operations review we have determined that following our peak activity in July we will consolidate over August, followed by a 4-6 month period of resetting our programme areas and re-prioritising projects / initiatives within these. This transformation process will be informed by our internal Global Strategy Workshop on 10th July and will lead us into a new strategic plan with effect from March 2020. Alongside our housekeeping activities we have also launched the first episode of the NEPHELP (Nutrition Education Policy for Healthcare Practice) roadshow through our pilot at the BMJ conference in Glasgow and the first edition of Foundation Doctor training in Brighton. This will soon be followed by further episodes in four other areas of the NHS. We are also in the process of forming a UK Regional Network and Coalition of key organisations with a common vision around implementation of Nutrition in health systems, and further details will be announced at our Summit on 11th July. Preparations for our Summer Events in July are in full swing and we are also delighted to have launched our Membership Scheme of the International Academy of Nutrition Educators with a linked introductory e-learning package in Nutrition and Healthcare. Finally, for now, we are poised and ready for our entry to Latin America through key participation in the Bett Educar Expo as well as a series of associated educational events in Sao Paulo in mid-May which will officially launch the NNEdPro Network in Brazil. Very best wishes, Professor Sumantra (Shumone) Ray (NNEdPro Founding Chair and Executive Director) #NEPHELP #nutritioneducation #SumantraRay #UKNutrition

The 5th International NNEdPro Summit on Medical & Public Health Nutrition Education & Research is a leading annual international scientific meeting in nutrition research and scientific dialogue attracting delegates who are key opinion leaders in the field from all over the globe. Key international experts in their respected field will present their knowledge around the pressing theme of: Closing the Gap: Data-based Decisions in Food, Nutrition and Health Systems. Join the nutrition education and research community for a full day event taking place from 09:00am – 17:00pm followed by a mini-symposium and network reception at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. What to expect from the Summit 11 July 2019, 9:00-17:00, Homerton College, Cambridge The first half of the day will address a Global systems perspective on data driven decisions.Expect talks on NNEdPro and WHO’s nutrition capacity building architecture in health systems, to using data from the perspective of the Sight and Life programme, to insights from TIGR2ESS and the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition. The second half of the day will focus on using a data driven approach in medical and healthcare education. This will range from talks on medical nutrition education today, taking an interdisciplinary approach to medical and healthcare education, nutrition education and skills in the health service, clinicial self-care, to teaching students and health professionals the foundations and practice of nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics and data modelling. In addition to exciting talks and panel discussions there will be a Scientific Poster Session and Global Essay Competition Submit a Scientific Poster Session or participate in the Global Essay Competition Abstracts for scientific poster of original research are accepted by email to info@nnedpro.prg.uk. Max 250 words and email with the subject: Summit 2019 Poster Abstract. The deadline is 30th June. For the Global Essay Competition please email your solution focused submission of up to 1,500 words on the topic “Utilising the Sustainable Development Goals to curb malnutrition in all its forms by 2030” to info@nnedpro.org.uk with the subject line: 2019 Summit Essay Competition. Deadline by 30th June. The winners from the Scientific Poster Session and Global Essay Competition will be presented in Cambridge on 11th July during the International Summit. The Summit is held in close partnership with the official NNEdPro journal: BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health. #medicaleducation #WHO #nutritiondata #nutritioneducation #Homerton #GODAN #TIGR2ESS #nutritionandhealth #HomertonCollege #CambridgeUniversity

A family of passionate doctors dedicated to their practice, the DocX family from Belgium share their learning experience, and what brought them to the NNEdPro Summer School 2018 last year, their top takeaways, and why they would recommend it! What brought you to the Summer School as a family? Marie: I looked for interesting courses during summer that covered aspects of medicine and health, which are not discussed often in college. My university has a sort of ‘suggestion list’ for short mobility abroad. As quickly as I saw that we had the opportunity to join a course about nutrition, I thought this would be interesting for my dad, Johan and aunt, Lieve. They are both the most dedicated family doctors I know. I’m grateful to be this close with them; they give me a lot of advice and ideas about health and medicine: for example, the importance of diet, life style, listening to patients … in short, the love and life of a general practitioner. What are your Top 3 takeaways from the Summer School and the Summit? Takeaway one from Lieve: I was delighted to be able to join this course. We heard a lot of the importance of healthy life style. It was very interesting for me, as a general practitioner, to hear which evolutions and new discoveries in healthy diet are made and how to put it into practice. Takeaway two from Johan: I totally agree with my sister. In addition to this, it was good to learn more about how to critically appraise scientific articles and what’s behind all the outcomes: the research, the science, the physiologic mechanisms in the human body. I was also able to talk and discuss diet in medicine with some interesting speakers. It was very insightful. Takeaway three (and four) from Marie: My number one highlight of the summer school was meeting new people with the same interest. Joining these exceptional colleges together and having the opportunity to discuss them afterwards is a new and fun experience to me. It stimulates me to join more training like this. Another highlight of the summit after the summer school was hearing about Nutritank. It is an initiative of medical students for medical students in Great Britain to implement the importance of diet in our courses in Medical school. I’m looking forward to work together with them to reach this awareness in my country, Belgium as well. How has the summer school and school and summit benefited you and how will you utilise your knowledge? Johan: It definitely benefited us. I followed a lot of courses about nutrition and health, and I’m still learning new things. Hepcidine, to give an example… I’m now reading more about iron, the course triggered me to look for more evidence and discoveries of this micronutrient. Lieve: I’m happy to be able to apply more specifically my knowledge about healthy diet. We all know a little bit about ‘what is healthy for us’ but now, thanks to this course, I have a stronger basis of knowledge which gives me more confidence to give advice and discuss about healthy life styles with patients. Marie: As I said before, it triggers me to join more training like this. The summer school was an eye-opener, by which I mean that it really highlighted the importance of research and its application in practice. I’m really looking forward to do something with this knowledge. Would you recommend the experience to others? Marie: Yes, definitely! If you’re eager to learn about nutrition, health and its applications, implications; This is the right course. You meet a lot of lovely people with the same passion but all of different disciplines to learn even more about the different aspects on the same subject… The experience is unique. We want to thank the organisation of NNEdPro a lot. It gave us unique insights and brought us as a family even closer together, being able to citytrip and learn (both things we love to do) about a subject (nutrition applied to health and medicine) which is of great importance and interest to us. Thank you and we’ll keep in touch 😉 #Summit #Nutrition #nutritioneducation #education #nnedpro19 #CambridgeInstituteofContinuingEducation #SummerSchool #nnedpro10 #CambridgeICE #CambridgeUniversity