Saurabh Mehta

Panel discussion: Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Julia Finkelstein, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology Barbara Miheso, Research Scientist, Kenya Medical Research Institute and Co-Director, Cochrane Kenya Karla Soares-Weiser, Chief Executive Officer, Cochrane February 18, 2:20 - 3:30m UTC, Register now

Join us for a panel celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, featuring Julia Finkelstein & Barbra Miheso and hosted by Karla Soares-Weiser.

🎤 Hear their experiences
💡 Get their advice
❓ Ask your questions

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Games — Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health | Cornell Human Ecology

The theme is “Child’s Play” and focuses on words connected to supporting a child’s growth and development and the importance of school based programs. More nutrition-themed puzzles: cpnh.cornell.edu/games.

Read the report of our WG in @nutritionorg.bsky.social 's jn.nutrition.org/article/S002...

Puzzmo - Bongo Play Bongo on Puzzmo, Five words. Infinite strategies.

I am excited to share my first published puzzle in partnership with @puzzmo.com as a lighter companion to our work on #child #nutrition globally, especially the BOND-KIDS initiative. More at cpnh.cornell.edu/bond-kids.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Global Health After the Breakpoint: Evidence for What Comes Next. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. 2025 has been a breakpoint for global health. Aid donors have slashed billions in funding, triggering catastrophic impacts. Amid these cuts, the global health system faces cascading shocks including g...

On Dec 2 2025 at 10am ET, I'll moderate a webinar on:

"Global Health After the Breakpoint: Evidence for What Comes Next"

Key note speaker: John-Arne Røttingen, CEO, Wellcome Trust

4 panelists: Ebere Okereke, Osondu Ogbuoji, Sam McPherson, Nina Schwalbe

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GitHub - cpnh/SciDaEx: Structured data extraction from research literature Structured data extraction from research literature - cpnh/SciDaEx

💡 Design - Human in the loop model - Human‑AI collaboration demonstrating how tools augment, not replace, expert judgment.

🌟Open source code - github.com/cpnh/SciDaEx

#ArtificialIntelligence #SystematicReviews

#edusky #academicsky

🤖 How SciDaSynth works - Powered by large language models, it answers user queries by pulling relevant information from diverse sources.
Generates ready‑to‑use data tables automatically.
Offers validation & refinement: visual summaries, semantic grouping, and cross‑document consistency checks.

SciDaSynth: Interactive Structured Data Extraction From Scientific Literature With Large Language Model The explosion of scientific literature has made the efficient and accurate extraction of structured data a critical component for advancing scientific knowledge and supporting evidence-based decision...

More details:
🚀 Introducing #SciDaSynth – an interactive system that lets researchers turn complex multimodal data — text, tables, figures — and scientific literature into structured data tables.

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System workflow of SciDaSynth: (1) Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) based technical framework for extracting and structuring data from figures, text, and tables in scientific documents using LLMs. (2) The user interface then allows for data extraction via question-answering, data validation, correction, summarization, standardization, and database updates through an iterative refinement process.

User interface of SciDaSynth. The interfaces features: (A) A query panel for users to input natural language questions or select specific data attributes; (B) A data table displaying extracted information with highlighting of potentially problematic records; (C) Context menu options to validate data by examining relevant document snippets; (D) PDF viewer for accessing original sources; (E) Data standardization panel with multi-level and multi-faceted data summarization and standardization support.

Our paper on SciDaSynth: Interactive Structured Data Extraction From Scientific Literature With LLMs was just published in Campbell Collaboration Reviews. It was led by Xingbo Wang and Samantha L. Huey, PhD with Rui Sheng and was a collaboration between our team at @cpnh.bsky.social and Fei Wang.

Media — Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health | Cornell Human Ecology

Catch up on our activities via our blog - cpnh.cornell.edu/blog; subscribe to our newsletter - lnkd.in/gGqi6bHB; and check out our podcast - Conversations from the #PrecisionNutrition #TestKitchen - cpnh.cornell.edu/media.

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Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health Blog — Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health | Cornell Human Ecology

Stella: "I'm a crossword constructor and powerlifting enthusiast who's currently trying to eat six servings of vegetables a day on the advice of my nutrition coach. The phrase I built this puzzle around is something that really helps with meeting that goal!"

Picture of the crossword puzzle with the first clue.

We are looking forward to the dedication of @cpnh.bsky.social and are excited to announce a partnership with @puzzmo.com to create nutrition and @cornelluniversity.bsky.social themed puzzles! Play at cpnh.cornell.edu/games. This puzzle was made by Stella Zawistowski and edited by the Puzzmo team.

….. and how the literature connecting diet to the health of the #microbiome informs her practice of Lifestyle and Integrative Medicine.
Watch at the link above or listen on your favorite platform: share.transistor.fm/s/f88c70c8

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Hosted by Research Staff and Communications and Advocacy Lead Marian Flaxman, guests prepare nourishing recipes and discuss how food, flavor, and function come together to support better health. On the 1st episode, Dr. Michelle Loy, Faculty Fellow at the Jacobs Center, talks #FoodAsMedicine, …..

Conversations from the Precision Nutrition Kitchen with Dr. Michelle Loy hosted by Marian Flaxman

We are excited to announce the launch of our new podcast, Conversations from the #PrecisionNutrition Kitchen.  We will bring together leading voices in health, wellness, and nutrition for conversations infused with personal experience— all from a teaching kitchen.

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Advances in artificial intelligence and precision nutrition approaches to improve maternal and child health in low resource settings Nature Communications - Novel technologies including AI are becoming widely available and transforming healthcare and precision medicine. In this Perspective, the authors discuss how some of these...

Co-led by @finkelsteinlab.bsky.social with Samantha L. Huey, @shahmdfahim.bsky.social, Srishti Sinha, Kripa Rajagopalan, Tahmeed Ahmad, and Rob Knight.
#OpenAccess: rdcu.be/eBcCD #ArtificialIntelligence #PrecisionNutrition #MaternalandChildHealth
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Advances in artificial intelligence and precision nutrition approaches to improve maternal and child health in low resource settings - Nature Communications Novel technologies including AI are becoming widely available and transforming healthcare and precision medicine. In this Perspective, the authors discuss how some of these technologies and innovation...

In a paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com #NatureCommunications, we discuss how improved computational power & technology may enable precision nutrition-based approaches for program & efficacy evaluation & inform interventions for maternal and child health. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Speakers include:
Holly Nicastro, Ph.D., MPH
Marie Gantz
Diana Thomas
Rob Knight

#NIH
#OfficeofNutritionResearch
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Monday, August 25, 2025
4:45 pm - 6:15 pm
Palais des Congrès of Paris
Grand Amphitheatre
www.icn2025.org. #Nutrition #ICN2025

Join us at the Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health symposia at the 2025 International Congress of Nutrition. In the first, we will focus on #ArtificialIntelligence and #PrecisionNutrition with examples from the #NutritionForPrecisionHealth study, powered by #AllOfUs.

Kudos to Bryan M. Gannon and Samantha L. Huey, PhD for leading this multi-year effort with Neel Mehta, Nidhi Shrestha, Lucero Diana Lopez Perez, Ricardo X. Martinez, Lisa Rogers, PhD RD, and Maria Nieves Garcia-Casal.

#nutrition #diagnostics

Key messages:
• The 2 most common tests (serum retinol + RBP) cannot reliably identify at‐risk individuals with/without vitamin A deficiency in the community/clinics
• Using these tests could lead to over‐ or under-estimated levels of low vitamin A for populations and incorrect individual diagnosis

Selected laboratory‐based biomarkers for assessing vitamin A deficiency in at‐risk individuals - Gannon, BM - 2025 | Cochrane Library Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.

New #DiagnosticTestAccuracy paper for assessing #VitaminA deficiency in at-risk individuals was just published in #Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
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…nutritional guidance during times of scarcity, like the Depression and World War II, and foundational figures like Flemmie Kittrell, a pioneer who sought to eradicate ‘hidden hunger’ across the globe. Julia’s work in maternal and child health is central to our college’s mission of improving lives.”

Dean Dunifon: “This prestigious award is well deserved and well timed, as this year we celebrate 100 years of innovation in nutrition research at the College of Human Ecology. Julia follows in the footsteps of our trailblazing founders, Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose, who provided critical …

Congratulations to @cpnh.bsky.social co-Director, Dr. @finkelsteinlab.bsky.social on receiving the inaugural @nutritionorg.bsky.social Foundation-Novo-Nordisk Foundation's #HenrikDam award for Scientific Discovery in #Nutrition!
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Will this help or hinder human development? Too often we try to predict, based on subtle differences between us and machines; speculating on future trajectories.

We argue this is misguided; we should look at the space of complementarity, and shore up the gaps and inequalities between humans.

I'm excited that I can finally share what I've been working on for the past 9 months:

The United Nations 2025 Human Development Report: "A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of AI" 🧵

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We look forward to your submissions and please reach out with any questions. Topics may include comparisons of conventional approaches with #PrecisionNutrition, application of AI/ML methods to collection of new data/studies, to existing data, considerations for ethics, and graduate training.

Register: bit.ly/3EdIaX1.
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Olivia Kornstein ‘26: “Diet therapy for the management of obesity in children and adolescents”
Mia Marcotte ‘26: “Defining hemoglobin cutoffs to diagnose anemia”
Esha Shakthy ‘25: “Infant formula variations and the gut microbiome”

News from the Program in International Nutrition, Cornell University | Issue #71 We are pleased to share this newsletter with updates and activities in and around the field of international nutrition and global health. Please join us for...

Please join us for the inaugural Lindower-Wolitzer DNS Experiential Learning Symposium on May 1, 2025, 2:00 - 3:00pm ET Cornell Ithaca/Zoom.

Cornell Human Ecology Public Health and Nutrition Ambassadors will share work on projects relevant to real-world practice.

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