Meeting
Nutritional Risk Assessment: Bridging Perspectives, Sharing Methodologies, Identifying Data Challenges
- When:
- Where:
- National Academy of Sciences Building • 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006 Map
- Topic(s):
- Biomedical and Health Research, Children and Families, Diseases, Food and Nutrition
- Activity:
- Nutritional Risk Assessment: Bridging Perspectives, Sharing Methodologies, Identifying Data Challenges
- Board(s):
- Food and Nutrition Board
Nutritional Risk Assessment: Bridging Perspectives, Sharing Methodologies, Identifying Data Challenges
February 28-March 1, 2007
The National Academies Auditorium
2100 C Street N.W.
Washington, DC
The Institute of Medicine's Food Forum held a 2-day workshop jointly supported by the Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium (IRAC), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) to explore current and potential uses of risk assessment methodologies to answer nutritional questions.
The workshop served as a forum for experts on various disciplines to discuss the use of risk assessment tools to establish nutritional recommendations to prevent disease and maintain health and will identify next steps necessary to advance in this area.
Session topics are:
- The Interface Between Risk Assessment and Nutrition (see link below)
- Current Uses of Nutritional Risk Assessment (see link below)
- Risk Assessment Methods: Nutritional Recommendations and Health Outcomes (see below
- Research Gaps
Further details will be available soon at www.iom.edu/fnb . For more information please contact Geraldine Kennedo at 202-334-1732 or gkennedo@nas.edu.