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.