Erudite scholar on nutrition, and former president, Prof. Babatunde Oguntona would this Friday led other experts to the one-day
2017 Nutrition Symposium being organized
by the Media Centre Against child Malnutrition (MeCAM) in Lagos.
Top speakers
to join Prof. Oguntona in dissecting the theme: "Malnutrition, child
development and the media" on Friday, August 4 at Welcome Centre
Hotels, would include the Project Director at the Civil Society on Scaling-Up
Nutrition Nigeria (CS-SUNN) Mrs. Beatrice Eluaka and chairman, Community Health
and Research Initiative (CHRI) board, Dr Aminu Magashi Garba.Confirming this, the National Coordinator of Media Centre Against child Malnutrition (MeCAM), Mr. Remmy Nweke, said the Country Coordinator, and Scaling-up Nutrition Business Network (SBN) Nigeria, Uduak Igbeka and Head, Nutrition at the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Chris Isokpunwu.
He further said that Prof. Oguntona
was a graduate of University of Ibadan with a degree on Agricultural Biochemistry
and Nutrition in 1970 and holds in addition, M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in
Nutrition from the Universities of London and Nottingham respectively.
Oguntona, he said, was a pioneer
professor at the University of Agriculture Abeokuta (UNAAB) in 1988, and has headed
Department, Dean of College and Centre Director. In 2006 he was made Dean of
Faculty of Agriculture and Rural Development (FAMARD) at the Olabisi Onabanjo
University (Ayetoro Campus).
Prof. Oguntona has trained hundreds of
students at both undergraduate and post graduate levels over the past 36 years.
He season author of both national and international, including co-authoring of
the report on National Food Consumption and Nutritional Status, and the
principal author of Nigerian Food Composition Table.
A Nutrition consultant to the Federal
Ministry of Health for 22 years, Prof. Oguntona and has consulted for several
governments including Ghana, Liberia, Tanzania,
Sierra Leone and Zambia as well as for some International Agencies, among other
organizations.
A recipient of many distinguished
International awards on Nutrition including BP Protein, Leverhulme Trust,
ACU/Carnagie Corporation, to name a few, having been a Professor of Nutrition
since 1990, he is a member of many professional and social organisations. He is
the past president of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria and a fellow of that
society. He is presently the Chair of Nigeria Beverage Panel and is married to
Professor Clara Raquel Oguntona.
MeCAM, he
said, is peopled exclusively by journalists, and mediapreneurs to push the
narratives to save the Nigerian child from the danger of malnutrition through
scaling up reporting and advocacy, among others.Isaac Oyimah/GEE
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