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‘Leadership required to solve nutrition problems’

Special Correspondent

International conference held at NIN

HYDERABAD: Leadership, communication and advocacy skills are required more than knowledge to address the major food and nutrition problems facing India, said Ricardo Uauy, president, International Union of Nutritional Sciences, here on Thursday.

He was delivering the 31st Gopalan Oration-2007 on ‘Leadership more than new knowledge is required to improve nutrition in India’ as part of the three-day 39th conference of Nutrition Society of India at the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN).

Dr. Uauy of Chile observed that leadership skills should enable young scientists to better discharge their functions. They could be effective investigators, professors, programme administrators, policy-makers, communicators and advocates for the nutrition improvement. Kamala Krishnaswamy, president of the society, chaired the session.

C. Gopalan, founder-president of the society, who could not attend because of indisposition, in a prepared speech read out by B.Sesikiran, NIN Director, suggested strengthening of the country’s nutrition infrastructure.

He said this could be strengthened by setting up a ‘national centre for the comprehensive analysis of foods’, a ‘national nutrition and family health monitoring bureau’ and a ‘national centre for promotion and dissemination of nutrition education’. The two centres could be put up at NIN. Several experts from within the country and abroad are attending the conference.

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