Webinar on the 2026 Global Nutrition Report: Integrating Food and Health Systems for Climate-Resilient Nutrition

This webinar, co-organised by the Global Nutrition Report and the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network, offered a discussion on the latest evidence and practical lessons for advancing climate-resilient nutrition.

Date: 16 September 2026

Time: 8:00 AM EDT (Washington, DC/New York) | 12:00 PM UTC | 1:00 PM BST (London) | 2:00 PM CEST (Geneva/Paris) | 4:00 PM EAT (Nairobi) | 5:30 PM IST (New Delhi) | 8:00 PM CST (Beijing) | 9:00 PM JST (Tokyo)

The 2026 Global Nutrition Report focuses on one of the defining challenges of our time: ensuring healthy diets for all as climate change and other shocks increasingly disrupts both food and health systems. The report argues that protecting and improving nutrition outcomes requires moving beyond siloed approaches and adopting integrated, crisis-resilient strategies that connect food systems, health systems and social protection.

This webinar provided an opportunity to translate the report's findings into practical lessons for national stakeholders. By bringing together government representatives, civil society leaders and development partners from different regions, the discussion focused on how countries can apply the report's recommendations to strengthen resilience, improve accountability and accelerate nutrition progress.

Webinar recording coming soon!

Moderator

  • Irshad Danish, Co-chair, Global Nutrition Report Stakeholder Group, and Chair, SUN Civil Society Network Steering Group

Opening remarks

  • Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

Report Presenters

  • Shibani Ghosh, Co-chair, Independent Expert Group, Global Nutrition Report, and Associate Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University
  • Giacomo Zanello, Co-chair, Independent Expert Group, Global Nutrition Report, and Professor in Food Economics and Health and Head of the Agri-Food Economics and Marketing Department, University of Reading

Panelists

  • Marianella Feoli Peña, Executive Director, Fundecooperación para el Desarrollo Sostenible, Costa Rica
  • Uju Rochas-Anwukah, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Health, Focal Person, Nutrition, Office of the Vice President, Nigeria
  • Diana Umali, Nutrition Officer, Food Security and Nutrition, Philippines Programme, International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) and Coordinator, SUN CSA Philippines
  • Karima Ahmed Al-Hada'a, Planning and Liaison Specialist, Ministry of Planning & International Cooperation, Yemen, and SUN Secretariat Yemen, and Assistant National Food Systems Convenor

Closing remarks

  • Alexandra Newlands, Head, Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network Secretariat

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