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Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development:
A Strategy for Large-Scale Action

Persistent malnutrition contributes not only to widespread failure to
meet the first Millennium Development Goal?to halve poverty and
hunger?but also to meet other goals related to maternal and child
health, HIV/AIDS, education, and gender equity.  Underweight prevalence
among children is the key indicator for measuring progress on nonincome
poverty, and malnutrition remains the world?s most serious health
problem?as well as the single largest contributor to child mortality.  
Nearly one-third of children in the developing world are underweight or
stunted, and more than 30 percent of the developing world's population
suffers from micronutrient deficiencies.  Moreover, new malnutrition
problems are emerging:  the epidemic of obesity and diet-related
noncommunicable diseases is spreading to the developing world, and
malnutrition is linked to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development:  A Strategy for
Large-Scale Action makes the case that development partners and
developing countries must increase investment in nutrition programs. 
This case is based on evidence that the scale of the problem is very
large and that nutrition interventions are essential for speeding
poverty reduction, have high benefit-cost ratios, and can improve
nutrition much faster than reliance on economic growth alone.  Moreover,
improved nutrition can drive economic growth.  The report proposes to
the international development community and national governments a
global strategy for accelerated action in nutrition.

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Chaired by:
Jean-Louis Sarbib
Senior Vice President/Head of Human Development Network, World Bank
Jean-Louis Sarbib is the Senior Vice President and Head of the Human
Development Network, and advises the Bank and its client countries on
innovative and integrated approaches to improving health, education, and
social protection with a view to helping meet the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) and to achieving the Bank?s mission of poverty reduction. 


Mr. Sarbib has championed a markedly increased World Bank role in
nutrition. Before becoming Senior Vice President
for Human Development in 2003, Mr. Sarbib served as the Bank's Vice
President for Operations for Sub-Saharan Africa and, later, for the
Middle East and North Africa.

Presentation by:
Meera Shekar Senior Nutrition Specialist, HNP/Human Development
Network, World Bank Meera Shekar, Senior Nutrition Specialist in the
Human Development Network of the World Bank has been leading this work
on Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development. Prior to joining
the Bank, she has lived and worked for UNICEF on health and nutrition
issues in Ethiopia, the Philippines, and Tanzania. Dr Shekar has also
worked extensively in India, Bangladesh and Vietnam.


Commentary by:
James Adams
Vice President, OPCS, World Bank
James Adams is the Vice President and Head of Network for the
Operations Policy and Country Services Network. Previously, Mr. Adams
was Country Director for Tanzania and Uganda, and has served in a number
of senior management positions in the Bank in East and West Africa,
Latin America and the Caribbean, and EastAsia and Pacific.

Richard Skolnik
Executive Director PEPFAR, Harvard School of Public Health
Richard Skolnik is the Executive Director of the President?s Emergency
Plan for AIDS Relief Program at the Harvard School of Public Health. 
Previously, Mr. Skolnik served as Director of the Center for Global
Health at George Washington University where he taught on global health.
 Mr. Skolnik also worked for the World Bank for 25 years, retiring as
the Director of the Bank's Health and Education program in South Asia,
and has extensive experience in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America,
and South Asia, with particular attention to nutrition in South Asia.

Marcia Griffiths
President, Manoff Group, Inc.
Marcia Griffiths is President of the Manoff Group, Inc., and has been a
key figure in international nutrition in researching and
operationalizing behavior change interventions targeted at pregnant
women, infants and young children.
The Manoff Group provides assistance in communications and
behavior-centered planning, management and evaluations for local
capacity building and institutionalizing expertise in  health,
nutrition, and population projects, serving at the forefront of social
marketing development.

Keith E. Hansen
Sector Manager, Health, Nutrition and Population, LAC, World Bank
Keith Hansen is the Sector Manager for the Health, Nutrition and
Population at the Latin America and the Caribbean region.  Mr. Hansen
has served in a number of managerial positions in the Bank, as well as
the key driving force in the Bank's response to HIV/AIDs as Head of
ACT-Africa.

Kei Kawabata
Sector Manager, HNP/Human Development Network, World Bank
Kei Kawabata joined the World Bank in 1984 as a Young Professional and
has held various positions within the Bank.  At present, Ms. Kawabata is
the Sector Manager for the Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Unit
in the Human Development Network (HDN) at the World Bank.  Ms. Kawabata
has also held senior positions at WHO where she managed programs related
to health systems development, management, and financing and at UNDP,
where she was the Executive
Officer in the Bureau of Special Activities.
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Monday, January 30 at 12:00 noon ? 1:30:00 pm
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 Presentation followed by a light lunch in the InfoShop
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