Dr Francesco Branca Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland Francesco Branca is the Director of the Department of Nutrition and Food safety in the World Health Organization, Geneva. During his tenure, WHO has developed a WHO Nutrition strategy, established a new nutrition guideline development process and has developed a Comprehensive Implementation Plan on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition with six global targets. He has been leading the preparation of the 2nd International Conference on Nutrition and the Secretariat of the Decade of Action on Nutrition. He has been a Senior Scientist at the Italian Food and Nutrition research Institute where he was leading studies on the effects of food and nutrients on human health at the different stages of the life cycle and on the impact of public health nutrition programmes. He has been President of the Federation of the European Nutrition Societies in 2003-2007. Dr Branca graduated in Medicine and Surgery and specialized in Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases at the Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma and obtained a PhD in Nutrition at Aberdeen University.

MONTH	DATE	TIME	SESSION	SESSION TITLE
Nov 2020	05 Nov	08.00- 09.30 (BKK)	WS203	Social Determinants of Health