Building Public-Private Partnerships in Food and Nutrition - Wo

• Posted by Community News and Resources June 8, 2012 - Filed in Health & Nutrition - #Health  #Nutrition  #govenment  #Institute of Medicine of the National Academies  - 223 views

  The leading public health problems - ranging from rising obesity rates to the fast-growing population of older adults - are so complex that no single sector can effectively address them alone. To solve them requires collaborative partnership between the public and private sectors, including industry, government, academia, and nongovernmental organizations. The IOM's Food Forum held a workshop in November 2011 to better understand how to build multisectoral food and nutrition partnerships that achieve meaningful public health results. The workshop brought together stakeholders from multiple sectors to discuss the benefits of these partnerships, and what needs to be done to foster partnership development to promote public health.

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