HEC join hands with SUN to promote research on nutrition, food security

Islamabad: Higher Education commission of Pakistan (HEC) as well as Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement have agreed to join hands in fight against malnutrition through advocacy as well as the promotion of research on nutrition.

The development took place during a meeting of SUN Assistant Secretary General Gerda Verburg accompanied by the team of committee on nutrition along with the Executive Director of Higher Education Commission Dr Arshad Ali at the Commission Secretariat on Wednesday.

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While conversing on the event, HEC chairperson Dr Arshad Ali said that higher education commission had been promoting research based on solutions to social matters, adding that the nutrition and food security were very important regions that required to be focused on during research activities. He guaranteed that the SUN team of full cooperation in advocacy as well as promotion of nutrition through the higher education zone.

He stressed on the requirement for coordination among academia as well as the private sector with respect to the awareness regarding importance of nutrition, especially for women and for children as well.