Membership is open to any person who is committed to our vision and mission.
We are a professional association that brings together people with a common interest in promoting and improving public health nutrition. We work to ensure that in all possible circumstances, adequate nourishing food is available to and affordable by all.
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Our members are spread across countries in all continents of the world. They are committed to advancing public health nutrition and sharing their experience to the world. Find out more about who they are, there are many networking opportunities awaiting.
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Our conferences, meetings and short-courses are key to our efforts to achieve more effective public health nutrition actions.Our previous conference, World Nutrition Rio2012, was a great success. And we are now preparing our next one, World Nutrition Delhi2016!
Read MoreWe have prepared a list of upcoming events of relevance for public health nutrition that will be updated constantly. You can have access to them by clicking on this post. Events announced include conferences, congresses, seminars and other meetings, as well as training courses and workshops.
If you would like to share information about an event, please contact us.
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The Association is moving forward with its actions on workforce development. We are now launching our Professional Affairs section of the website, where we describe key action areas that have at its focus supporting the broad professionalization of public health nutrition as a practice discipline, in order to building nutrition capacity. We are enthusiastic to work with partners to take this work forward.Read More
A new publication edited by Harriet Kuhnlein, Chief Bill Erasmus, Dina Spigelski and Barbara Burlingame will be launched on May 25 in New York, at the United Nations Plaza. The event will happen at 10.30 AM during the gathering of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.Read More
A short statement on the WHO Global Action Plan on NCDs is being submitted to the sixty-sixth session of the WHA on behalf of IASO and IOTF, with the co-signatories of WCRF International, Consumers International, WPHNA, WASH and the UK Health Forum.Read More
Ronald McDonald and Tony the Tiger will make an appearance at the sixty-sixth session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva. This Monday 20th of May campaigners dressed as these mascots will gather to raise awareness for the dangers of marketing of unhealthy foods to children and to call for a complete ban of such actions.Read More
It happened in May last year for the first time, and this year it is happening again: the 17th of May is Food Revolution Day. It is a worldwide campaign organized by the British chef and worldwide celebrity Jamie Oliver and some charitable/non-profit organizations associated with (or created by) him. The idea is simple: let’s all take a day to think about what we eat, connect with our food, know more about it and share it with others around us, remembering that eating is one of our most important social activities.Read More
