Please note: this is a closed event

The Second Expert Panel Meeting for the Chemical Water Quality & Malnourished Child Health project is to discuss provisional chemical water quality guidelines for intensive therapeutic feeding centres where children with severe acute malnutrition receive treatment.

Concerns about chemical water quality in intensive therapeutic feeding centres (ITFCs) have persisted among humanitarian fieldworkers for a decade, yet there are no established guidelines for the chemical makeup of water added to the therapeutic products used to treat children with severe acute malnutrition. The Chemical Water Quality & Malnourished Child Health project seeks to address this gap by establishing the first chemical water quality guidelines for ITFCs in humanitarian response.

The Second Expert Panel Meeting brings together experts from the University of Oxford, The Hospital for Sick Children,  University of Tampere, Médecins Sans Frontières, and McGill University to discuss provisional upper limits of intake for select electrolytes and minerals for SAM children with the aim of establishing provisional water quality guiadance for ITFCs.

Interested persons are encouraged to attend the seminar Bridging Research + Practice: Case Study of Chemical Water Quality and Child Malnutrition in a Humanitarian Setting on October 23rd, in which the project lead will tell the story and science behind the endeavour.