In 2012, world leaders committed to halving anaemia prevalence in women by 2025. The World Bank and its partners estimate that to meet this target, the world will need to invest $12.9B billion on top of current funding in the next 10 years. If achieved, the outcomes would be enormous: 265 million cases of anaemia prevented, 799,000 lives saved and hundreds of millions on earnings.
Progress towards achieving the target has been slow, and the epidemics of COVID-19 is harming both the health and food systems in unthinkable ways a few months ago.
Is there a way forward? What to do to keep anaemia prevention as a priority in the resilience agenda of countries and donors?
Please join us in this webinar where we will discuss these important issues.
Speakers
Dr Saskia Osendarp, Micronutrient Forum
Saskia is the founding
Executive Director of the Micronutrient Forum, with more than 25 years of
experience in 
international nutrition research in the public and private
sectors and is a visiting professor in Nutrition and Health at the Wageningen
University in Netherlands.
Saskia holds a MSc and PhD in Nutrition from Wageningen University & Research. She lived and worked for seven years at the ICDDR, Bangladesh and spent 10 years in Unilever as Lead scientist micronutrients and child nutrition.
Since winning the Young Investigator Award in the late 1990s from the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Saskia has built a strong record of academic, public health and private sector research and innovation achievements. She has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and has led cross-functional research teams on innovative products through public-private partnerships.
Mr Augustin Flory, Results for Development
As a recognized global nutrition leader with over 20 years of experience, Augustin Flory has delivered social and 
economic change in Africa, the Middle East and Asia through philanthropies, international organizations and businesses.
Augustin is Results for Development’s managing director for nutrition, and a member of R4D’s strategy team, providing creative and technical leadership to the whole organization.
Augustin was the executive director for nutrition at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), where he was responsible for developing and leading the Foundation’s strategy to address undernutrition. From 2013 to 2016, he positioned CIFF as a global leader and trusted partner within the nutrition sector, including convening the first Nutrition for Growth summit in London in 2013; the development of the first-ever global investment framework to meet the global nutrition targets set by the World Health Assembly (WHA); and the development of No Wasted Lives, a global coalition to tackle severe acute malnutrition. He served as the co-chair of the Stakeholder Group of the Global Nutrition Report in 2015 and 2016.
Augustin holds a bachelor’s degree in law from King’s College London, a master’s degree in law from Paris University and a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University.
Ms Dipika Matthias, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dipika Matthias is a Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, leading their food fortification 
portfolio of investments on the global nutrition team. Prior to the Gates Foundation, she was on the executive team of a social enterprise start-up focused on converting by-product from coffee value chains into a nutritious food product for worldwide markets. Dipika worked for nearly 14 years at PATH, a global health NGO, where she led a project to develop the technology, markets, and distribution channels for integrating fortified rice into the diets of malnourished populations – with products that are now reaching millions of children globally. She also conceptualized and led PATH’s Global Health Innovation Hub to advance local innovation ecosystems for global health technologies.
Before joining PATH, Dipika was the Director of Business Analytics at a subsidiary of Merck, a role that followed several years with the World Bank. She has many publications on topics ranging from vaccine delivery to market introduction of global health technologies to the role of information technology in improving health. Dipika holds an M.B.A. from Yale and a B.S. in Management Engineering from the University of Vermont.
Moderator
Luz Maria De-Regil – AREA CoP Moderator
The Community of Practice (CoP) aims to support members of the global community dedicated to improving and scaling up existing methods and strategies for anaemia reduction in a holistic and cohesive manner; to build consensus for engagement in AREA at
the global, regional and national level and commit to the achievement of the Global Nutrition Targets 2025 endorsed by the 65th World Health Assembly.