Assessing Predictors and Metrics of Diet Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: The Intersection of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health

Join the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition for a webinar that will examine patterns in dietary diversity and quality in South Asian and Sub-Saharan African contexts. Speakers will assess how crop and livestock production influence dietary diversity and its components, how seasonality influences consumption of non-staple foods, and will discuss the implications of seasonality for the use of dietary diversity indicators to measure progress over time.

Moderator:

Dr. Wafaie Fawzi, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences Professor of Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Speakers:

Dr. Elena Broaddus, Senior Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dr. Isabel Madzorera, Postdoctoral Researcher in the department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Andrew Thorne-Lyman, Associate Scientist and Nutrition Epidemiologist in the Center for Human Nutrition at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health