Welcome to Rio2012. Here are spirals from a drawing, an octopus, a salad, a sanctuary, a railing, a museum, from all continents, as are our participants
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Geoffrey Cannon writes: Welcome to Rio2012. Here is the second issue of our website and of World Nutrition celebrating the opening of our first world congress, created and organised with our partners the national Brazilian public health organisation Abrasco. This issue came on-line on 26 April, to greet our congress. We also greet all our readers all over the world who will not be physically present at Rio2012. Our congress is crucial to us all. We believe that what's being achieved in Rio, thanks above all to the teams of volunteers masterminded by congress executive secretary Inês Rugani, is the turning point that so many of us have hoped and planned for. This is the revival of public health as fundamental to achieve and maintain decent and equitable societies, with nutrition at its heart.
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As I see it
Philip James
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Philip James writes: I'm told that my job this month is simply to welcome our Rio2012 conference. I have been pressing colleagues to realise that conferences, journals, and now websites, are mere means to the end of making differences for the better in the real world. I have been asked to explain this, and one of my responses is published in World Nutrition this month. So my brief note here contradicts my main point! This is that we – starting please with readers who are generations younger than me – as professionals and as citizens, must right now think and act as, and so become, leaders in this world.
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World Nutrition Rio 2012
Enjoy a marvellous visit
How to get around in Rio to enjoy the marvellous city during and after our
Rio2012 conference. Get a map and learn about the best kind of transport
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Fabio Gomes and Isabela Sattamini report: Let's hope that lots of participants at our Rio2012 congress have decided to stay on after it ends. The first thing every visitor to Rio needs is a map of the city. The graphic above gives you an idea why. The city is around 50 kilometres from end to end. Traffic is constricted by steep hills, even mountains, inside the city, and long tunnels through them. Good advice is to enjoy the areas close to your hotel, like those we have already recommended, or else to get realistic estimates from the concierge about the time trips take. This month we give you some advice about transport – taxis, buses, the metro system, urban trains, and the ferry across the bay. What's the best way to visit a Rio favela (shanty-town) most of which are on the city's steep hills? Read on...
Local tips for your visit to Rio de Janeiro
This month we feature some more tips from Rio citizens Fabio Gomes and
Isabela Sattamini: getting around, the best form of transport, non-touristic strolls.
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Congress of the World Public Health Nutrition Association with
Abrasco (the Brazilian Association of Collective Health)
to be held in Rio de Janeiro, 27-30 April 2012
Our eighth and truly final line-up of speakers
Luiz Facchini and friend, Sharon Friel, Bjorn Ljungqvist, Cecilia Castillo,
Branca Legetic, Muhammad Ali Dhansay: our really final speaker line-up
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On the left above is the co-host of Rio2012, Luiz Augusto Facchini, president of our Brazilian partners Abrasco, enjoying a joke with Dilma Rousseff, president of the republic of Brazil. Other speakers here shown here are Sharon Friel, from the Australian National University; Bjorn Ljungqvist, head of UNICEF in Ethiopia; Cecilia Castillo, Chilean consumer champion; Branca Legetic of the Pan American Health Organization; and Muhammad Ali Dhansay of the Medical Research Council, South Africa.
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Members
Profiles
From the UK, southern Africa and Australia; Australia; Finland and Laos;
Italy and Brazil; Poland; and Iraq and Malaysia. Our members get around!
The membership team reports: The membership team reports: Every time we introduce new profiles of members, we remember that public health and nutrition are indeed global. All continents except North America are represented this month. From the left, Karen Charlton, born in the UK, is from southern Africa and also Australia, as is David Pearson; Jenni Vaarno from Finland has worked in Laos and the Solomon Islands; Francesco Sintoni from Italy has come this year to Brazil; Malgorzata Schlegel-Zawadzda is from Poland; and Husanain Faisal Ghazi from Iraq is working in Malaysia.
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This month
Celebrating our young leaders
Fabio Gomes, Sabrina Ionata, Reggie Annan: three young professionals who
are now leaders within the Association, our website and WN, and Rio 2012
In his As I see it column this month, Philip James, one of the Association's most distinguished members, calls for young professionals to come forward and become leaders in the Association and in our work. It's all happening now! Above left is Fabio Gomes from Brazil, our membership secretary, and one of the Rio2012 programme convenors, who in the picture is shooting the breeze in a Rio fruit juice bar. Read him this month on the delights of Rio. Next is Sabrina Ionata, our general secretary, living in Norway, who keeps all the members of our Council in line, and is one of the Rio2012 operational committee convenors. Then is our columnist Reggie Annan from Ghana, who is one of the invited opening and closing plenary speakers at Rio2012. Read the visions of Fabio, Sabrina and Reggie in World Nutrition this month.
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Previous months
Arriving in Rio
Welcome to Rio2012. Here are spirals from a temple, a bowl, a street painting,
a jet engine, a fern, a staircase, from all continents, as are our participants
So many more treats! Last month we carried stories by Philip James from Greece, Malaysia and Indonesia, Claudio Schuftan in Congo-Kinshasa, Reggie Annan in Ghana, and Geoffrey Cannon telling tales of Cokeistan in Acapulco and of the Bovril Two. Our home page included Fabio Gomes and Isabela Sattamini guiding Rio2012 participants to the marvellous city's nightlife, and more profiles of Rio2012 speakers and Association members from all round the world.
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