New horizons for monitoring and diagnosing undernutrition

INTRODUCTION

Chair of the session

• Yap Boum II, Africa Representative, Epicentre

Panelists

• Oleg Bilukha, Associate Director for Science, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Alexandra Rutishauser-Perera, Head of Nutrition, Action Against Hunger UK

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

• Alan Ricardo Patlan Hernandez, Action contre la Faim France
  Investigating the relationship between hydro-climatic data and nutritional status to improve the early warning system (EWS) in Southern Madagascar

• Tanja Englberger, CRS
  Real-Time Nutrition Data for Decision-making

• Rayhan Mostak, Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation, and Dailey-Chwalibóg T, Action contre la Faim France
  Clinical significance of the heterogeneous anthropometry-based case definitions of Severe Acute Malnutrition in children: preliminary results of the multi-centric OptiDiag study and policy implications

• Benjamin Guesdon, Action contre la Faim France
  Substandard discharge rules in current severe acute malnutrition management protocols: An overlooked source of ineffectiveness for program