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Prado and colleagues examine associations between maternal nutrition, maternal cognition, and caregiving in Malawi

November 04, 2017

Research Activities

Many pregnant women, especially first-time mothers, spend time learning new information about how to care for themselves during pregnancy and planning for caring for their newborn child. After giving birth, mothers are constantly trying to figure out the puzzle of what their infant is trying to communicate to them and how they can best care for their babies' needs. Mothers need optimal cognitive performance, such as the ability to focus and pay attention, memory, and reasoning to do this well, and adequate nutrient intake is necessary for the brain to perform these skills.

Prado appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition, launches TRELLIS Lab

September 13, 2017

Program News

Dr. Elizabeth Prado has been appointed a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and has launced a new website for TRELLIS (Translational Research in Early Life Learning for Impact at Scale) Lab.

Arram Noshirvan, Brenda Wu (center left and right) with collaborators

UCD medical students research birth prevalence of defects following fortification of wheat at Cameroon

July 13, 2017

Research Activities

Brenda Wu and Arram Noshirvan, medical students with the UC Davis School of Medicine, received Medical Student Research Fellowships to travel to Cameroon to work on a research study which aims to assess the change in birth prevalence of neural tube defects following fortification of wheat flour with folic acid.

Dr. Kathryn Dewey appointed to Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

July 05, 2017

Honors & Awards

The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine welcomes Dr. Kathryn Dewey for a three-year term starting from 2017 to 2020.

UC Davis World Food Center holds workshop on "Aligning the Food System to Meet Dietary Needs: Fruits and Vegetables"

June 26, 2017

Research Activities

The UC Davis World Food Center organized a workshop on "Aligning the Food System to Meet Dietary Needs: Fruits and Vegetables," on June 2-3, 2017, at the UC Davis Conference Center in collaboration with the Program in International and Community Nutrition and the Horticulture Innovation Lab.

Nutrition proposal has ‘transformative potential’ for Haiti: UC Davis team advises fortifying nation’s wheat supply

June 26, 2017

Research Activities

She aspires to provide nutritious food to every malnourished child; he wants to do so as efficiently as possible. Together, they and their UC Davis team and in-country collaborators have won global recognition for their proposals to help boost Haiti out of poverty. Agricultural economist Stephen Vosti, nutritionist Reina Engle-Stone and their colleagues weighed the benefits and costs of five nutrition-focused interventions to address the dismal conditions in the tiny Caribbean nation, hampered by ineffective development policies and buffeted by devastating hurricanes that have hindered recovery from an even more deadly 2010 earthquake.

Kenneth Brown receives Robert Suskind and Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Pediatric Nutrition Lifetime Achievement Award

May 04, 2017

Honors & Awards

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Kenneth Brown received the “Robert Suskind and Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Pediatric Nutrition Lifetime Achievement Award” from the American Society for Nutrition at Experimental Biology 2017 in Chicago. The award recognizes a researcher whose lifetime body of work includes meaningful contributions towards childhood nutrition in health and disease globally.

Dewey, Matias, and Mridha publish articles showing that children get physical and intellectual boost from lipid-based nutrient supplements

March 14, 2017

Research Activities

Moms and dads caught in the frenzy of raising little ones probably don't realize it, but the first 1,000 days of their children's lives truly are "golden" - precious, that is, in their implications for future growth and development.

Reina Engle-Stone helping to improve health in developing countries with flour and oil

February 24, 2017

Research Activities

Reina Engle-Stone was halfway through her biology degree at Cornell University when she discovered global nutrition. Her introduction was a nutritional epidemiology class, and almost immediately she was hooked. “You could take biology and apply it to other things. I thought, this is great, this is what I want to do,” she says.

Beth Prado lead author on paper showing impact of prenatal vitamins on cognitive development in children

February 22, 2017

Research Activities

For all the moms who obediently popped their prenatal vitamins during pregnancy while wondering if the supplements could actually benefit their babies, an international research group has the answer, and it’s a resounding “yes.”

Hanqi Luo wins best poster in the IC-FOODS conference

February 22, 2017

Honors & Awards

Hanqi Luo, UC Davis PhD Candidate of PICN and Epidemiology, won the best poster and $500 in the IC-FOODS conference Data/Information/ Visualization at IC-Foods new International Conference + Consortium + Center for Food Ontology, Operability, Data and Semantics held Nov 7-9th, 2016 at UC Davis. Hanqi’s poster was titled “The Development of a Dietary Model to Predict the Effect of Micronutrient Interventions in Cameroon.”

Muzi Na wins 1st place in Elevator Pitch Contest

February 22, 2017

Honors & Awards

Muzi Na, a postdoctoral scholar at the PICN, won 1st place in the Elevator Pitch Contest on Micronutrient Innovation and Entrepreneurship, October 24, 2016. The Contest was held in Cancun, Mexico as part of the annual International Micronutrient Forum.

Lindsay Allen wins Mathile Institute Award for Career Achievement in Evidence Translation

February 22, 2017

Honors & Awards

The Micronutrient Forum Mathile Institute Award for Career Achievement in Evidence Translation was awarded to Dr. Lindsay Allen, USDA-ARS Director of the Western Human Nutrition Research Center (WHNRC) and Research Professor at UC Davis. The award was presented at the Micronutrient Forum global conference in Cancun, Mexico, 24 – 28 October 2016.

Carrie Waterman's research on Moringa featured on Huffington Post

March 11, 2016

Honors & Awards

Research on moringa by PICN seminar speaker Dr. Carrie Waterman was the focus of Amy Beaudreault’s Blog on the Huffington Post. Dr. Waterman is a National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Career Development Grant recipient at UC Davis.

Dr. Md Iqbal Hossain awarded the International Healthcare Award

March 10, 2016

Honors & Awards

Dr. Md Iqbal Hossain, an alumni of the Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology and the Program in International and Community Nutrition at UC Davis, has been awarded the International Healthcare Award. The award was presented in a recently held International Conference on Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatobiliary Transplant and Nutrition, February 11-14, 2016 in Jaipur, India.