Global Ideas Institute  

2011-12 Expert Speaker Series

Dr. Anita M. McGahan | Dr. Yu-Ling Cheng | Ms. Ellie Avishai | Dr. Dilip Soman | Dr. Stanley Zlotkin | Dr. Murray Metcalfe | Dr. Joseph Wong

Involvement of the Public, NGO, and Private Sectors in Knowledge Translation, Implementation, and Scaling
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
Vivian & David Campbell Conference Facility

Dr. Stanley Zlotkin
Professor, Paediatrics, Public Health Sciences, and Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto; Vice President, Medical and Academic Affairs, The Hospital for Sick Children

Preventing child malnutrition has been a priority for governments, NGOs, and UN agencies. The last of the major nutritional problems yet to be solved is iron deficiency and its accompanying anemia. Close to 200 million children are affected globally. Our research group has developed an intervention to fortify foods in the home to prevent iron deficiency. Over the past ten years the intervention has been shown to be efficacious and safe. It has been produced by the private sector, championed by the UN, and implemented by the NGO, public, and private sectors. In 2010, 400 million units were procured by UN agencies alone for use in over thirty countries. However, the success of the scalingup process has been quite variable and is contingent on a host of social, political, and economic factors. This discussion will use multiple country examples to illustrate the complexity of home-fortifi cation scaling.

Stanley Zlotkin, MD, PhD, is a professor of Paediatrics, Public Health Sciences, and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto. He was appointed Vice President of Medical and Academic Aff airs at SickKids in July 2010. His program, the Sprinkles Global Health Initiative, has focused on research and advocacy to control micronutrient malnutrition in children. Professor Zlotkin has been awarded the CIHR National
Knowledge Translation Award, the HJ Heinz Humanitarian Award, and the Order of Canada for his contributions to improving the health of children globally. In 2011 he was awarded a Fellowship in the Canadian Society of Health Sciences.