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On 13 March 2019, NNEdPro started a new chapter and opened its’ doors to a new home for nutrition education, research and innovation at the St. John’s Innovation Centre in Cambridge, following 10 years of accelerating activities and building communities in nutrition education, research and innovation. Thank you to Lord Balfe for doing the honours, and all the guests that dropped in to meet the team. NNEdPro is looking towards contributing to and engaging with the innovative and collaborative community at St. John’s Innovation Centre and other organisations in Cambridge in education, research, advocacy related to nutrition (and related) aspects of health and healthcare systems. Cambridge has a special place in NNEdPro’s heart, being it’s hub and home since inception. Cambridge enabled the organisation to grow its’ foundations as a think-tank including bringing nutrition into the Cambridge University medical curriculum and establishing the Nutrition Education Review / Research Interest Group (NERG). It has also been the home from where NNEdPro has built its’ innovative training academy including the Summer School in Applied Human Nutrition and the International Summit on Medical Nutrition Education and Research. NNEdPro recently launched the pilot phase of the International Academy of Nutrition Educators – a membership scheme in partnership with the Society of Nutrition Education and Behaviour (SNEB) and Monash University. From SJIC, NNEdPro will be providing bespoke consulting and will also be widening the scope of trainings in nutrition education. Contact us: info@nnedpro.org.uk or drop in to the office at: St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, UK – our doors are open! #Nutrition #cambridgeinnovation #cambridge #sjic #innovation #nutritioninnovation #nutritioneducation #nutritionresearch #stjohnsinnovationcentre

As two master’s level dietetic students, authors James Bradfield and Shane McAuliffe spend a significant proportion of their time reading academic papers, commentaries and editorials. They are encouraged to critically appraise this work and to engage with the scientific community wherever possible. For many students, this means via social media. Although one might expect the usual scientific rigour and respect usually found in the lab would be found online too, this is not always true. Click here to read James and Shane’s thoughts on the Online Diet Wars … “Never did we expect that it would be a platform which could hand you a direct line to some of the most well­-known and well­-respected clinicians and academics in our field. It was exciting to think we could engage in debate with some of the best minds in the business. However, we soon learned that this is not always the case. Was it naïve to assume that, although people in the field come from different backgrounds and areas of research, that they would put their differences aside to consider the bigger picture around coherent public messaging?” Read on to find out about the role of social media in diet and nutrition. Would you like to share your thoughts on this article or contribute to the next NNEdPro article in CN magazine? Please email info@nnedpro.org.uk #Nutrition #dietdebate #diet #onlinedietwar #dieteticstudents #CNarticle

The November 2018 CN article – The NNEdPro GODAN Partnership talks about bringing the worlds of agricultural and human nutrition together through a common culture in open data. In 2016, Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) held a summit in New York, following which a partnership was formalised with the NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health. This alliance brought together a wealth of knowledge in both open data and nutrition, to provide expertise and knowledge of opportunities and challenges across the food supply chain, and their impacts on the environment, health and wellbeing of society. Development of a Nutrition Open Data Strategy became a key collaborative focus and we are delighted to share some insights which we have gained over the past two years. We live in a data-­driven world where information is key in all walks of life, as it is in the case of nutrition and agriculture practitioners. By making data open and available to those who need it most, this partnership has the broad aim of helping progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, many of which are linked to nutrition. The development of the GODAN­-NNEdPro Nutrition Open Data Strategy aims to provide a method of making nutrition data openly available and accessible to everyone and adhering to data ethics procedures. NNEdPro’s International Knowledge Application Network in Nutrition Initiative 2025 (I­KANN­25) aims to achieve sustained impact in global healthcare systems by promulgating high quality and scaleable nutrition education. This is based on three pillars: The article was a collaborative effort written by James Bradfield, edited by Karen Chamberland and Prof Sumantra Ray with key contributions from Dr Glenys Jones, Ruthie Musker and Nida Ziaudeen. Special acknowledgements to Juliet Tumeo, Jennifer Dean, and Andre Laperriere. Would you like to share your thoughts on this article? Please email info@nnedpro.org.uk – we’d love to hear your views! #Nutrition #Agriculture #CompleteNutrition #OpenData #GODAN #CN

This months’ CN article – ‘Food Allergy Can be Fatal’ – aims to raise awareness around food allergy management in nutritional healthcare. The article is dedicated to the memory of 9 year old Nainika Tikoo, who was severely asthmatic and allergic to cows’ milk protein and had an undiagnosed allergy to blackberries. In 2017 she suffered from food-related anaphylaxis and passed away three days later as a result of multisystemic complications and possible cross contamination between berries and dairy, despite standard health service interventions at the time. We discuss care provided, gaps in care, the current state of play and what we can do going forward including what NNEdPro is doing to improve the awareness and education of health professionals. The article was a collaborative effort written by Shivani Bhat and Lakshmi Kaul (Nainika Tikoo Memorial Trust), and edited by James Bradfield and Prof Sumantra Ray. Would you like to share your thoughts on this article? Please email info@nnedpro.org.uk – we’d love to hear your views! For more information on the memorial trust that been set up in memory of Nainika, please visit: www.ntmt.co.uk For more information about our CMPA project, please email: info@nnedpro.org.uk #FoodAllergy #NainikaTikooMemorialTrust #CompleteNutrition #NainikaTikoo #CN

2018 is a special year for NNEdPro – it’s 10 years since our establishment as a university-based project in 2008!  We were subsequently hosted in a UK Medical Research Council facility for several years, before being constituted as an independent education and research organisation. From 2008 to 2018,  NNEdPro  evolved from a single project to a Global Centre for Nutrition and Health. Our work brings together several hundred individuals and a multitude of stakeholder organisations from across the globe who contribute to innovative research and education outputs. To mark the 10th-anniversary celebrations we reached out to stakeholders in the nutrition field, inviting them to join us in Cambridge for our Summit. We were honoured to receive letters of support for our 10th birthday from several of these organisations and individuals, which you can read below: The Lord Balfe of Dulwich, Honorary President of NNEdPro and the British Dietetic Association The Lord Rana MBE of Malone, Honorary Global Patron of NNEdPro Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Chairman Cancer Research UK & Vice-Chancellor Emeritus, University of Cambridge British Dietetic Association Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Cambridge University Health Partners Nutrition in Medicine Imperial College London Association for Nutrition Read about our work programmes, our team, our members and our highlights from the past decade.

This month’s CN article turns to the expertise of Kate Guberg, a nutritional biomarkers expert and NNEdPro representative, for a discussion of reference intervals. Click here to read the full article Reference intervals are one of the most common decision tools in nutrition. They give us a range of ‘typical values for the majority of a population group’ for a particular analyte – for example, the amount of vitamin B12 in our body – in a healthy adult, female population. Continuing to use vitamin B12 as an example, those with B12 levels below or above the reference interval may need an intervention, such as supplementation, to bring their levels back up into the ‘typical or normal’ range.’ The reference interval typically covers the values that would be expected to be seen in 95% of healthy individuals within the selected population group. In the article, Kate highlights that the process of determining these reference intervals is a complex process and talks us through the factors to consider when determining a reference interval. Have you registered to attend our Summit on 20th July? With Dr Fiona Godlee delivering the keynote, a packed programme, delegates from around the world and all set in the historic city of Cambridge – you don’t want to miss this! Register via our Eventbrite page

NNEdPro is pleased to present our Annual Nutrition Essay Competition! The subject that this year's essays must address ‘Strategies to develop international knowledge application networks in nutrition’ within a word limit of 2000 words. We welcome free-style essays from any discipline, and from all career stages including students! The deadline has been extended to 30th June 2018! Submit essays to info@nnedpro.org.uk with the email subject: Summit 18 Essay to be in with the chance of winning a prize. Winners of the essay competition will be announced at the 4th International SummiT

We were delighted to read a recent article from Wolfson College Cambridge, which highlights 10 years of NNEdPro. NNEdPro has strong connections with Wolfson: Prof Shumone Ray, NNEdPro Chair and Executive Director, is a Wolfson Fellow; Pauline Douglas, RD, NNEdPro Vice-Chair and Education Director, has been a Visiting Scholar and College Research Associate at Wolfson; Dr Minha Rajput-Ray, NNEdPro Medical Director, is a College Research Associate;  and Prof (Comm) Daniele Del Rio, NNEdPro Scientific Director, has also been a Visiting Scholar and Visiting Fellow at Wolfson. Many NNEdPro Members have also been part of an academic visitor scheme at Wolfson over 2015-17 and the Lord Balfe of Dulwich, NNEdPro Honorary President, is a Senior Member of Wolfson. As we reflect on the relationships and collaborations that have enabled NNEdPro to grow to a Global Centre for Nutrition and Health in our 10th year, we are especially grateful to Wolfson College Cambridge for hosting our Summer School in Applied Human Nutrition!

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), including stroke and coronary heart disease, are a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. In 2011,  the NNEdPro Chair’s Nutrition and Vascular Studies Platform at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Elsie Widdowson Laboratory (EWL) was established to begin addressing key knowledge gaps around the effect of lesser understood components of diet on cardiovascular risk. Join us in Cambridge on 20th July 2018 for our 4th International Summit on Medical and Public Health Nutrition Education and Research! The Summit will bring together experts from across the globe to strengthen and promote international initiatives and exchange knowledge on medical nutrition education and research. In 2018, we celebrate our 10th anniversary year and to mark this the theme of this year’s conference is Nutrition as a Hard Science. Email info@nnedpro.org.uk for more information. #medicaleducation #CompleteNutrition #NutritioninMedicine #nutritionresearch #CN

2018 marks our tenth anniversary year! Our new Complete Nutrition article in the April issue details our history, the collaborations and partnerships that have enabled us to become a Global Centre for Nutrition and Health, and our exciting summer events where we will officially mark our tenth birthday. Click here to read the full article – ‘A Decade of Laying Foundations’ We would be delighted to welcome you to our 4th International Summit on Medical and Public Health Nutrition Education and Research on 20th July 2018! #SocietyforNutritionEducationandEatingBehaviour #UniversityofWollongong #UniversityofWaterloo #FoodEntrepreneurs #LaboratoryoftheGovernmentChemist #BritishDieteticAssociation #ImperialCollegeLondon #BMJ #CordiaGroup #medicaleducation #RemedyClinic #CompleteNutrition #UniversityofParma #NutritioninMedicine #IKANN25 #LGCGroup #WolfsonCollege #UlsterUniversity #nutritioneducation #BBC #TeachingKitchens #BMJNutrition #BDA #nutritionresearch #GODAN #CN #SNEB #CambridgeUniversity

Doctor’s Orders: Getting Tomorrow’s Medics Cooking Professor Sumantra Ray, NNEdPro Chair, Dr Rangan Chatterjee (BBC One’s Doctor In The House), Dr Michael Mosley, (BBC Two’s Trust Me I’m a Doctor) and Dr Rupy Aujla (The Doctor’s Kitchen) recently took part in “Doctor’s Orders: Getting Tomorrow’s Medics Cooking” on the The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4 to discuss how something as simple as increasing the level of nutrition education available to tomorrow’s doctors and other health professionals could help deal with the shocking levels of lifestyle-related illnesses in the UK. Public Health England estimates that these illnesses cost £11 billion every year to treat – a devastating amount for our struggling NHS. In the programme, Professor Ray describes a decade of work which could soon see widespread training for trainee doctors, and the success that NNEdPro has already had with introducing clinical and public health nutrition training into Cambridge’s undergraduate medical curriculum. (photo credit: Getty images / BBC) Coverage of this programme: BBC News: We learn nothing about nutrition, claim medical students The Telegraph: GP training is outdated and needs to teach young doctors about nutrition, experts claim We’d be delighted to hear your views on this topic! Please email us at info@nnedpro.org.uk

Visit the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health website: https://nutrition.bmj.com/ Leading healthcare knowledge provider BMJ will launch BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health later this year in July 2018 at the 4th NNEdPro International Summit in Cambridge. Co-owned with the NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health, the journal is dedicated to publishing high quality, peer reviewed articles that focus on diet, exercise and healthcare technology on health and wellbeing. NNEdPro Founding Chair and Executive Director, Prof. Sumantra Ray, who is based in Cambridge, UK, says: “The creation of this landmark journal – BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health – comes at a pivotal time, particularly as the NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health have been working for the past decade to strengthen the translation potential of nutrition science for best practice.” He adds: “This journal will give nutrition and public health researchers the opportunity to ensure that a dynamic evidence base reaches both policy makers and practitioners. This will give patients and the wider public, the best possible chance of receiving quality-assured nutritional solutions to prevent and manage disease, as well as to improve health outcomes.” Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Martin Kohlmeier, is the director of the Human Research Core and the Nutrigenetics Laboratory at the University of North Carolina Nutrition Research Institute. He says the journal “will value contributions that advance practical and evidence-supported nutrition solutions for urgent health challenges.” He adds: “We want to hear what would be most useful for those that can translate new knowledge into better health for their communities. This will help to then engage with researchers and seek high-quality contributions responsive to the recognised priorities. We will not shy away from difficult topics, but will work hard to avoid the fad of the day.” Allison Lang, Publishing Director at BMJ, says: “We look forward to working with NNEdPro Global Centre and Prof. Kohlmeier and the nutrition community. As part of our commitment to helping make a healthier world, BMJ wants to bring its world-renowned focus on excellence in publication to this field of science in general.” Original Press Release available here: https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/bmj-to-launch-new-nutrition-journal/ END PR Enquiries: Ananya Roy: a.roy@nnedpro.org.uk Mhairi Brown: m.brown@nnedpro.org.uk NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health – Advancing and implementing nutrition knowledge to improve health, wellbeing and society. For more on our work, please visit www.nnedpro.org.uk BMJ is a healthcare knowledge provider that aims to advance healthcare worldwide by sharing knowledge and expertise to improve experiences, outcomes and value. For a full list of BMJ products and services, please visit www.bmj.com