Sponsored by
Agriculture and Rural Development and the HDNHE Nutrition Team

Thursday, March 3, 2011
12:30 - 2:00PM
(Box lunches will be available)

I4-060
1850 I Street, N.W. Washington, DC

RSVP/Registration Required:
arafamat@worldbank.org

Presenter
Professor Glen Maberly
Director of the Centre for Health Innovation and Partnership
Sydney West Area Health Service, Australia

Discussant
Meera Shekar 
Lead Health and Nutrition Advisor, HDNHE

Chair
Juergen Voegele
Sector Director, ARD

With rising food prices and climate change, an increasing proportion of the world’s population is likely to suffer deficiencies of essential vitamins and minerals, posing threats to human health and the economic growth of many countries. Pregnant women and young children (under 2 years) are particularly vulnerable to micronutrient malnutrition. Rice fortification holds promise as part of the solution to micronutrient deficiencies now that new technologies to fortify rice have been developed. Professor Maberly will discuss the improved fortification methods, the efficacy and effectiveness of fortified rice in addressing iron deficiency anemia, and the cost of fortification, as well as several country case studies. 

About the Speaker
Professor Maberly is the Director of the Centre for Health Innovation and Partnership (CHIP) at Sydney West Area Health Service and he manages the Global Health Institute’s (GHI) work in the Pacific. Prior to working with CHIP and GHI, Professor Maberly was on the faculty at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Georgia (1991-97) where he founded the Department of Global Health. He was also at the core of founding the Flour Fortification Initiative (FFI), a public/private partnership that operates as a global network supporting improved micronutrient status through flour fortification. At the beginning of his career, Professor Maberly worked as an endocrinologist and conducted significant research into iodine deficiencies in Malaysia, China and Indonesia.