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Fifty years of PSND have emboldened Philippine’s Nutritionist-Dietitians (NDs) and the profession to push nutrition security and wellness as end goals of our country’s development programs and key indicators of societal progress. There were challenges – climate change, economic downturns, urbanization of lifestyle, the evolution of culture, and rise in non-communicable diseases, and the recent covid19 pandemic and other emerging diseases – which affect our food, nutrition, and health systems. Yet, there were lessons, innovations, and partnerships that emerged, which guide us on our way forward.

Adapting in the Now Normal and navigating the future calls for NDs and the profession to further be emboldened by the lessons we have learned, innovations that continue to evolve and the partnerships we have created. In this milestone celebration, PSND calls for a spirited Nutrition Now!

The 2022 PSND Convention and 50th Anniversary offerings build around the key themes of resilience, synergy and data-driven decision making. Nutrition Now! embodies resilience from shocks and stressors in our institutions and systems and our collective capability to adapt, data-driven decision making, and synergy of actions – to tackle the hierarchical, complexity, and interdisciplinarity of challenges that threaten our collective vision of food and nutrition secure Filipinos.

We encourage NDs and partners in various capacities—public health and community nutrition, clinical dietetics and medical nutrition, education, science and technology, business and industry, agri-food systems, and policy and governance—to take part in discussions with experts, visionaries and trailblazers in the ND and partner professions as we resolve barriers, manage trade-offs, and collectively and push Nutrition Now!