Tokyo
In February, global health and nutrition advocates gathered in Tokyo, Japan for a meeting hosted by The National Bureau of Asian Research to discuss the critical issues around maternal and child undernutrition. This meeting served as an advance workshop of the Pacific Health Summit – a June gathering of top decision-makers in science, policy, industry, medicine, and public health to discuss how emerging science and technology can be connected to global health policy. The focus of the 2008 Pacific Health Summit is nutrition. Thus, this meeting also served as an opportunity to share information with Japanese media and the greater population on undernutrition.
This gathering and the release of The Lancet’s Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition provided a foundation for discussions with the media, including four of the country’s leading news wires and publications – Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Kydo Newswire, Bloomberg News – Tokyo, and Yomiuri Shimbun. Journalists were joined by nutrition experts Dr. Michal Birt, Pacific Health Summit; Dr. Robert Black, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Dr. Tadataka Yamada, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Health Policy Institute for an evening briefing on maternal and child undernutrition.
As Japan prepares to host the TICAD IV (Tokyo International Conference on African Development) in May and G8 in July, and with momentum building around the Pacific Health Summit in June, nutrition experts hope the opportunity to present Japanese media with the research of The Lancet’s Series, coupled with a coalescence of opportunity in Japan, results in heightened awareness about the effects of undernutrition.
This gathering and the release of The Lancet’s Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition provided a foundation for discussions with the media, including four of the country’s leading news wires and publications – Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Kydo Newswire, Bloomberg News – Tokyo, and Yomiuri Shimbun. Journalists were joined by nutrition experts Dr. Michal Birt, Pacific Health Summit; Dr. Robert Black, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Dr. Tadataka Yamada, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Health Policy Institute for an evening briefing on maternal and child undernutrition.
As Japan prepares to host the TICAD IV (Tokyo International Conference on African Development) in May and G8 in July, and with momentum building around the Pacific Health Summit in June, nutrition experts hope the opportunity to present Japanese media with the research of The Lancet’s Series, coupled with a coalescence of opportunity in Japan, results in heightened awareness about the effects of undernutrition.