Join us Wednesday, June 26, as CIC-Saskatoon hosts an exciting evening of networking and learning – SCIC Global Connections in Saskatoon. Global Connections has run for quite some time now to bring together people and organizations that share an interest in the 17 sustainable development goals adopted by all United Nations members in 2015.

Come exchange ideas and build valuable connections! Networking begins at 5:00 pm, with an exciting presentation at 5:30. Come early, and after we formally wrap up at 7:00 pm.

(If the Eventbrite link gives you an error, come anyway.)

This month, we are pleased to present the great Carol Henry as she presents on the topic “Pulse Food Systems Solutions: A Strategy for enhanced food security, women empowerment and Dietary lifestyle behaviours”

About our speaker: Carol Henry is a recognized international scholar-practitioner in community-engaged research, international development, and teaching and learning. She leads multi-partner, multi-faceted programs addressing the determinants of and solutions to food security and malnutrition through understanding the complex nature of food systems, food processing and development, and nutrition interventions. Over the past 15 years, her team has worked on nutrition-related research, teaching, and development project at home and abroad, including but not limited to Africa, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. Her research interests also include school and community health, child nutrition, children’s and consumer literacy and health, adolescent health, and food security, as well as food systems as they relate to technologies and the organization of health service workers, international development, and partnership. Carol is a member of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, Dietitians of Canada, American Dietetic Association, and Canadian Women in Global Health.