The WHO-UNICEF Technical Expert Advisory Group on nutrition Monitoring (TEAM) has been playing an important role to advise WHO and UNICEF in their global nutrition efforts since its inception in 2015. Although TEAM has been well recognized in the nutrition community for its significant contributions to global nutrition monitoring, this was the first time for TEAM to showcase its activities in an international conference.
A symposium entitled “Global Nutrition Monitoring: Challenges, experiences and opportunities” was organized at the 22nd IUNS-ICN held in Tokyo, Japan, 6-11 December 2022 by the joint WHO-UNICEF TEAM Secretariat.
The main purpose of this symposium was to display the work of TEAM and its contributions to the global nutrition monitoring effort to a broader nutrition community. The symposium was chaired by Kuntal Kumar Saha from the WHO Department of Nutrition and Food Safety and included four presentations by TEAM advisors:
- Improving the quality of child malnutrition data for SDG monitoring: mapping the unfinished research agenda
- Meeting the measurement needs of the changing face of children's diets around the world
- Advancing methods, metrics, collection, and use of data on nutrition intervention coverage at household level
- The Healthy Diets Monitoring Initiative: toward the development of healthy diet metrics for national and global monitoring
The presentations highlighted the challenges and opportunities in global nutrition monitoring. The symposium was well participated by about 150 participants and created interest and awareness among the participants. The abstracts and the presentations are available.