Below is an archive of the seminar schedules from quarters prior to when filming begain (Fall 2013 and earlier).
Spring 2012 Seminar Schedule
4/4/2012
Dr. Sandra Huffman
Research Nutritionist, Department of Nutrition, UC Davis
"Developing Formulations for Micronutrient Supplements/Home Fortificants for Adolescents and Women of Reproductive Age in Developing Countries"
4/11/2012
Dr. Chris Dunford
Senior Research Fellow, Freedom from Hunger
"Integrating Microfinance and Health/Nutrition Strategies: Examining the Evidence to Inform Policy and Practice"
4/18/2012
Dr. Chris Golden
Environmental Fellow, Harvard University, and UC Berkeley
"Examining Links Between Wildlife Consumption and Human Nutrition"
4/25/12
Mathew Hamilton
Ph.D. Student, Department of Ecology, UC Davis
"Spatial Patterns in the Cost of Access to Health Care in Rural Malawi"
5/2/2012
Dr. Jane Heinig
Director, Human Lactation Center, UC Davis
"Scaling Up a Childhood Obesity Prevention Program Targeted During Infancy"
5/9/2012
Dr. Patricia Kariger
Research Specialist, School of Public Health, UC Davis
- "Measuring Early Child Development and the Household Environment in Large Surveys"
- "Early Child Development and SES Gradients in Four Countries"
5/16/2012
Dr. Ken Brown
Professor, Department of Nutrition, UC Davis
"Effects of Vitamin A Intake and Intermittent Supplementation on Risk of Excessive Hepatic Vitamin A: Simulations Based on Whole Body Kinetics"
5/23/2012
Dr. Chris Dunford
Senior Research Fellow, Freedom from Hunger
"African Savings Groups as Points of Service for Health and Nutrition Interventions"
5/30/2012
Dr. Sonja Hess
Associate Research Nutritionist, Department of Nutrition, UC Davis
"Results of Fortification Rapid Assessment Tool (FRAT) Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa and Suggestions for Future Modifications of the Survey Instrument"
6/6/2012
Student's Choice
Pizza
Winter 2012 Seminar Schedule
1/11/2012
Dr. Lia C. H. Fernald
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, School of Public Health
"Child Development Programs in Low-Income Countries: Preschool, Parenting and Poverty Alleviation"
1/18/2012
Dr. Steve Vosti
Associate Adjunct Professor, UC Davis, Deptartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics
"Socioeconomic Research in the iLiNS Project: An Overview and Selected Preliminary Results"
1/25/2012
Lacey Baldiviez
Graduate Student in Nutritional Biology, UC Davis
"Aflatoxins and Growth Impairment"
2/1/2012
Dr. Jonathan Siekmann
Senior Associate at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
"(GAIN) Improving Infant and Young Child Nutrition Through Codex Alimentarius"
2/8/2012
Dr. Jessica Jones-Smith
Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF/UC Berkeley
"Socioeconomic Position and Overweight: Examining Relationships Across Time and Place"
2/15/2012
Katie Pittenger Adams
Graduate Student in Agricultural and Resource Economics
"Using Experimental Auctions to Estimate Willingness to Pay for a New Maternal Nutrient Supplement in Ghana"
2/22/2012
Dr. Kay Dewey
Professor and Director, Program in International & Community Nutrition
"An Overview of the Breast Milk, Gut Microbiome and Immunity (BMMI) Project"
2/29/2012
Joe Cummins
Graduate Student in Agricultural and Resource Economics
"The Use and Misuse of Height-for-Age in the Demographic and Health Surveys"
3/7/2012
Dr. Christine Stewart
Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition
"An Overview of the WASH Benefits Project"
3/14/2012
Brietta Oaks
Graduate Student in Nutritional Biology
"Fish Consumption, Erythrocyte Fatty Acids, and Preterm Birth"
Fall 2011 Seminar Schedule
9/28/2011
Christine Stewart, Lindsay Allen, Ken Brown
PICN Faculty
"Overview of PICN, Summary of current research"
10/5/2011
Kay Dewey, Lucia Kaiser, Josh Miller, Bo Lonnerdal
PICN Faculty
Summary of current research
10/12/2011
Charles Stephensen, Christine Stewart, TBA
PICN Faculty
Summary of current research
10/19/2011
Zeina Maalouf
"Infant Feeding and Obesity: Analysis of Relationships in the Mother-Infant Dyad"
10/26/2011
Moses Klevor
"Vitamin A supplements for preventing mortality, illness, and blindness in children aged under 5"
11/2/2011
Marjorie Haskell, Ken Brown
"Early experience with biofortification to control micronutrient deficiencies"
11/9/2011
Reina Engle-Stone
"Dietary intake and micronutrient status among women and children in Cameroon: results from a national survey"
11/16/2011
Lucia Kaiser
"Preventing childhood obesity in Mexican-American populations"
Spring 2011 Seminar Schedule
3/30/2011
Elizabeth Prado
Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Davis
"Maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation improves maternal and child cognition in undernourished mothers in Indonesia"
4/6/2011
Marjorie Haskell, Ph.D.
PICN Faculty
"A review of data on the bioavailability and conversion of B-carotene to vitamin A"
4/13/2011
Jane Heinig, Ph.D.
Deptartment of Nutrition & Executive Director of the UC Davis Human Lactation Center
"Starting Obesity Prevention in Infancy: the FitWIC Baby Behavior Study"
4/20/2011
Charles Stephensen, Ph.D.
Research Leader, WHNRC and Adjunct Faculty, Deptartment of Nutrition, PICN Faculty
"Postnatal vitamin A supplementation; update on WHO studies"
4/27/2011
Lindsay Allen, Ph.D.
Director, WHNRC and Research Professor, Deptartment of Nutrition, PICN Faculty
"Breast milk quality: a need for new studies?"
5/4/2011
Lindsay Allen, Ph.D.
Director, WHNRC and Research Professor, Deptartment of Nutrition, PICN Faculty
"The ENAM (animal source food) project in Ghana"
5/11/2011
Kathryn Dewey, Ph.D.
PICN Faculty
"The functional importance of essential fats and the target groups most at risk of inadequate intakes"
5/18/2011
Sandy Huffman, Ph.D.
Associate in AES, UC Davis
"Increasing attention to the need to improve essential fat intake among mothers and young children in developing countries"
5/25/2011
Nancy Keim, Ph.D.
Scientist, WHNRC and Adjunct faculty, Deptartment of Nutrition
"The 2010 US Dietary Guidelines"
6/1/2011
Student's Choice
Winter 2011 Seminar Schedule
1/5/2011
Kenneth H. Brown, M.D., Sonja Y. Hess, Ph.D.
PICN Faculty
Current research activities
1/12/2011
Lucia Kaiser, Ph.D.
PICN Faculty
"The Nutrition Transition in Samoan Populations"
1/19/2011
Kathryn Dewey, Ph.D., Bineti Vitta, Ph.D., Dan Mayers
PICN Faculty and researchers
"Overview of the Alive & Thrive Project"
1/26/2011
Emily York
PICN Graduate Student
Discussion of article: Zimmermann et al. "The effects of iron fortification on the gut microbiota in African children: a randomized controlled trial in Cote d’Ivoire." Am J Clin Nutr 2010;92:1406–15
2/2/2011
Anne Williams
PICN Graduate Studen
"An update on the update: infant feeding and HIV, changes from 2006 to 2010"
2/9/2011
Lacey Baldiviez
PICN Graduate Student
Discussion of article: "Hurrell R. Iron and malaria: absorption, efficacy and safety"
2/16/2011
Sonja Y. Hess, Ph.D.
PICN Faculty
"Situational analysis of infant and young child nutrition activities in the Sahel"
2/23/2011
Kassandra Harding
PICN Graduate Student
Discussion of article: Christian et al. "Prenatal Micronutrient Supplementation and Intellectual and Motor Function in Early School-aged Children in Nepal." JAMA. 2010;304(24):2716-2723
3/2/2011
Jane Heinig, Ph.D.
Deptartment of Nutrition & Executive Director of the UC Davis Human Lactation Center
"Starting Obesity Prevention in Infancy: the FitWIC Baby Behavior Study"
(Re-scheduled for Spring Quarter)
3/9/2011
Stephen Vosti, Ph.D., Matt Hamilton
PICN Faculty
"Use of GIS tools in the iLiNS Project"
Fall 2010 Seminar Schedule
9/29/2010
Kathryn G. Dewey, Ph.D., Lucia Kaiser, Ph.D., Charles B. Stephensen, Ph.D.
PICN Faculty
Introduction to PICN and summary of current research
10/6/2010
Stephen Vosti, Ph.D., Christine P. Stewart, Ph.D.
PICN Faculty
Summary of current research
10/13/2010
Joshua Miller, Ph.D., Lindsay H. Allen, Ph.D., Bo Lönnerdal, Ph.D.
PICN Faculty
Summary of current research
10/20/2010
Anne-Lise Bjorke Monsen, Ph.D.
"Cobalamin and iron status in Norwegian infants"
10/27/2010
Janet King, Ph.D.
"Nutritional interventions for pregnant women: a historical view"
11/3/2010
No seminar
11/10/2010
Bineti Vitta
PICN Graduate Student
"Causal directions in the relationship between perinatal depressive symptoms and breastfeeding"
11/17/2010
Lia Fernald, Ph.D., MBA
"Conditional cash transfer programs and child growth and development: evidence from Mexico and Ecuador"
11/24/2010
Marjorie Haskell, Ph.D., D’Ann Finley, Ph.D.
PICN Faculty
"The vitamin A debate: a discussion of two perspectives:
- Latham M. "The great vitamin A fiasco." [Commentary] World Nutrition, May 2010, 1, 1: 12-44. Obtainable at www.wphna.org
- Counterpoint TBA"
12/1/2010
Parke Wilde, Ph.D.
"Measuring Food Insecurity and Hunger During Hard Times: Trends and Methods"