Public Health Advisory on Nutrition

Timeline: August 2017 – September 2017 | Status: Completed

Project Overview

Nutrition is closely connected to population health and requires informed approaches that consider the wider systems and conditions influencing health outcomes.

The Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation (HSDF) undertook a Public Health Advisory on Nutrition engagement funded by the World Bank Group between August and September 2017.

The assignment formed part of HSDF's work in nutrition, bringing the organisation's public health perspective to a World Bank-supported advisory engagement.

While the project repository identifies the engagement as a nutrition-focused public health advisory, it does not provide further details on the specific scope of the assignment, geographic coverage, advisory activities or resulting recommendations. The project is therefore presented at the level supported by the available record.

Nutrition challenges intersect with multiple dimensions of health and development. Addressing them effectively requires decision-makers to understand the public health context in which nutrition programmes and policies operate.

Technical and advisory expertise can support this process by helping institutions consider nutrition priorities within the wider health landscape and strengthening the evidence available to inform decisions.

The Public Health Advisory on Nutrition engagement provided a platform for HSDF to contribute its public health expertise within this context.

HSDF provided advisory support focused on nutrition and public health.

Based on the information documented in the project repository, the engagement can be characterised by:

Providing public health advisory expertise within a nutrition-focused assignment.
Contributing HSDF’s health sector knowledge to the engagement.
Supporting a World Bank Group initiative within the nutrition programme area.

The repository does not document the specific analytical methods, stakeholders engaged, recommendations produced or implementation activities undertaken. These have therefore not been inferred or added to the project narrative.

The engagement forms part of HSDF’s wider portfolio of work addressing nutrition as an important component of stronger health systems and improved population health.

It also represents an earlier part of the organisation’s nutrition portfolio, preceding subsequent HSDF engagements in areas including nutrition investment optimisation, knowledge management and learning, and nutrition financing capacity development.

Through work across these areas, HSDF’s nutrition portfolio has evolved to encompass different dimensions of the systems and evidence required to support stronger nutrition outcomes.