28. On equity and equality
Yes, equality is key to sustainability. In the post 2015 development agenda, it is not simply about ‘extending’ the MDGs towards SDGs. It is not about reformulating , dropping or…
29. Big Food and the World Economic Forum
WN Update World Nutrition Volume 4, Number 8, October-December 2013 Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association Published monthly at www.wphna.org/worldnutrition/ Editor’s note. Big Food Watch. on the cover…
30. Shortcomings of the SDGs
WN Guest editorial World Nutrition Volume 6, Number 3, March 2015 Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association Published monthly at www.wphna.org/worldnutrition/ Health, nutrition and well-being after 2015 What…
31. Safety nets and the SUN Initiative
WN Development. Hot Stuff Safety nets, SUN and MOON Access April 2015 Feedback George Kent on trade here Access April 2014 Shamim Hayder Talukder on vitamin A supplementation here Claudio…
32. The Equality-Equity controversy
World Nutrition Volume 5, Number 6, June 2014 World Nutrition June 2014, 5, 6, pp? WN Feedback World Nutrition Volume 5, Number 6, June 2014 Journal of the World Public…
33. Swarmed by data
WE ARE SWARMED BY TOO MANY STATISTICS AND DATA THAT, AT THE END OF THE DAY, PROVIDE LITTLE VALUABLE ACTIONABLE INFORMATION THAT MAKES A CHANGE . -These days, we do…
34. Fundamental Public Health Nutrition
April blog Claudio Schuftan Here above is my hero Rudolf Virchow. He was a social visionary who in the late 1840s, articulated the social – and the economic and political…
35. The political economy of malnutrition
February blog Claudio Schuftan En route to Kinshasa. Consulting work is catching up with me once again. This time I will spend a week in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)…
36. A new vision for WHO
March blog Claudio Schuftan Here is a picture of my dear friend and colleague Dr Ravi Narayan of the Centre for Public Health and Equity, Bangalore. Beginning in 2003, he…
37. Malnutrition and technical fixes
February blog Claudio Schuftan This month I remember the colleagues who coined the term ‘commerciogenic malnutrition’: Derrick Jelliffe and his wife Patrice (left and centre in the picture above). Derrick…