PTFI: Unlocking Food Composition to Revolutionize Human and Planetary Health

This side event at the Annual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week features the efforts of the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI), a global participatory effort to create an open-access data resource on comprehensive biochemical profiles of the planet’s edible biodiversity.

Join us as we map out:

• Challenges and opportunities for evaluating food composition
• Basics of food biochemical profiling
• Applications for informing data-driven solutions
• Needs and opportunities for capacity strengthening

Speakers

• Bruce German, Professor of Food Science and Technology, University of California at Davis
  • Topic: Food Vision
• Tracy Shafizadeh, Director of Programs and Partnerships, Verso Biosciences
  • Topic: ‘Foodomics’ 101
• Selena Ahmed, Global Director of the Periodic Table of Food Initiative, American Heart Association
  • Topic: Overview of the Periodic Table of Food Initiative
• Maya Rajasekharan, Director of Strategy Integration and Engagement of the Periodic Table of Food Initiative, Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT
  • Topic: Global Capacity Strengthening

Periodic Table of Food Initiative Funders:

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research

The Rockefeller Foundation

Seerave Foundation

Periodic Table of Food Initiative Secretariat:

American Heart Association

The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Learn More

Find out more about PTFI here.