Gates Foundation Awards $420,000 to OHSU for Women’s Nutrition and Wellness Summit

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Thursday, October 09, 2014

Kirsten Nicolaisen, GoLocalPDX Digital Producer

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded nearly $420,000 to the Moore Institute for Nutrition and Wellness at Oregon Health and Science University to develop and host The International Summit on the Nutrition of Adolescent Girls and Young Women. The summit will be held in Portland, May 14-17 2015.

Over 60 global leaders in nutritional science and nutrition intervention programs will be invited to participate in the summit, which will work to address how food availability and choices among young women and girls can be improved, and international policies that would benefit the status of women across the globe and improve their access to nutritious food, according to OHSU. 

"Hosting this summit will allow the Moore Institute to expand its global reach while working to improve the health of adolescent girls and women in the developing world,” said Kent Thornburg, Ph.D., director of the OHSU Moore Institute. 

The goal of the summit is to build lasting connections between nutrition scientists and practitioners in developing countries. Currently these groups have little communication with one another resulting in a gap between advances in nutrition and access to knowledge of these advances for undernourished people, according to OHSU.

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