Scientific Sessions

This session explores the critical role of nutrition and food safety in improving population health, preventing disease, and ensuring long-term well-being across communities. With rising rates of malnutrition, obesity, micronutrient deficiencies, and foodborne illnesses worldwide, effective public health nutrition strategies and robust food safety systems are more important than ever. Topics include evidence-based nutritional guidelines, community nutrition programs, maternal and child nutrition, food fortification, and interventions aimed at reducing diet-related non-communicable diseases. The session will also address food safety regulations, risk assessment, contamination prevention, and innovations in food monitoring and surveillance. Participants will gain insights into behavior-change communication for healthier dietary practices, the influence of social and environmental factors on nutrition, and cross-sector approaches involving agriculture, education, and public health. By the end of the session, attendees will understand how to design and implement integrated nutrition and food safety initiatives that support healthier, safer, and more resilient communities.