As malnutrition and anaemia continue to threaten a sizable number of population in the country, a two-day conference kicked off here on Friday with an aim to emphasises on the technical advances that have been made in the sector and translates research into practical resources like videos, toolkits, and brochures to simplify the technical insights.
“Partnerships are critical to drive public health progress of the country that’s closely linked with its social development. The hallmark of our conference is stakeholder partnership and an active engagement of communities in all stages of research, programme design, implementation to minimise the occurrence of anaemia and its effect on women and children,” said Meera Satpathy, founder and chairperson, Sukarya which has organised the conference in partnership with NCEAR-A, IFPRI, George Washington University, Department of Global Health, University of Washington and Global Washington .
Sukarya has reached 70,00,000 women and children across 760 villages of India and continues to engage communities via dialogues, health camps.