<h1 style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 2.4pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt"><a name="11ce7705292fe24c_Story4"><b><font face="Arial" color="#339966" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #339966; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">YOUNG Public Health Nutrition NETWORK</span></font></b></a><font face="Arial" color="#339966"><span style="COLOR: #339966; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></h1>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 2.4pt"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Many of this century's health challenges will be related to food and agriculture policies: food safety, security and cost; famines and obesity; climate change etc. The field of public health nutrition will therefore emerge as a high profile and important profession globally. </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 2.4pt"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Every year, hundreds of young people trained in public health nutrition graduate around the world. They wish to make a meaningful contribution to the international arena of public health and to successfully integrate into the global health workforce. In an effort to bring together these young professionals, a group of young public health nutritionists founded the Young Public Health Nutrition (YPHN) Network. </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 2.4pt"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">The vision of the YPHN Network is to advance and promote international public health nutrition by uniting young public health nutritionists and facilitating collaboration and cooperation among them. </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 2.4pt"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">In order to pursue this, the YPHN Network aims: to devise approaches for young public health nutritionists to influence relevant policies; to provide opportunities to enable the exchange of individuals, and ideas across institutions and networks, within and between countries; and to collaborate with other public health nutrition initiatives, including the Steering Committee of the New Nutrition Science project and the World Public Health Nutrition Association.</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 2.4pt"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">The YPHN Network is open to all who are interested in improving the next generation of public health nutrition: 'young', proficient and more senior experts in public health nutrition, with experience and knowledge to pass on to the others, are welcome to join.</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 2.4pt"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">A blog site has been created, and is accessible to all interested individuals through the link: <font color="blue"><span style="COLOR: blue"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://yphnutrition.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://yphnutrition.blogspot.com/</a></span></font>. </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 2.4pt"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">For further information or if you wish to become a member of this network please contact us: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:yph.nutrition@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="COLOR: windowtext">yph.nutrition@gmail.com</span></font></a></span></font></p>