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Food Safety and Healthy Diets

Proceedings of the Workshop | 12-13 September 2018
Scripta Varia 141 | Vatican City, 2018
E-Pub ahead of print 

Contents

Opening Remarks

H.E. Msgr. Paul Richard Gallagher | Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See

Word of Welcome

Prof. Joachim von Braun | PAS President

Keynote Address

Dr. José Graziano da Silva | FAO Director General

Video Message

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | WHO Director General

Chair: President Joachim von Braun

Introduction Panel: Safe and Nutritious Foods: Where we are? Where we are headed? And where we need to be to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Dr. Lawrence Haddad | Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

Dr. Amare Ayalew | Director of Partnership for Aflatoxin Control, Africa

Dr. Jessica Fanzo | Senior Programme Officer, UN FAO and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Yolanda Sanz | My New Gut project, Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, Spanish National Research Council

Chair: Dr. Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato

Panel 1: The consequences of unsafe food: an impediment for human development

Dr. Delia Grace | Program Leader, International Livestock Research Institute

Prof. J. David Miller | Department of Chemistry, Carleton University

Prof. Dr. Jakob Zinsstag-Klopfenstein | Deputy Head, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Dr. Kazuaki Miyagishima | Director Office of Food Safety and Zoonoses, WHO

Dr. Steven Jaffee | Lead Agricultural Economist, World Bank

Chair: Rosa S. Rolle, Ph.D.

Panel 2: Food safety and food waste: the connections and solutions

Dr. Pawan Agarwal | CEO, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

Dr. Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato | University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. PAS Academician

Ms. Alexandra Nikolakopoulou | Head of Unit, Food Information and Food Waste, at DG Health and Food Safety, DG SANTE European Commission

Chair: Greg S. Garrett | Director of Food Policy and Finance, GAIN

Panel 3: The double burden of malnutrition: the new global epidemic that can be prevented

Dr. Emorn Udomkesmalee | Co-Chair, Global Nutrition Report’s International Expert Group

Dr. Howarth Bouis | CEO, HarvestPlus

Dr. Lynnette Neufeld | Director for Knowledge Leadership, GAIN

Dr. Rose Omari | Researcher, CSIR-STEPRI, Ghana

Dr. Bruce Neal | Deputy Executive Director,The George Institute for Global Health, Australia

Dr. Juan Rivera | Director of the Mexican Institute of Public Health (INSP)

Chair: Ms. Vinita Bali | GAIN

Panel 4: Corporate leadership as agents for change in nutrition

Mr. Roberto Ciati | Vice President Scientific & Governmental Relations, Barilla Group

Dr. Klaus Kraemer | Managing Director, DSM Sight and Life Foundation

Mauro Fontana | Managing Director & Technical Scientific Director of Soremartec Italia (the R&D Italian Company of Ferrero Group)

Dr. Tia Rains | Scientific Advisor, International Egg Foundation

Rupert Maitland-Titterton | Senior Director Corporate Affairs EMEA, Kellogg

Chair: Lawrence Haddad | GAIN

Panel 5: The role of International Organizations: emerging themes, recommendations for research and action to continue the collaboration at the FAO – WHO Conference

Dr. Svetlana Akselrod | Assistant Director-General of WHO

Dr. Renata Clarke | Director Food Safety, FAO

Chair: H.E. Msgr. Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo | PAS Chancellor

Interfaith session: Interfaith leaders: advocates of collaboration to achieve human dignity and meet the SDGs

Introduction to the Interfaith Session

Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo | PAS Chancellor

Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp | Netherlands

Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi | Archbishop of Canterbury’s personal representative to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome

Chairs: Joachim von Braun | PAS, Lawrence Haddad | GAIN, Bishop Chancellor Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo | PAS

Review of Workshop Statement, and way forward and closing

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