Dr. John Hoddinott, PhD
H.E. Babcock Professor of Food and Nutrition Economics and Policy
Division of Nutritional Sciences
Title: Constructing the investment case for nutrition: Progress and pitfalls

Date: December 4, 2025, 11:30am - 12:30pm ET

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Dr. Harold Alderman, PhD
Research Fellow Emeritus
International Food Policy Research Institute
Title: Two Perspectives on Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection

Cosponsored by the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University

Date: Note new date and start time Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 11:45am - 12:45pm ET

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Dr. Shibani Ghosh, PhD
Associate Professor
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University
Title: Program and policy action to achieve SDG 2 and the Global Nutrition Targets

Date: October 23, 2025, 11:30am - 12:30pm ET

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Join us for presentations by the College of Human Ecology Public Health and Nutrition Ambassadors, as they share work to inform global guidelines.

Lindower-Wolitzer DNS Experiential Learning Symposium
Olivia Kornstein ‘26: “Diet therapy for the management of obesity in children and adolescents”
Mia Marcotte ‘26: “Defining hemoglobin cutoffs to diagnose anemia”
Esha Shakthy ‘25: Infant formula variations and the gut microbiome”

May 1, 2025, 2:00pm - 3:00pm ET note new seminar time

Cornell Ithaca campus, MVR 3219, and on Zoom

With refreshments to follow.

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Dr. Kripa Rajagopalan, PhD, MSc, MSPH
Lecturer, Division of Nutritional Sciences
Postdoctoral Associate
Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health

Dr. Srishti Sinha, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health
In partnership with the World Health Organization Collaborating Center at the Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health. Join us for a series of talks highlighting our work on obesity in children and adolescents, with an introduction by Dr. Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas, MD, PhD, MPH, Head, Global Health Initiatives, Office of the Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO.

Title: “Current Evidence on Diet Therapy for Managing Obesity in Children and Adolescents”

Date: April 10, 2025, 11:30am - 12:30pm ET

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Dr. Shah M. Fahim, MBBS
Doctoral Candidate
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University
In partnership with the World Health Organization Collaborating Center at the Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health. Join us for a series of talks highlighting our work on obesity in children and adolescents, with an introduction by Dr. Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas, MD, PhD, MPH, Head, Global Health Initiatives, Office of the Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO.

Title: “Current evidence on gut microbiome-based interventions for children and adolescents with obesity”

Date: March 27, 2025, 11:30am - 12:30pm ET

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Dr. Samantha L. Huey, PhD
Research Associate and Group Lead
Precision Nutrition
Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health
In partnership with the World Health Organization Collaborating Center at the Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health. Join us for a series of talks highlighting our work on obesity in children and adolescents, with an introduction by Dr. Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas, MD, PhD, MPH, Head, Global Health Initiatives, Office of the Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO.

Title: “Current evidence on precision nutrition-based interventions for children and adolescents with obesity”

Date: March 20, 2025, 11:30am - 12:30pm ET

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Dr. Mirna P. Amaya, PhD, MPH
Group Lead
Health Systems
Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health
In partnership with the World Health Organization Collaborating Center at the Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health. Join us for a series of talks highlighting our work on obesity in children and adolescents, with an introduction by Dr. Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas, MD, PhD, MPH, Head, Global Health Initiatives, Office of the Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO.

Title: “People Centered Approach in Childhood and Adolescent Nutrition”

Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025, 11:30am - 12:30pm ET

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Dr. Martin Mwangi, PhD
Standing Together for Nutrition (ST4N) Coalition, Program Manager
Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies (HMHB) Coalition, Program Lead
The Micronutrient Forum
A series in partnership with the Micronutrient Forum

Title: “Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation and Maternal Nutrition”

March 6, 2025, 11:30am - 12:30pm ET

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Dr. Cecilia Fabrizio, DrPH, MPH
Program Lead
Climate Change and Nutrition
Standing Together for Nutrition Coalition (ST4N)
The Micronutrient Forum
A series in partnership with the Micronutrient Forum.

Title: “Climate Change and Nutrition: Building the Evidence Base to Drive Global Policy Actions”

February 20, 2025, 11:30am - 12:30pm ET

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Dr. Marti van Liere, PhD
Director of Programs
the Micronutrient Forum
A series in partnership with the Micronutrient Forum.

Title: “The Micronutrient Forum: Turning Evidence into Collective Action for Nutrition

February 6, 2025, 11:30am - 12:30pm

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Dr. Daniel J. Raiten, PhD, FASN, Senior Nutrition Scientist, Office of Nutrition Research, National Institutes of Health, joins the PIN Seminar.

Title: “Understanding the intersection of climate change, food systems, diet, nutrition and health: Implications for evidence-informed programs, policies, and interventions to address diet and health”

October 31, 2024, 11:30am - 12:30pm

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Dr. Anais Rameau, Chief of Dysphagia, Director of New Technologies, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Weill Cornell Medicine, joins the PIN Seminar to discuss her work.
Title: “Voice as an AI Biomarker of Health - Introducing Audiomics”

October 17, 2024, 11:30am - 12:30pm

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Dr. Ty Beal, PhD, Senior Technical Specialist, Knowledge Leadership, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) joins the PIN Seminar.

Title: “Nutritional Value Score Rates Foods Based on Global Health Priorities”

September 19, 2024, 11:30am - 12:30pm

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Dr. Pascale Vonaesch, MSc, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor, Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, joins the PIN Seminar.

Title: “The Gut Microbiota in Childhood Undernutrition”

September 12, 2024, 11:30am - 12:30pm

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