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Invited	response	email known?	name	email
y		e	Beata Bishop
y			Bernard Gesch
y		e	Ted Tuddenham
y			Sustain
y			IBCHN - individually
			Bob Johnson
			Clara Lowy
			Margaret Rayman
		e	Toshiko Matsudaira	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
			Tim Lang
			Trevor Skeates
			SAGE: Char,Naomi,Tom,Rob,Neil,Saj
		e	Edward Maile Eat2Treat	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
		e	Joseph Lightfoot Eat2Treat	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
			Soil Assoc
			Michelle Berriedale-Johnson
			Frank Hucklebridge
			Robert Andrew Brown - Treas
			Simon House - Chair
			David Marsh – NL Ed
			Rachel Gow - Sec
			Marion Bowles(Scot)
			Jane, David's sister.
			Jennifer Derham
			Mark Almond
			Jay Truscott
			Catherine Walmsley
			Bob Hare
			Trevor Bennett– WebM
			CHARLOTTE SAMUEL
			Charlotte Jardine, SAGE
			Claire Minto (Publisher) Sage?
			??Michael Crawford - Presdt

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The Importance of Dietary Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Disorders of Mood, Behaviour and Cognition:  Current Evidence and Implications for Policy and Practice
Venue:  University of Oxford  On:  Tuesday 31st January,  5.00pm – 6.00pm
FAB Research is proud to announce this special lecture by one of our Scientific Advisory Board.  It is open to Oxford University members only, although a few places are available free of charge to Food and Behaviour Research (FAB) Associate Members.  (Not an Associate Member?  If you'd like to join us so you can attend this event, please do so online at the FAB Research website here:  Subscribe to FAB Research <http://www.fabresearch.org/view_item.aspx?item_id=212> .)
Organised by: the Food and Behaviour Research Group at the Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention (CEBI), led by Dr Alex Richardson and Professor Paul Montgomery.
CAPT Joseph R Hibbeln MD, Section of Nutritional Neurosciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. <http://www.fabresearch.org/view_item.aspx?item_id=545>
Dr Joe Hibbeln is one of the world's leading experts on the importance of dietary fats for human brain development and function.  A psychiatrist and lipid biochemist by training, his work has been focused for many years on translating basic neuroscience on the omega-3 essential fatty acids docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) (found in fish and seafood) into direct clinical applications. He has contributed more than 80 peer-reviewed publications to the research literature, and he is frequently sought out to communicate scientific findings in this field though major public media.
In this special seminar for CEBI he will review the latest evidence for his hypothesis that relative deficiencies in omega-3 can increase the risk of depression, violence, and suicide as well as other developmental and psychiatric disorders in both children and adults, discussing the implications of this evidence for public health policy and clinical practice.
Please let us know asap if you would like to attend by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .   
We apologise for the very late announcement of this newly organized addition to Dr Hibbeln's UK schedule, but hope that some of our UK-based Associate Members may be able to attend.
Kind regards
Fiona
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The 30th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Committee (CAC) will meet from 2-7 July in Rome.  Mr Steve Wearne and Mr Bill Knock will represent the UK at the meeting.

In preparation for this meeting, the Food Standards Agency is planning to hold a National Codex Consultative Committee (NCCC) meeting, for Committee Members and other interested parties, in mid June to discuss the agenda for the CAC meeting.   This will take place at Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH.  We will contact you within the next few weeks with further details on this meeting.  The agenda for this meeting is now available on-line and you will be able to obtain further documents from the Codex Alimentarius website as they are made available.

Please contact Stephen Borg by email or on 020 7276 8165 or Fax: 020 7276 8376
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Room 115B, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NH
 

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First Press comment Oct 26th 2006 From The Economist print edition

 (Premium contentent for subscribers to The Economist only)

A Symposium of the Letten and Mother and Child Foundations 

In collaboration with the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition at the London Metropolitan University  

Epigenetics in relation to malnutrition, brain function andinfection. The spread of the HIV epidemic in Africa.  

There are 15 million HIV orphans worldwide.  Of these, 12 million are in Africa south of the Sahara. That is 12 million in a population of 800 million and only 2-3 million in a population of 5 billion! There has to be some very good reason for this gross discrepancy.  

Epigenetics in human brain function.Improving nutrition and increasing resistance to infection in fighting the HIV epidemic in Africa 

Day 1, Afternoon - Novartis Foundation Conference Room.Sunday 22^nd October 2.00- 6.00 pm Chair: Christopher Bernard (Marseille), Michel Khrestathishe (Marseille) 
 
2-2.30 Prof Letten F. Saugstad (Letten Foundation, Oslo, Norway). Welcome. Kraeplin’s dichotomy. Manic-depressive psychosis and dementia praecox are part of human growth and maturation, neurological diseases at the extremes of cerebral excitability, the fundamental property of nervous tissue.
 

2.30 - 3.00 Dr. Fernando Gomez-Pinilla (University of California, Los Angeles, USA). Epigenetic influences of dietary factors and environment on cognitive plasticity. 
 

3.00 - 3.30 Dr. Pierre-Marie Lledo (Pasteur Institute, Paris, France). Nature and Nurture in Adult Neurogenesis. 
 
3.30 – 4.00 Tea 

Chair: Prof Michael A Crawford (Institute of Brain Chemistry, London).
 
4.00- 4.30 Dr. Tom Brenna (Cornell University, Ithica, USA). Neuroscience: Nutritional factors in neurogenesis and the relative importance of different types of essential fatty acids.
 
4.30- 5.00 Dr. Stephen Cunnane (Research Centre on Aging, Universite de Sherbrooke University, Canada). Nutrition and neurodegeneration.

5.00 – 5.30 Marten W. deVries (Sociale Psychiatrie Centre for Public Mental Health, Netherlands). “Babies, Brains and Culture". African infant development, diverse outcomes and precocity.
 
7.30- 9.00 Buffet at the Novartis Great Room with African music

 

 

Day 2 at the Royal Society, 6 Carlton House Terrace, SW1 Monday 23^rd October 2006:  9.15 am – 6.00 pm tel: +44 (0)20 7451 2500

Improving nutrition and increasing resistance to infections, fighting the HIV epidemic  in Africa. Chair: Prof B. Stray-Pedersen (Dept. Ob/ Gyn, University of Oslo, Norway) 

9.15 – 9.35 Prof Letten F. Saugstad (Letten Foundation, Oslo, Norway). Introduction.  

9.35 – 9.55 Dr Chinwe Dike (UN representative in Swaziland). The HIV epidemic and women’s right. 

9.55- 10.25 Prof Michael Chirenje (Dept Ob/Gyn, University of Zimbabwe, Harare).  Evidence based strategies for HIV prevention including mother-to child transmission (MTCT).  

Focus on infections Chair: Prof Simba Rusakaniko (Harare, University of Zimbabwe)  

10.25 – 10.55 Prof Babill Stray Pedersen (Dept Ob/Gyn, University of Oslo, Norway). Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV in pregnant women. Discordance between two countries in Africa?  

10.55 – 11.15 Dr Sia Msuya (Moshi, Tanzania). Decline in HIV prevalence among women in childbearing age in Moshi, Tanzania 

11.15 – 11.35 Tea 

11.35 – 11.55 Mr Marshall Munjoma (Dept  Ob/Gyn, University of Zimbabwe). Incidence of HIV and herpes among women followed for one year after birth in a Zimbabwean cohort. 

11.55 – 12.15 Christopher Mtamakaya (Moshi, Tanzania). Male involvement in HIV transmission in Tanzania. 

11.15 – 12.35 Mrs Edith Nyaradzai. (Dept Ob/Gyn, University of Zimbabwe, Harare). Follow-up studies of mother-infant pairs: challenges in the African settings. 

12.35 – 12.55 Dr Jackie Uriyo (KCMC, Tanzania). Development of infants, especially neurobehavioral outcome according to the HIV status.

1.00 – 2.00 Lunch

Focus on Nutrition Chair:  Helga Refsum (Oslo and Oxford Universities) 

2.00 - 2.30 Professor Keb Ghebremeskel (IBCHN, London). Protein-Calorie Malnutrition (PCM) Revisited. Should the nutritional treatment incorporate essential fatty acids?

2.30 –3.00 Dr Laurence Harbige (Westminster University, London). The impact of nutrition on pre and post- natal immune development and its relevance for HIV. 

3.00 – 3.30 Dr Mark Swai (KCMC, Tanzania). Impact of nutrition on African children - especially in the HIV setting. 

3.30 – 3.50 Prof Helga Refsum (Oxford and Oslo University). Nutrition in pregnancy; focus upon vitamin B and folic acid.  

3.50 – 4.20 Dr Cato Aall (Lusaka, Zambia). Thoughts around the catastrophic NAIDS (Nutritionally Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndromes). 

4.20 – 4.40 Tea 

Short communications Chairpersons: Enitan Ogondipe (Chelsea and Westminster Medical School, Imperial College) 

4.40 – 4.50Dr Jackie Uriyo (KCMC, Tanzania). Maternal Omega 3 supplementation: report on developmental outcome of infants from a pilot study in Tanzania. 

4.50 – 5.00 Dr Gwen Kandawazvika (Dept Paediatrics, University of Zimbabwe). Outcome of Infants after maternal omega 3 supplementation: report from a pilot study in Zimbabwe  

Focus upon information and support 

5.00 – 5.10 Dr. Elisabeth Mibizo (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies). Theatre as a tool in health promotion of fighting the HIV epidemic. 

5.10 – 5.20 Dr Jennifer Mugisha  (President of Uganda Women Medical Doctors). The Ugandan story of fighting HIV. 

5.20 – 6.00 Discussion

 

 

3rd Day, CLOSED - Speakers and Chairs only

Oct 24 9.15 am to 1.00 pm: The Novartis Foundation

A DISCUSSION

NOTE:

The proceedings at the Royal Society are open to the public and media on registration. The proceedings on the Sunday will be also open to the public but the numbers wil be more limited and early notification is requested.

Contact Catherine Lehane at the Institute of Brain Chemistry, London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Rd., London N7 8DB.

Telephone 020 7133 2926

Cheque payments, payable to The Mother and Child Foundation, may be sent to this address.

Press Officer: David Marsh 020 8741 1998

Cost

Prices include contributions to the Foundation’s cost of the speakers travel costs, meeting place, coffee, teas, lunch and buffet/ dinner as appropriate. Full Time Student price excludes the buffet/ dinners.	Day 1 Novartis 22 Oct 2006 2pm-6pm Bookable spaces <30	Day 2 Royal Society 23 Oct 2006 9:15am-6pm Bookable spaces <60	Day 3 Novartis 24 Oct 2006 9:15am-1pm  CLOSED
McCarrison Society Members	£20	£40
NHS, University, Charities	£37.50	£75
FT Students(not including lunch or dinner	£7.50	£15
All other categories If paying On-line by 16 OCT	£87.50 (£75)	£175 (£150)

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Saturday 14th October 2006 at 11am

Steele Conference Suite, Perth Royal Infirmary

 “PESTICIDES IN FOOD - LINKS TO M.E.?”

Dr Paula Baillie Hamilton M.D. PhD.

“How pesticides make us sick”

Dr Vance Spence

Chairman  M.E. Research UK

“Is there a case for artificial chemicals in the development and / or persistence of some cases of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?”

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Joint World Congress in Moscow, 20-24 May 2007 : 
The 17th International Congress of the International Society of Pre- & Perinatal Psychology & Medicine (ISPPM) and
6th All-Russia Congress of the Russian Association for Pre- & Perinatal Development (RAPPD)

THE PRENATAL CHILD AND SOCIETY: The Role of Prenatal Psychology in Obstetrics, Neonatology, Psychology and Sociology

GOALS of the Congress:
1. An exchange of research results and practical successes between leading psychologists, psychotherapists and doctors from Europe, America, Asia and Australia to encourage further theoretical and practical development of pre- and perinatal psychology and medicine.

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