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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

It is an honour to share a letter of support for NNEdPro from Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Chairman of Cancer Research UK. Sir Leszek is a key opinion leader who has spanned leadership of the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the University of Cambridge. Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz Letter of Support Following our establishment in 2008 as a university-based project group, we had the fortune of being hosted in a MRC facility for several years, before being constituted as an independent education and research organisation. Our affiliations with the University of Cambridge, as well as other academic institutions including Ulster University, Imperial College London and Parma University, have enabled collaborative research and the delivery of our flagship educational courses. In addition, our alliances with specialist organisations – the British Dietetic Association, the British Medical Journal Group, Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition, Nutrition in Medicine, the Society for Nutrition Education and Behaviour and the LGC Group – enable translation of high quality research and access to core facilities and knowledge. As we head into our 10th anniversary year, we are thankful for these partnerships and collaborations which have enabled NNEdPro to become a Global Centre for Nutrition and Health.

Mobile Teaching Kitchens were launched in February 2018 We are pleased to provide an update on the significant progress made in moving the NNEdPro Teaching Kitchen in Kolkata forward over the last six months up to February 2018, as well as other exciting news from India! The latest project update covers: Pre-Launch Project Assessment Programmes Launch of Two Teaching Kitchen sites An Impact Acceleration Workshop Train-the-Trainers: Top-Up Training ‘See One-Do One-Teach One’ Teaching Kitchen Pilot Workshops in Urban slums Interactive Discussion – NNEdPro Teaching Kitchens: Next Steps & Sustainability Launch of the Mobile Teaching Kitchen for Health Read about I-KANN-25: A Case Study from India How to be a part of the #TeachingKitchensEmpower Project Launch of Flagship Project 6 – Impacting Wellbeing in Rural and Urban Communities Please click here to read more

Our January 2018 CN article is now available! This month, we discuss our Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Network: a collaboration between dietitians, doctors, academics, medical and healthcare educators, researchers, students and professional associations in the region, linked with the NNEdPro Global Centre in Cambridge, UK. Our article summarises the ANZ Network’s second regional workshop in Adelaide, Australia. Click here to read the full article #NNEdProAustralia #NNEdProANZ #CompleteNutrition #CN #NNEdProNewZealand

Read our December 2017 CN article, which discusses the International Knowledge Application Network in Nutrition Project 2025 (I-KANN 25). I-KANN 25 is a joint initiative of NNEdPro with the Global Open Data initiative for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), supported by the Laboratory of the Government Chemist (who manage the successful Food Authenticity Network: http://www.foodauthenticity.uk). I-KANN-25 will promulgate high quality, scalable nutrition education to achieve sustained impact in global healthcare systems. #LaboratoryoftheGovernmentChemist #FoodAuthenticityNetwork #CompleteNutrition #IKANN25 #LGCGroup #NNEdProIndia #GODAN #CN

Between 20th and 26th November 2017, NNEdPro Chairman Prof. Ray delivered lectures in Singapore,  Brunei and Australia. This was followed by a lecture on strategies to combat the global burden of malnutrition. At Deakin University, Prof. Ray joined NNEdPro senior collaborator Prof. Caryl Newson at a mini symposium looking at lifestyle medicine, nutrition and global challenges requiring inter-regional collaboration. Photographs from NNEdPro’s lecture series can be found on our twitter page. Please follow @NNEdPro for all future updates!

On 11th November, Wolfson College Cambridge Fine Arts Committee and the Need for Nutrition Education/Innovation Programme (NNEdPro), via its inter-disciplinary Global Centre for Nutrition and Health in Cambridge, held an event – Spices of South Asia: a seven decades’ trail. This was part of the exhibition Representing Partition: India and Pakistan at Wolfson College Cambridge. This programme as a whole was part of the University’s ‘India Unboxed’ series (which marked 70 years since India and Pakistan became independent sovereign nations) and ran alongside other exhibitions in University of Cambridge Museums and at the Centre of South Asian Studies. Through this event we aimed to promote public understanding of the shared cultural heritage between India and Pakistan as well as South Asia and Britain, using the medium of food, nutrition and spices to explore themes ranging from the arts and humanities through to science, health and society. The event started with opening remarks and discourse from Margaret Greeves (FRSA, Wolfson); Lord Richard Balfe (FRSS, NNEdPro); Lord Diljit Rana (MBE) and Professor Sadaf Farooqi (FMedSci) Lord Balfe, Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Friends of India, opened our Spices of South Asia event Lord Rana explained the importance of food in Indian culture, from offerings in temples to meals that build relationships with friends and family Prof. Farooqi gave the audience a reflection of how Pakistani and Indian food has become more familiar to the UK and how it has integrated into British cuisine over time. Panel 1: A Spice Trail from the Khyber Pass to the Sindh Valley and beyond Saeeda Ahmed MA – Spices of Pakistan and its frontiers Dr Minha Rajput-Ray – The Spice Journey across India, Africa and the seven seas Saeeda Ahmed, Director of Education Partnerships UK, described the spices used in Peshawar and how the meals in the UK differ to the typical food found of Pakistan Dr Minha Rajput-Ray (NNEdPro Medical Director) took listeners on a journey across India through the spice route. Her talk described foods and spices of Northern India and the magic of the pickle, before moving to Southern India and a movement to steaming over frying Panel 2: The Spice of Life: from food on our plates to nutrition and health Nikitah Ray, Rama Rajput and Urszula Sobanda – South Asian foods and spices in Britain today Schoolgirl Nikitah Ray talks about her special detective mission – finding new spices in Tesco! Urszula Sobanda discusses her incredible art projects, which helped introduce primary school children to spices Nikitah Ray and Rama Rajput discuss the many uses and benefits of Garam Masala Panel 3: Dr Glenys Jones with Professor Daniele Del Rio KC on  South Asian food, spices and human health Dr. Glenys Jones discusses how we can use spices instead of salt to add flavour to our food, to help reduce our salt intake and help lower our blood pressure NNEdPro Director Prof. Daniele Del Rio says that spices have potential health benefits but stronger research is needed The event also included a viewing of displays including artwork and NNEdPro’s Teaching Kitchens Initiative and South Asian Performing Arts including poetry and dance by Divya Ram Kumar and Colleagues. The programme closed with a viewing of Main India-Pakistan Exhibition The event was co-chaired by Cleo Roberts (Wolfson College Visiting Research Associate) and Professor Sumantra ‘Shumone’ Ray (Wolfson College Fellow)

Empowering communities through the power of nutrition education! This week we are pleased to announce that two NNEdPro teaching kitchens have been officially opened in the slums of Kolkata; empowering local communities through the power of nutrition education. These kitchens were launched with exciting live demonstrations of how the kitchens in Chetla and R G Kar Canal can be utilised by local communities to run cooking demonstrations, engage with the local communities to deliver health and malnutrition screenings and disease prevention sessions, as well as to distribute nutritionally balanced, locally prepared meals. All of which are ways NNEdPro, the teaching kitchens and their supporters can support the health, wellbeing and cognitive development of mothers and children in the local community and provide a safe haven within these urban slums and support the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The day after the launch of the teaching kitchens, Kolkata also saw over 80 stakeholders from Health, Academia, NGOs, Civil Society, Government and other key influencers come together with the combined aim of strengthening dialogues in the fields of education and nutrition to end malnutrition by 2025. Participants in this Impact Acceleration Workshop organised by the NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, Remedy Clinic Study Group and funded by the Economic & Social Research Council, sought to gain consensus around the role of nutrition education and teaching kitchens in empowering communities and the issues of food, faith and the goals of development. Reflecting on the events in Kolkata, NNEdPro’s Founding Chair, Prof Sumantra Ray said: “NNEdPro’s recent engagements efforts in Kolkata during October were fruitful; enabling us to set the foundations as well as plan the next steps for the Teaching Kitchens. The events highlighted a keen interest by participants from across the community in learning about nutrition and applying their knowledge as we work collectively to find solutions to the global challenge of malnutrition in all its forms. This project is part of wider cross-border initiative known as the International Knowledge Application Network in Nutrition 2025 (I-KANN-25) which is a joint project by NNEdPro, the Global Open Data for Agriculture & Nutrition (GODAN), The Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC) and others. We very much look forward to progressing with lots of exciting work in this area, so as to maximise our impact now and in the future.” #TeachingKitchensEmpower #NNEdPro17 The kitchens were launched the same week as we held an Impact Acceleration Workshop in Kolkata, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and supported by the University of Cambridge and Remedy Clinic Study Group.