Saskia Osendarp

Executive Director

Micronutrient Forum

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Saskia Osendarp is the Executive Director of the Micronutrient Forum. She has more than 25 years of experience in international nutrition research in the public and private sectors and is a visiting associate professor of Nutrition and Health at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Saskia holds an MSc and Ph.D. in Nutrition from Wageningen University & Research. Recently, she has been a co-founder and is the co-lead of the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium, a collaboration of experts working in nutrition, food systems, health, and economics analyzing the impact and responses of the COVID19 crisis on malnutrition.

Event Schedule

DAY 1

19 July 2023

DAY 2

20 July 2023

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
02:30 pm EEST	04:00 pm EEST	Taking Action to Close the Gender Nutrition Gap Concurrent Room MH 1-1	Nutrition is a feminist issue. Women and girls bear the brunt of global malnutrition. Gender inequalities underlie why women and girls experience inadequate access to Read More Nutrition is a feminist issue. Women and girls bear the brunt of global malnutrition. Gender inequalities underlie why women and girls experience inadequate access to nutritious diets, nutrition services and poor practices. This session calls for urgent collective action to close the gender nutrition gap. It will showcase the latest evidence on women’s and girls’ nutrition from UNICEF’s flagship report, Undernourished and Overlooked: A Global Nutrition Crisis in Adolescent Girls and Women, and experiences from inspiring leaders and advocates, and launch a global co-created Action Agenda and campaign that calls for bold gender transformative actions to improve women’s and girls’ nutrition. Session format: Thought Leadership Organized by FHI 360, UNICEF, African Leaders for Nutrition, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, EngenderHealth, Micronutrient Forum, Nigeria Health Watch, Youth Advocate Read Less Speakers Rania Dagash-Kamara Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa UNICEF Saskia Osendarp Executive Director Micronutrient Forum Pauline Theresa Mapfumo Youth Advocate European Union Delegation (team Zimbabwe) Youth Sounding Board. Vivianne Ihekweazu Managing Director Nigeria Health Watch Ajay Khera Country Representative, India EngenderHealth Anita Zaidi President Gender Equality Division The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
12:30 pm EEST	02:00 pm EEST	Ensuring Equity in Access to Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation for Pregnant Women Side Event Kigali Convention Center - Room MH 2-2	A side event on maternal nutrition to take place at Women Deliver 2023 (Kigali, Rwanda, 17-20 July 2023). The event seeks to highlight the importance of maternal Read More A side event on maternal nutrition to take place at Women Deliver 2023 (Kigali, Rwanda, 17-20 July 2023). The event seeks to highlight the importance of maternal nutrition and make the case for the equitable provision of multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS) during pregnancy in both development and humanitarian contexts, as well as launch the Sight and Life MMS Special Report 2.0. Organizer: Sight and Life Read Less Speakers Masako Horino Research and Communications Officer UNRWA Health Department Saskia Osendarp Executive Director Micronutrient Forum Elvis Gakuba Sight and Life Rwanda Country Representative -