Spotlight Dialogue Recordings
Spotlight Dialogues are short talks at the beginning of each forum. Participants get to hear from two women in conversation about their experiences in navigating challenges in any leadership capacity throughout their careers in nutrition and food systems. Spotlight dialogue speakers are selected based on geographical context of experience and career stage.
A journey shared by two women- Sera Cuni & Aubrey Alvares, who have courageously worked to find alternative approaches through working at the grassroots and championing community-led initiatives address challenges in food systems to deliver nutritious food to communities.
Sera Cuni
Chef/Owner
The Root Cellar Cafe and Catering
Chapel Hill, Pittsboro,
North Carolina, USA
HealthBridge Vietnam Efforts to Combat Overweight and Obesity Among Children - HealthBridge Vietnam's Experience
Nguyen Thi An
Country Director
HealthBridge Vietnam
Vietnam
Trinh To Oanh
Project Manager
HealthBridge Vietnam
Vietnam
Lai Minh Chau
Project Coordinator
HealthBridge Vietnam
Vietnam
Nguyen Van Huan
Project Manager
HealthBridge Vietnam
Vietnam
Balancing your professional role, personal life and a side hustle
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Jane Badham
Managing Director
JB Consultancy
City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Pumla Dlamini
Consultant Public Health Nutritionist & Program Manager at Vitamin Angels
City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Making decisions guided by a social purpose
Making decisions guided by a social purpose dialogue- Part 1
Namukolo Covic
Director General's Representative to Ethiopia
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
President: African Nutrition Society
Editor: Global Food Security Journal
Kathryn Backholer
Associate Professor, Institute for Health Transformation
Associate Director, Global Obesity Centre
Deakin University
Making decisions guided by a social purpose dialogue- Part 2
Shu Wen Ng
Co- Founder; The Next Gen(D)eration Leadership Initiative
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Gilling School of Global Public Health
Fellow, Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), USA
Catherine Mah
Canada Research Chair in Promoting Healthy Populations
Associate Professor, School of Health Administration, Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Lifting others up
Lifting others up - Part 1
Purnima Menon
Senior Director,
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Delhi, India
Joystna Puri
Director of the Environment, Climate Gender, Youth, Nutrition and Social Inclusion Division (ECG)
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Adjunct Associate Professor, at SIPA, Columbia University, New York
Research fellow at Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED), University of Mannheim, Germany
Lifting others up - Part 2
Neena Prasad
Director of Food Policy and Maternal & Reproductive Health Programs
Bloomberg Philanthropies
New York City, USA
Camila Corvalán
Director of Research Center on Food Envinronment and Prevention of Chronic Diseases (CIAPEC) at INTA, University of Chile
Assistant Professor at the Istitute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INAT), University of Chile
Deviating from the norm to act with ambition
Deviating from the norm to act with ambition - Part 1
Corinna Hawkes
Co- Founder,
The Next Gen(D)eration Leadership Initiative
Director,
Division of Food Systems and Food Safety Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Tilakavati Karupaiah
Professor
School of Biosciences
Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences
Taylor's University, Malaysia
Deviating from the norm to act with ambition - Part 2
Ana Clara Duran
Research Scientist, Center for Food Studies and Research, University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Collective Health, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas
Research Fellow, Center for Epidemiological Studies in Nutrition in Health, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil
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Jessica Fanzo
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor,
Global Food Policy and Ethics, Berman Institute of Bioethics
Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Dept. of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg, School of Public Health
Director,
Johns Hopkins Global Food Ethics and Policy Program
Food & Nutrition Security, JHU Alliance for a Healthier World
Balancing multiple responsibilities in work and home and related stress and/or exhaustion
Balancing multiple responsibilities in work and home and related stress and/or exhaustion - Part 1
Liz Ogutu
Policy and Advocacy Officer for Africa
HarvestPlus
Nairobi, Kenya
Christina Zorbas
Postdoc Researcher
Deakin University
Greater Melbourne Area, Australia
Balancing multiple responsibilities in work and home and related stress and/or exhaustion - Part 2
Saskia Osendarp
Executive Director
Micronutrient Forum
The Randstad, Netherlands
Tebogô Thandie Leëpile (Tebby), PhD
PhD Candidate in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems
University of British Columbia
Botswana
Balancing multiple responsibilities in work and home and related stress and/or exhaustion - Part 3
Mary Story
Associate Director for Academic Programs &
Professor of Global Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Global Health Institute
Director, Healthy Eating Research National Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Melissa L Jensen, PhD, MSPH
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nutrition and Public Health Scientist, UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Managing a challenging/difficult relationship with a female colleague
Anna Lartey
Professor of Nutrition
University of Ghana
Shweta Khandelwal
Head, Nutrition Research and Additional Professor
Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
Facing pushback to proposals you have made internally and or externally
Research Fellow, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics
Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health
Navigating different perspectives and/or building trust when working to drive internal and / external stakeholders towards a change
Navigating different perspectives and/or building trust when working to drive internal and external stakeholders towards a change - part 1
Navigating different perspectives and/or building trust when working to drive internal and external stakeholders towards a change - part 2
Shelly Sundberg
Acting Deputy Director, Nutritious Food Systems and Women’s Empowerment, Agricultural Development
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States
Catherine Macharia-Mutie
Deputy Team Leader
IGNITE project, Tanager
Nairobi, Kenya