{"id":8934,"date":"2014-10-29T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/gwach\/?p=8934"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:36:07","slug":"global-wachs-technical-symposium-on-strengthening-the-nutrition-continuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2014\/10\/29\/global-wachs-technical-symposium-on-strengthening-the-nutrition-continuum\/","title":{"rendered":"Global WACh\u2019s Technical Symposium on Strengthening the Nutrition Continuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are 7 billion people in the world and nearly 2 billion are undernourished and 2 billion are overweight or obese. Last week, the team at Global WACh held a fascinating and informative learning symposium at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Experts from The University of Washington, Seattle Children\u2019s Hospital, PATH, and 1,000 Days came together for a full day of discussion and presentation on the global burdens of malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>There were three main sessions throughout the day: Basic Science and Discovery; \u00a0Implementation; and National Systems Building, each including impactful presentations with quite a few staggering facts and figures. Throughout the day we were presented with new ideas, innovative techniques for testing, all with a healthy air of hopeful idealism. It was wonderful to have a day to discuss what we can do to help ensure healthy, happy, and nourished lives around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all of our speakers and to the Gates Foundation for hosting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 7 billion people in the world and nearly 2 billion are undernourished and 2 billion are overweight or obese. Last week, the team at Global WACh held a fascinating and informative learning symposium at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Experts from The University of Washington, Seattle Children\u2019s Hospital, PATH, and 1,000 Days&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2014\/10\/29\/global-wachs-technical-symposium-on-strengthening-the-nutrition-continuum\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[11,12],"class_list":["post-8934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition","category-talks-and-events","tag-malnutrition","tag-nutrition-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18541,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934\/revisions\/18541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}