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Fostering a global community of researchers & practitioners focused on #agriculture, #foodsystems, #nutrition & #health 🌱 Housed w/in LSHTM
ANH Academy joins a #D4N2025 session on how homes, schools & markets shape diets across South Asia 🌱🌏

🗓 Dec 3 | 13:30–15:00 NPT
📍Kathmandu & Online
▶️ Join: bit.ly/Zoom_Bagmati

Explore the agenda & register free bit.ly/D4N2025_register!

@ifpri.org @cgiar.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Call for ANH2026 Learning Labs! 🎉

ANH Academy invites proposals for 1–2 hr interactive Labs for ANH Academy Week, online 22–24 June 2026.

👉🏼Open to all disciplines & career stages on themes from climate & conflict to markets & governance.

🔗 Details & apply by 16 Jan 2026: bit.ly/3Kk4dyM #ANH2026
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Join the ANH Academy Science-Policy Platform! 📣

We’re hiring a full-time ANH Academy Manager at LSHTM to support our global network, science-policy engagement & major events. Apply by 5 Dec or share widely!

🔗 jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

#Hiring #LondonJobs #Universityroles #Higheredjobs
Job Opportunity at LSHTM: ANH Academy Manager
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🔔 Starting soon — join @anhacademy.bsky.social today for the @fao.org webinar on Plastics, One Health and Agrifood Systems.

📅 19 November 2025
🕐 14:00 CET

Looking forward to the insights & collaboration emerging from this timely session! fao.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Bridging science and policy: plastics and One Health in agrifood systems. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Bridging science and policy: plastics and One Health in agrifood systems. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting...
fao.zoom.us
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🚨 The climate crisis is a health crisis! COP30 is an integral opportunity to improve our health & that of our planet. 🌏

This EGM on climate change, food systems, nutrition, & health offers a review of existing evidence and critical gaps to help transform evidence into action 🔗 bit.ly/3K7lQli
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🔔 Applications now open for Round 2 of @anhacademy.bsky.social SciPol Fellowships!

1-year placements in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, translating research into policy for equitable, sustainable food systems for healthy diets.🌍

Learn more & apply→ bit.ly/4ox3skD

#Fellowships #SciencePolicy
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🌏 Delivering for Nutrition in South Asia (D4N2025) is back!

Join researchers, policymakers & practitioners in Kathmandu 🇳🇵 & online, Dec 2–4 to explore pathways for scaling nutrition impact across systems from food & health to climate resilience. 🌱

🎟 Register → bit.ly/D4N2025_register
@ifpri.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Research Community on Food Access is hosting a Research Roundtable discussing the prices of healthy diets and foods across 10 countries in Africa. 🫑🌍🍎

Join us tomorrow on 5 Nov | 12:00–13:00 UTC | Zoom: tufts.zoom.us/j/9150600124... to hear insights from 🎤Joyce Grevulo Minofu.

#FoodAccess
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Join the ANH Academy for free to stay updated on the latest research, resources & opportunities from the ANH Community of 13,000 members in 160+ countries. 🌍 www.anh-academy.org/user/register

📰 Check out the October newsletter here bit.ly/47Wfez9
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
New ANH Academy Research Community on Food Supply, Loss & Waste launch 🎉 Hear authors Jocelyn Boiteau & Prabhu Pingali on their book 'Wasted Potential'📘 exploring SDG 12 & reducing food loss & waste across the value chain🌍

📅 30 Oct, 12–13 UTC on Zoom🔗 bit.ly/47tclVl

#FoodLoss #SDG12 #FoodSystems
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
@anhacademy.bsky.social connects 13K+ researchers, practitioners & policymakers across 160+ countries 🌍 working hand in hand for better food & a better future. 🤝

This #WorldFoodDay watch poetry that embodies ANH community's collaboration and purpose 🎥 youtu.be/H4LLedeHm5k

🙌🏼Join bit.ly/46XevNO
ANH2025: Ten Paths to Restoration
YouTube video by ANH_Academy
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October 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The Research Community on Food Access is hosting a Research Roundtable on barriers to healthy diets in Tanzania🇹🇿.
🫑🥕Hear Nishmeet Singh on food choices & issues of access from the perspective of women on 15 October | 12:00–13:00 UTC | Zoom: bit.ly/4nIxUYK

#FoodAccess
October 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🌋 New research: Are water & food insecurity linked with mental distress among men & women after a natural disaster? A paper by IMMANA Fellow @indirabose.bsky.social explores this using the 2022 volcanic eruption data in Tonga 🇹🇴.

📄Read here bit.ly/3ITOwha
October 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Join the ANH Academy for free to stay updated on the latest research, resources & opportunities from the ANH Community of 13,000 members in 160+ countries. 🌍 www.anh-academy.org/user/register

📰 Check out the September newsletter here mailchi.mp/lshtm/anhaca...
October 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🎉 Delighted to introduce the ANH Academy Science-Policy Fellows for 2025-26!

🌍 They are driving evidence-based research and policy solutions to strengthen food systems and improve healthy diets across Ethiopia 🇪🇹, Pakistan 🇵🇰, Nigeria 🇳🇬, and Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

🌱 www.anh-academy.org/science-poli...
September 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🚰 Water insecurity ripples through food, health & livelihoods. At #FoodWise2025, @indirabose.bsky.social stressed tackling food & water insecurities together. Tools like WISE Scales 🌍now used in 55+ countries, make the invisible visible: wisescales.org 💧 #SDG6

@nuwater.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
If you are interested in tools for measuring food environments and diets, then join us for this interactive webinar!

Date: 30 September 2025
Time: 14:00 BST/9:00 EST/18:30 IST

More info here: www.anh-academy.org/community/ev...

Register here: lshtm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The Research Community on Food Access is hosting a roundtable on how income and access to healthy diets relate to diet quality in Malawi. 🌽🍠 Hear @racheldgilbert.bsky.social on Malawi & 🪙 food prices for nutrition on September 17 | 13:00-14:00 UTC | Zoom: bit.ly/3JPOU01 #FoodAccess
September 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The Research Community on Food Access is hosting a roundtable on Optimising Food Supplementation in India 🇮🇳🫛🍚Hear Tinku Thomas on Balancing Energy Needs & Budget Constraints on September 10 | 12:00–13:00 EST | Zoom: bit.ly/4m023Bi
#FoodAccess
September 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Global plastics treaty talks stall – but health focus fuels new momentum

Megan Deeney discusses Lancet Countdown on health and plastics as a new global initiative aiming to track health impacts of #plastics pollution.

www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
August 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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📢 Launch of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics

On August 4, a new report will offer an up-to-date assessment of the links between health and plastic pollution.

Find out more and register ⤵️ tessforum.org/latest/launc...
TESS - Launch Event: Announcing The Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics
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July 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Plastics are in our oceans, air, food & us – even before birth, states Megan Deeney at INC 5.2 in Geneva. Production & waste will triple by 2060. Most of 16K+ chemicals are unregulated. #PlasticsTreaty must deliver a strong treaty to protect people & planet! 🌍 #INC5
@scientistscoa.bsky.social ‬‪
August 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The Research Community on Food Access is hosting a roundtable on how balanced diets, food prices & gender dynamics shape dietary diversity in households. 👥🥗📈

Hear Martin Chegere on 🌆 rural & urban Tanzania & agricultural links 🇹🇿 on Aug 13 | 09:00–10:00 EST | Zoom: bit.ly/4fCotXC

#FoodAccess
August 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Plastic pollution will almost triple from 2019-20 at current rates.

What does this mean for health?

🔄 In @thelancet.com a new Health Policy outlines dangers at every stage of the plastic lifecycle —and steps for change.

➡️http://bit.ly/4mvtjZ8
August 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by ANH Academy Science-Policy Platform
"Just Transition" is a key principle in the climate dialogues when we talk about decarbonising our economies. It means this shift must be fair for communities who will be most affected.

It is much less invoked in the context of food systems, however...

news.thin-ink.net/p/fair-food-...
Fair Food Futures: Notes from Dar
Centring justice in the transformation of our food systems
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June 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM