The deadline to submit an abstract has now passed.

We sought proposals for oral and poster presentations that met the conference objectives, which were to:

•   Identify strategies for civil society, government and academia to partner with the private sector in addressing the nutritional needs of vulnerable populations

•   Leverage private sector products, services, technologies and practices that support the nutritional needs of vulnerable populations

Each objective has three tracks which are:

Objective 1:   Identify strategies for civil society, government and academia to partner with the private sector in addressing the nutritional needs of vulnerable populations

• Track 1:   Partnership models between the private sector and other entities (government, civil society, INGOs, academia) for improved nutrition


• Track 2:   Donor investments in facilitating private sector partnerships with civil society, government and academics for improved nutrition


• Track 3:  Private sector business models that support nutritional outcomes

Objective 2:   Leverage private sector products, technologies and practices that support the nutritional needs of vulnerable populations

• Track 1:  Current and promising products, services, technologies and practices for improved nutrition


• Track 2: Sharing experiences in building the evidence on private sector products, services, technologies and practices that improve nutritional outcomes


• Track 3:  Initiatives for ensuring the safety, cost-effectiveness and quality of products, services, technology and practices that meet the nutritional needs of vulnerable populations

Selection Criteria

All abstracts will be blind and peer reviewed according to these criteria:

• Relevance to the conference objectives
• Overall quality (clarity, organization, and completeness)
• Innovation with respect to promising practices
• Timeliness of the information and applicability to current needs of stakeholders
• Advancement of knowledge in the field and potential for global public health application
• Extent to which the presentation bridges research and practice (for research abstracts)
• Methodological rigor (for research abstracts)
• data Quality of the data on performance/innovations/lessons learned (for experiential learning abstracts)

Timeline for submission and notifications were:

• June 30, 2016: Deadline for abstract submission.
• July 22 2016: Selected authors are notified if their abstract has been accepted for oral or poster presentation at the conference.
• September 26, 2016: Submission packets are due for all presenters for review, including the final presentation abstract and draft PowerPoint presentation (oral presentations), final poster abstract and draft poster.  All presenters must be registered.
• October 24, 2016:  Final submission packets are due for all presenters, including the PowerPoint presentation (oral presentations) and final PDF poster image.

If you have any questions, please contact Integrated_Nutrition_Conference@crs.org