title: Exploring culture in the world of international nutrition and nutrition sciences.
abstract: This symposium was organized to bring insights from the social sciences into the awareness of nutrition scientists committed to developing and implementing effective nutrition interventions internationally. The symposium explored three different areas in the field where a more precise analysis of culture could enhance the effectiveness of nutrition science: 1) in the implementation of nutrition science research in the field; 2) in the collaboration of multiple stakeholders working to enhance nutrition in a national setting; and 3) in the language and discussions used to frame proposed changes in large scale food and nutrition security policy transnationally. Three social scientists, Monique Centrone Stefani, Lucy Jarosz, and David Pelletier were invited to share insights from their respective disciplines and respondents from within the field of nutrition provided initial reflections to better understand such perspectives. The symposium's interdisciplinary nature was designed to illustrate the challenge of multiple perspectives and methodologies and to advance understanding that could derive from such an exchange for those in the field of international nutrition seeking to decrease global hunger and malnutrition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.
authors.forename: Monique
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Centrone Stefani
authors.forename: Debbie L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Humphries
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D004032:Diet / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000208:ethnology; D014943:Global Health / Q000208:ethnology; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D058025:Interdisciplinary Studies / Q000639:trends; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D012942:Social Sciences / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D014481:United States
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