Stretching the Dollar, Increasing the Reach

The event will explore how the U.S. government can address the critical gaps and opportunities outlined in our nutrition policy primer, which will be launched at the event. The primer provides a global nutrition 101 for policymakers with key terms, interventions, and target cohorts and a landscape overview of the priority issues in global nutrition, important players, and the U.S. government’s investments. The primer also identifies critical gaps including a $70 billion global funding gap toward the World Health Assembly’s stunting, anemia, exclusive breastfeeding, and wasting goals; data gaps in how best to reach adolescents during a critical growth period; and the lack of transparency of U.S. government nutrition investments and impact. The primer sets forth a proposal to increase the annual U.S. investment with specific ideas for how those additional resources can have impact programmatically and operationally, as well as in filling knowledge gaps.
 
A diverse group of panelists will share their perspectives on how the U.S. government can better utilize its global nutrition investments as a powerful U.S. foreign policy tool that can maximize its other health and development portfolios, drive economic growth, and mitigate conflict and political instability.

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Welcoming Remarks:

Sara M. Allinder
Executive Director and Senior Fellow, CSIS Global Health Policy Center

Primer Introduction:

Amy R. Beaudreault
Research Fellow, CSIS Global Health Policy Center and Global Food Security Project

Panel Discussion:

Shawn Baker
Director, Nutrition Team, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Beth Dunford
Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Food Security and Deputy Coordinator for Development for Feed the Future, U.S. Agency for International Development

Asma Lateef
Director, Bread for the World Institute

Moderated by:

Sara M. Allinder
Executive Director and Senior Fellow, CSIS Global Health Policy Center

This event is made possible by the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.