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| | Location: | G 4-001 (1776 G Street, NW) | | Begins: | Thu 04/03/08 4:00PM | | Ends: | Thu 04/03/08 5:30PM | | Contact Person: | HNP Learning Program |
Sponsored by:
The Nutrition Thematic Group and the Disease Control Priorities Project
Health, Nutrition and Population Unit of the Human Development Network Investing in early childhood nutrition:
What are the returns? Presenters:
Reynaldo Martorell
Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition
Chair of the Hubert Department of Global Health
Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University John A. Maluccio
Assistant professor
Economics Department at Middlebury College Chair:
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network Closing remarks:
Julian Schweitzer
Director, Health, Nutrition, and Population Thursday, April 3, 2008
Room G4-001
1776 G Street 04:00 pm to 5:30 pm To register and request building passes, please send an email to arafamat@worldbank.org The 2006 World Bank document, "Repositioning nutrition as central to development: A strategy for large scale action", presented substantial, but indirect, evidence that investments in nutrition in early life is not only a matter of welfare and human rights but more importantly, of economic development. This presentation reviews recent advances in understanding the long term consequences of improving pre-school nutrition for human capital formation and economic productivity. It draws on recently published analyses of cohort studies in 5 developing countries and on new analyses based on an experimental nutritional intervention during early childhood and its effects on adult outcomes measured a quarter century later on the same individuals in Guatemala. This new work provides the strongest evidence to date of the considerable long-term benefits of investing in nutrition in the first 2–3 years of life. Reynaldo Martorell is Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition and Chair of the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. His research interests include maternal and child nutrition, child growth and development, the significance of early childhood malnutrition for short and long term human function, micronutrient malnutrition, and the emergence of obesity and chronic diseases in developing countries. Dr. Martorell has been involved for more than 35 years in follow-up studies of a cohort from Guatemala, which began as a community randomized nutrition intervention study. Recent awards include the McCollum International Lectureship and the International Nutrition Prize, both from the American Society for Nutrition, and the Marion V. Creekmore Award for Internationalization from Emory University. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2003. Prior to his position at Emory, Dr. Martorell held positions at Cornell University, Stanford University, and the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) in Guatemala. John A. Maluccio is currently assistant professor in the Economics Department at Middlebury College. Prior to arriving at Middlebury, he was a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington D.C. His research interests lie in the microeconometric analysis of issues in development economics, particularly the determinants of health and education, program evaluation, and the long-term consequences of early childhood undernutrition and poverty. top
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The Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) is an effort to establish priorities for addressing disease control and produce evidence-based analysis and resource materials to inform health policymaking in developing countries. The DCPP has led to three volumes providing technical resources that can assist developing countries in setting priority interventions to improve the health of their people. In April 2006, DCPP released the second edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (DCP2) that includes updated information about the global burden of diseases brought about by malaria, tobacco, HIV/AIDS, mental disorders and injury which account for an increasing proportion of deaths. DCP2 highlights cost-effective interventions based on an analysis of health systems, the scope of disease burdens, interventions and their costs, and prevention for an extensive range of diseases and outcomes. For more information please click on the link below: http://www.dcp2.org/main/Home.html top
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