The International and Community Nutrition weekly seminar is a forum to discuss new research and topics related to international and community nutrition. Seminars are held Wednesdays from 12:10-1:00 pm in the Foster Room (1138 Meyer Hall). They are open to the public and students may register for academic credit (NUT 291 section 1).
Videos of seminars will be posted after the event, as speakers allow. Seminars from previous academic years are available via the seminar Archives. This page will contain the current academic year of seminars (Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Spring 2017).
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