Government leaders are often faced with tough choices in funding public health programs, including nutrition. Decision-makers need to know how to invest scarce resources to have the greatest impact on undernutrition. Two tools that can help governments optimize resources to reach nutrition targets are Optima Nutrition and Micronutrient Intervention Modelling (MINIMOD). Optima Nutrition determines the economically optimal allocation of a fixed budget across nutrition to minimize stunting, wasting, anemia and mortality in children under five. It includes a mix of education, supplementation, treatment, and nutrition-sensitive interventions. The MINIMOD tool focuses on measuring micronutrient deficiencies at national and subnational levels, and on identifying economically optimal sets of interventions over space and time to address them.  

When used together, these tools can guide decision-makers towards the economically optimal mix of micronutrient interventions and their delivery, to reach the greatest number of people at risk of deficiency. Program planners can target by region to geographically optimize delivery of interventions across multi-year planning time horizons.

Please join us for a webinar to learn more about these tools and how they can work together to help government decision-makers select the best set of interventions in each of their program areas to decrease undernutrition. 


Webinar speakers: Dr. Nick Scott, Econometrician, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia and Dr. Katherine Adams, Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Nutrition, University of California-Davis