Spring 2017
4/5/17
Carrie Waterman
Assistant Researcher, Dept. of Nutrition, UC Davis
Moringa Project Update: From Communities to Commercial Products
Seminar Video
4/12/17
Jody Miller
Assistant Visiting Project Scientist, Dept. of Nutrition, UC Davis
Seminar Video
4/19/17
Ameer Taha
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis
Quantitative methods to address whole body docosahexaenoic acid requirements in relation to liver synthesis-secretion rates
4/26/17
Cancelled - No Seminar
5/3/17
Angela Zivkovic
Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition, UC Davis
Milk composition is associated with growth and morbidity outcomes via the gut microbiota in Gambian infants
Seminar Video
5/10/17
Nazmul Huda
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Nutrition, UC Davis
Infant stool microbiota at the time of vaccination, at 6 weeks of age, is associated with vaccines responses measured at 2 years of age
5/17/17
Wendi Gosliner
Director, Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Research and Evaluation Unit, Nutrition Policy Institute, UC Davis
Improving community nutrition in the United States: opportunities and challenges of current national investments
Seminar Video
5/24/17
Jane Heinig
Academic Administrator, Department of Nutrition, and Director & International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Human Lactation Center, UC Davis
Mothers’ Minds: Understanding and Influencing Toddler Feeding Decisions in Low-income US Women
5/31/17
Christine Stewart
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, UC Davis
Professor and Engineer, Dept. of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis
Breastfeeding practice reporting bias in a randomized controlled trial of infant and young child feeding messages in Kenya
6/7/17
Pizza and discussion
Winter 2017
1/11/17
Christine McDonald
Assistant Scientist & Deputy Director, IZiNCG, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
Gut biomarkers and child growth in the context of EED in Tanzania
Seminar Video
1/18/17
Julian Alston
Distinguished Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
Linkages between US Farm policy and obesity trends
Seminar Video
1/25/17
David Killilea
Staff Scientist, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
Strategies for Assessing Biomarkers of Zinc Status: Application of Dried Blood Spots
Seminar Video
2/1/17
Jesse Anttila-Hughes
Assistant Professor, Economics, University of San Francisco
Did Nestle's introduction of infant formula into low- and middle-income countries raise infant mortality?
2/8/17
Christine Stewart
PICN Faculty Member, UC Davis
WASH Benefits Child Development Results
2/15/17
Travis Lybbert
Professor, UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics
Parental Perceptions of Child Growth Outcomes from the iLiNS Burkina Faso Trial
Seminar Video
2/22/17
Elizabeth Prado
PICN Faculty Member, UC Davis
Integrating Nutrition and Child Development Interventions
3/1/17
Lia Fernald
Associate Professor, Publich Health Nutrition, Community Health & Human Development, UC Berkeley
Promoting early child development through nurturing care: An overview of the 2016 Lancet series on Early Child Development
3/8/17
Sophie Moore
Senior Lecturer, King's College, London, United Kingdom
Early life nutritional programming of health and disease in The Gambia
Seminar Video
3/15/17
Kendra Byrd
Postdoctoral Scholar, Nutrition Department, UC Davis
The impact of a nutrition intervention on infant and young child feeding practices in Kenyan infants, and the associations between hemoglobinopathies, environmental enteropathy, and hepcidin concentration in Kenyan and Bangladeshi children
Fall 2016
9/21/16
Christine Stewart, Reina Engle-Stone, Kay Dewey
Research Overviews by PICN Faculty
(seminar not recorded)
9/28/2016
Charles Stephensen, Carrie Waterman
Research Overviews by PICN Faculty
(seminar not recorded)
10/5/2016
Shawn Baker
Director of Nutrition Team, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Reflections on getting to SDG2
Location change: WHNRC Conference Room
Seminar Video
10/12/2016
Sonja Hess, Ryan Wessells, Steve Vosti
Research Overviews by PICN Faculty
(Video to be posted after seminar)
10/19/2016
Reina Engle-Stone and Susana Matias
- Predictors of anemia among women and preschool children in settings with varying burdens of infectious disease
- Prenatal and postnatal supplementation with lipid-based nutrient supplements reduced anemia and iron deficiency in young Bangladeshi children
Seminar Video (Matias talk only)
10/26/16
Andrew Machado
NIH Fogarty Fellow, Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Nutrition
Chronic disease outcomes after severe acute malnutrition in Malawian children (ChroSAM): a cohort study
11/2/2016
Laura Dick and Steve Vosti
Laura Dick, Ph.D. Student, UC Davis Agriculture & Resource Economics and Steve Vosti, UC Davis PICN Faculty
Market Characteristics and Child Health in Rural Burkina Faso: Preliminary Results and their Policy Implications
11/9/2016
Ken Brown
Professor Emeritus, UC Davis, and Senior Program Officer & Initiative Lead, Nutrition, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Title of talk TBD
11/16/2016
Steve Vosti and Katie Adams
UC Davis PICN Faculty
Cost of Hunger in Ghana: An Assessment of Methodologies and Assumptions
11/23/2016
Muzi Na, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Nutrition
Combining Intensive Counseling by Frontline Workers with a Nationwide Mass Media Campaign Has Large Differential Impacts on Complementary Feeding Practices but Not on Child Growth: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation in Bangladesh
11/30/16
Christine Stewart
Associate Professor, Dept. of Nutrition, PICN Faculty
The impact of water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition on child growth and health outcomes: Results from the WASH Benefits trial