This project is coordinated by IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
NUTRIPASS "Prevention of malnutrition and associated pathologies" department
UMR Nutripass
BP 64501
911, avenue Agropolis
34394 Montpellier Cedex
FRANCE
Jacques BERGER , Coordinator
Gentiane BLANCHARD , Manager
Tel : + 33 (0)4 67 41 63 67
Fax: + 33 (0)4 67 41 61 57
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
The University and Department of Nutrition
LSHTM is Britain's national school of public health and a leading postgraduate institution worldwide for research and postgraduate education in global health and nutrition.
LSHTM is committed to improving the health of populations worldwide through the pursuit of excellence in research, postgraduate teaching and advanced training and through informing policy and practice in these areas. It offers 22 taught MSc courses. It has over 1300 staff from over 60 countries; its alumni reside in over 180 countries and its current student body of >4000 students come from over 100 countries.
The Nutrition Group in the Department of Nutrition and Public Health Interventions is committed to addressing the major nutrition and food related problems that affect human development at a national and global level through their research and teaching activities. They have extensive research and teaching experience in maternal and child nutrition, nutrition and infection, micronutrient nutrition and nutrition interventions.
The improvement of complementary feeding and breastfeeding practices is a research priority. The Department has a micronutrient laboratory and IT facilities/support.
Main tasks in the project
The LSHTM is leader of WP4 (linear programming) and contributes to WP2 (data and intervention mapping), WP3 (FCT), WP5 (summarizing of data and recommendation from WP2 – WP4) and WP8 (dissimination).
"SMILING for Action", Final dissemination event, 3rd April, Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
The final dissemination event will be organized Thursday 3rd of April 2014, at Sofitel Phnom-Penh, Cambodia. The five national roadmaps of priority interventions to prevent micronutrient deficiencies during the project will be presented to a large audience of stakeholders, policymakers, representatives of International organizations involved in nutrition policies implementation.
Publication on the project in "Food and Nutrition Bulletin"
The SMILING project was the topic of a publication in Food and Nutrition Bulletin , vol. 34, no. 2 (sup.), "The SMILING project: A North–South–South collaborative action to prevent micronutrient deficiencies in women and young children in Southeast Asia" Berger J. et al
SMILING outcomes at the Micronutrient Forum Conference
Two presentations at the Micronutrient Forum Global Conference (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 2014) will be about specically SMILING. Many researchers from the project will present outcomes related to the project.
The SMILING project is financially supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (GA: 289616)