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This project is coordinated by IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement

NUTRIPASS "Prevention of malnutrition and associated pathologies" department

UMR Nutripass

BP 64501
911, avenue Agropolis
34394 Montpellier Cedex

FRANCE

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Tel : + 33 (0)4 67 41 63 67
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Welcome to the SMILING project!

Towards national strategic agendas to prevent vitamins and minerals deficiencies for children and women, in Thailand, Lao's PDR, Indonesia, Vietnam and Cambodia

The SMILING consortium is an international group of scientists and representatives of Health and Agriculture Ministries from South-East-Asia and Europe, specialized in nutrition policies and micronutrients deficiencies. Since January 2012, they have been working together on identification and priorization of the best interventions that would prevent micronutrients deficiencies in women and children in five countries of South-East Asia.

They have been committed, with the financial support of the European Commission, to achieving the important challenge of compiling the data on micronutrient interventions in five South-East Asia countries and to develop roadmaps with efficient, feasible, sustainable interventions strategies to the public and private sector of South-East Asia, adaptated to the different national contexts of each country. These raodmaps will be proposed and advocated to policymakers and stakeholders in each target countries, and at the regional level.

The goal of this project is not only protecting people from hunger but to guaranty food and nutritional security to the most vulnerable groups, thereby contributing directly to Millenium Development Goals 1,4,5 (End Poverty and hunger, Child health, Maternal health) and as well by extension to 2 and 6 (Universal Education, Combate HIV/AIDS).

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You can also follow news on the project, share comments, open discussions on the SMILING group on Linked-in: SMILING project - Prevention of Micronutrient deficiencies in South-East Asia

On the picture:
from left to right, back ground:

Regine Lefait-Robin, IRD representant Thailand, France
Alexandra Tuijtelaars, Project Officer, European Commission, Belgium
Jean-Jacques Roubion, European Project Ingeneer, IRD, France
Marlène Pérignon, Post-doct, IRD, France
Claire Lajaunie, Coordinator of scientific programmes in South East Asia Health Department, IRD, France
Edwige Landais, Ingeneer and PhD, IRD, France
Collen Doak, Assistant professor Infectious Disease section, from VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Maize Campos, Associate professor, Head of Infectious Disease Section, from VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Eric Benefice, IRD representant Lao-Cambodia, Director of Research, France
Franck Wieringa, Senior researcher, IRD, France
Yves Martin-Prével, Senior Researcher, IRD, France
Hervé Tissot-Dupont, Head of the Health department, IRD, France
Nanna Roos, Associate Professor, University of Copenhanguen, Denmark
Jacques Berger, Director of Research, scientific coordinator of SMILING, IRD, France
Arnaud Laillou, Phd Student, GAIN, Switzerland
Yves Kameli, Ingeneer, IRD, France
Chhoun Chamnan, Director of DFPTQ, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Cambodia
Kongsapp Akkhavong, Director General of the NIOPH, Ministry of Health, Lao PDR
Khov Kuong, Socio-economist, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Cambodia
Gentiane Blanchard, Smiling Project Manager, IRD, FRance

from left to right, middleground:

Siti Muslimatum, Researcher, SEAMEO, Indonesia
Mary Chea, Researcher, Ministry of Health NMCHC, Cambodia
Bach Mai Le, Deputy director and expert, Institute of Nutrition, Vietnam
Emorn Wasantwisut, Researcher and former director of the Institute of Nutrition Mahidol University, Thailand
Alida Melse, Researcher, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Elaine Ferguson, Researcher, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medecine, United-Kingdom
Pattanee Winichagoon, Researcher, Institute of Nutrition Mahidol University, Thailand
Marie-Claude Dop, Researcher, IRD, France
Sengchanh Kounnavong, Researcher, Ministry of Health, NIOPH, Lao PDR
Umi Fahmida, Researcher, SEAMEO, Indonesia
Prak Sophonneary, Deputy Director, Ministry of Health NMCHC, Cambodia

from left to right, foreground, the five experts of the Advisory group:

France Begin, Nutrition Advisor in Asia and the Pacific, UNICEF
Barrie Margetts, Professor at the University of Southampton, President of the World Public Health Nutrition Association
Regina Moench-Pfanner, Senior Director, Innovation and Technical Services at GAIN
Luca Tommaso Cavalli-Sforza, Regional Adviser in Nutrition, WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Jean-François Grongnet, Senior Researcher at INRA, France