Cost Analysis is Essential before Considering Scaling-Up Micronutrient Interventions

This plenary highlights the need for a priori cost analysis, alongside efficacy or pilot trials, to determine micronutrient program viability. In addition, it will present results from economic analysis of different micronutrient-delivering interventions. The session will also discuss the issues and challenges with how policymakers should take in consideration for the selection and implementation of potential effective and sustainable micronutrient interventions.

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST

  The Brave New World of Cost Analysis for Nutrition
  Stephen A. Vosti, PhD – Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
• 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST

  Identifying, combining, and managing more cost-effective micronutrient intervention programs: Cases of Uganda and Cameroon
  Stephen A. Vosti, PhD – Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
• 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST

  If food fortification is a highly cost-effective intervention, why IS implementing it so expensive?
  Omar Dary, PhD – USAID
• 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST

  Cost-benefit of traditional agriculture for increasing micronutrient supply and biofortification
  Keith Lividini, MS/MPH – HarvestPlus/IFPRI and Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
• 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST

  Reflections: The dilemma faced by policy makers when choosing efficacious interventions and the importance of costing information in decision-making
  J.V. Meenakshi – Delhi School of Economics
• 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST

  Panel discussion: Cost Analysis is Essential before Considering Scaling-Up Micronutrient Interventions
  Heather Danton, MA – JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.; Jack Clift – Results for Development; Ziauddin Hyder – World Bank Group; J.V. Meenakshi – Delhi School of Economics; Carol Levin, MS, PhD – Department of Global Health|University of Washington