UPCOMING EVENTS
April 3 - 4, 2013
Every Child's Potential: Integrating Nutrition, Health, and Psychosocial Interventions to Promote Early Childhood Development
This conference will investigate evidence about integrating interventions for optimal early childhood development. Speakers will discuss methods, timing, measurement, scaling up and other topics during interactive sessions with the audience.
Thursday, May 23, 2013 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Gluttony: Deconstructing Dinner
Whether it's mined from deep in the earth or grown on a farm, the ingredients in modern food have to come from somewhere. Join us as we learn just where some of the ingredients in your favorite snacks come from and just how combining certain elements can lead
to either a food fantasy or fatal fare! Part of the Science and the Seven Deadly Sins Series.
Thursday, June 6, 2013 | 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Capacity Building in Nutrition Science: Revisiting the Curricula for Medical Professionals
This conference aims to revisit the current nutrition curricula for health professionals and to explore how trainings can better provide the skills necessary for implementing the array of preventative and therapeutic nutrition interventions available.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 | 7:45 AM - 6:00 PM
Probiotics, Prebiotics, and the Host Microbiome: The Science of Translation
Explore research and policy strategies to translate scientific knowledge on the convergence of the microbiome, prebiotics, probiotics, and host physiology into nutritional and therapeutic applications for inflammation, obesity, diabetes, gastrointestinal disease,
and malnutrition.
*Register by Friday, April 5 for early-bird registration discounts!
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