The Trials and Tribulations of India’s Nutrition Journey: Connecting the Dots between Evidence and Policy in a Fast-moving context

Speaker: Dr. Purnima Menon, senior research fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi who is the theme leader for South Asia Nutrition Programmes at IFPRI’s Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division

Chair: Shri Siraj Hussain, Visiting Senior Fellow, ICRIER

In this lecture, Dr. Purnima Menon will reflect on India’s nutrition policy journey in the last decade, speaking from the perspective of a researcher engaged in supporting the policy community with data, evidence and experiential knowledge.  Tackling complex and wicked challenges such as malnutrition require comprehensive approaches that fully consider the intersections of evidence with the diversity of policy and action communities.  Dr. Menon will highlight instances where evidence, policy and actions have come together well and instances where the disconnects are deep.