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: A whole range of experience and special interests is represented by the six members we profile this month. Karen Charlton has done pioneering work on nutrtition and ageing in southern Africa. David Pearson specialises in food branding, advertising and marketing. From experience in Laos and the Solomon Islands as well as her native Finland, Jenni Vaarno believes in the value of good local food. Francesco Sintoni from Italy in inspired by the work of the social reformer Josué de Castro and as a result is studying in Pernambuco, Brazil. Malgorzata Schlegel-Zawadzda from Poland also sees the big picture, of the multi-dimensional New Nutrition Science. Husanain Faisal Ghazi from Iraq will always remember the nutritional suffering of children in his country of Iraq.

Our appeal

Now it is the time to ask you, our members and our other readers, for active support. We on the membership team, and also we on the publications team, need more colleagues to be working with us. This support can take many forms. For example, we are looking for members who are prepared to form networks with other members, and also to recruit new members, in their country or region. For example, we are looking for members who can commit to writing from time to time for our home page, say every three months, about the work they are doing, preferably in the field. If you have skills that you believe can be useful to the Association, let's hear about them. Write to me at the address below, please. Don't hesitate, write now!