Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), 19-21 November 2014

ROUNDTABLE 2 – Improving Policy Coherence for Nutrition

Thursday 20 November 2014
Panel 1 – Coherence between economic policies and healthy changes in diets

16.00-17.30

Co-Chairs: Dr Tito PIZZARO, Head of the Division of Health Public Policies and Promotion of the Ministry of Health, Chile

His Excellency, Igor RADZIEWICZ-WINNICKI, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Health, Poland

 

ModeratorAla ALWAN, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization

 

Main SpeakerCorinna HAWKES, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, World Cancer Research Fund Coherence of public policies for ensuring healthy changes in diets

 

Panellists:

 

His Excellency Arthur CHIORO, Minister of Health, Brazil – Coherence between economic policy objectives and healthy diets

 

His Excellency Leo VARADKAR, Minister of Health, Ireland – Coherence between economic policies and healthy changes in diets

 

Kyungwon OH, Director, Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Health and Nutrition Survey, Republic of Korea – Coherence between economic policy objectives and healthy diets

 

Franco SASSI, Senior Health Economist, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development – Coherence between economic objectives and healthy diets

 

Vinita BALI, Leader Group/Member – SUN and former MD Britannia Industries Ltd., India – Coherence between private sector objectives and healthy diets

Thursday 20 November 2014
Panel 2 – Policy coherence for nutrition-sensitive agriculture

09.30-11.00

Co-Chairs: Dr Tito PIZZARO, Head of the Division of Health Public Policies and Promotion of the Ministry of Health, Chile

His Excellency, Igor RADZIEWICZ-WINNICKI, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Health, Poland

 

ModeratorJoachim VON BRAUN, Director, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn

 

Main SpeakerMarie RUEL, Director, Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute Shaping Agricultural policies to make them nutrition-enhancing

 

Panellists:

 

Her Excellency, Nemesia ACHACOLLO TOLA, Minister for Rural Development and Land of the Plurinational State of Bolivia ( Country case study: Making agriculture policies nutrition-sensitive

 

The Honourable Akinwumi AYO ADESINA, Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Nigeria – Country case study: Making agriculture policies nutrition-sensitive

 

The Honourable Kevin CONCANNON, Under Secretary of State, United States Department of Agriculture (USA) – Country case study: Making agriculture policies nutrition-sensitive

 

Country representative (tbc) – Country case study: Making agriculture policies nutrition-sensitive

 

Jeff WAAGE, Coordinator of the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, and Director, London International Development Centre – Improving coherence within the food systems for nutrition

Thursday 20 November 2014
Panel 3 –Nutrition in all sectors

11.30-13.00

Co-Chairs: Dr Tito PIZZARO, Head of the Division of Health Public Policies and Promotion of the Ministry of Health, Chile

His Excellency, Igor RADZIEWICZ-WINNICKI, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Health, Poland

 

ModeratorBarrie MARGETTS, Professor, Public Health Nutrition, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

 

Main SpeakerPekka PUSKA, Professor, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland – How can we get nutrition in all policies? What will it take?

 

Panellists:

 

The Honourable Tuitama Leao Dr TALALELEI TUITAMA, Minister of Health, Samoa – Nutrition in trade policy

 

Lois BROWN, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development and La Francophonie Canada – Nutrition in agriculture policy

 

María Virginia CASTILLO JARA, Director-General, Food and Nutrition National Center of the National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health, Peru – Nutrition in social policy

 

Enoch HEMANS COBBINAH, Chief Director of the Ministry of Education, Ghana – Nutrition in education policy

 

 Sarah ABDULLAH ALRAKAYAN, Researcher at the ‘University of Rome Tor Vergata’, Embassy of the State of Kuwait – Nutrition in health policy