Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to invite you to an upcoming webinar hosted by Breakthrough ACTION and USAID Advancing Nutrition. I hope you will join us!
Improving feeding of young children during and after illness: A behavioral design approach
April 13, 2022
8:00–9:00 a.m. (Washington, DC)
Check your time zone: https://dateful.com/convert/washington-dc?t=8am&tz2=Accra-Ghana
DESCRIPTION
For young children experiencing an illness, adequate nutrition is critical to recovery. However, children often do not receive the recommended amounts of food during and after an illness. In this webinar, Breakthrough ACTION and USAID Advancing Nutrition will share insights from a behavioral design process completed in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The qualitative research we conducted with families and health workers underscored that caregivers want to feed their children well, but it also highlighted several behavioral factors that lead them to feel discouraged and at times powerless by the constraints they face. Through a collaborative design process, we developed solutions that help families set achievable goals for feeding during and after illness, expand their choice set to include additional affordable and nutritious local foods, build skills and confidence to overcome limited appetite, and celebrate each bite as a small victory. We will share insights from the design process, including prototypes that were tested and dropped from the solution set, as well as implications of the work for a global audience.
The webinar will be presented in English and French, with simultaneous interpretation.
REGISTER TO ATTEND
https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_guUh8Y2VQxeVAZ9Tnd0sww
Best regards,
Marcela Aguilar, MHS
Communications Director
Breakthrough ACTION
HIFA profile: Marcela Aguilar is Director of Communications at Breakthrough ACTION, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Washington DC. www.breakthroughactionandresearch.org marcela.aguilar AT jhu.edu
