26/01/2014 - 3° World Congress on Public Health Nutrition, 9-12 November 2014, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Preprogramme

On 7-9 November 2014, Gambia will be hosting several pre-congress activities.
We will have the chance to know two global projects:

Presentation & Workshop at the:
Nutrition Without Borders Center for Nutrition Recovery and Education

Presentation & Workshop at:
The MRC International Nutrition Group Field Station

On Sunday 9 November, 2014  the III World Congress of Public Health Nutritionwill be officially open in the Palacio de Congresos de Canarias / Auditorio Alfredo Kraus and will take place until November 12.                   

 

Hot -Topics:  

Advancing International Public-Private Partnerships for Health, Nutrition and Well being
Strengthening and harmonizing capacities in community nutrition
Epidemiology and Obesity Prevention. What can we learn from numbers?
Diet, Nutrition and Cognitive Decline
Corporative responsibilities in Community Nutrition
The economic crisis and the Food Security
New Technologies and Nutrition Education
How to Reach Minority and Other Special Target Groups
Food, Nutrition and Culture: Diversity or Globalization?
Functional Foods and Beverages. Defining Use and Misuse
Sustainability of food systems across the world
Nutrition as a cultural process: The Mediterranean way
Biodiversity and Food Security
Enhancing capacity and competencies to address the existing nutritional gaps in communities
How to finance nutrition international cooperation globally?
Botanicals and supplements: Science or tradition?
Nutrition and Food Security: Successes and Emerging Challenges
The Millennium Development Goals
Future Directions on Hydration Research
Meal composition and health: The dessert
Nutrition Information: Communicating Risks and Benefits
Community Nutrition Programmes: Successful interventions at scale
Salt reduction policies and iodine defficiency disorders prevention
Breast feeding and nutrition transition
Sugar reduction policies and vitamin A deficiency prevention
Stunting and growth
Nutrition and infection: Recent developments
Food based dietary guidelines versus supplementation
Nutritional Epigenetics, Health promotion and life cycle
Nanotechnology food and public health: Strenghts and weaknesses
Dietary guidelines for Sustainable diets, based on ecological as well as nutritional science
Differences in the Approaches to Obesity Prevention in different Cultural Environments
Sustainable Ecological Approach to Undernutrition
Nutrition-sensitive agriculture
Indigenous foods, biodiversity and nutrition

International Executive Committee

Lluis Serra Majem 
Javier Aranceta
Rekia Belahsen
Elliot Berry
Benjamín Caballero
Sandro Dernini
María Nieves García Casal
Ángel Gil
Manuel Hernández Triana
Armando Pérez-Cueto
Carmen Pérez-Rodrigo
Andrew M. Prentice
Noel Solomon
Walter Willet

International Scientific Committee