The Nutritional & Health-related Environmental Studies Section is excited to share its eNewsletter. 

In this issue:

• IAEA designates Princess Máxima Center for Paediatric Oncology as a Collaborating Centre to strengthen childhood cancer care
• Registration opens for new IAEA instructor-led body composition course on the deuterium dilution technique
• IAEA launches preparation for the 2027–2028 Technical Cooperation Programme and invites project ideas
• “Ask the Superuser” virtual event announced on the joint FAO-IAEA protein…

The Editors of Public Health Nutrition (PHN) and Nutrition Research Reviews (NRR) are recruiting new Editorial Board Members.
 

Nutrition Research Reviews

NRR is seeking new Editors. Please the role description here.

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Conference fees

The Finance Committee has recently agreed the Society should use £40,607 of its funds to subsidise the costs to members of attending the 2026 Congress.

The Finance Committee met on 2 December 2025 to complete the work on the draft 2026 budget for the Society. Part of the committee’s responsibilities is to establish the delegate fees for the Society’s Summer Congress, being held in Newcastle University in July 2026. The committee wishes to share the methodology it used to set the fees.

It is important to remember though…

We are very sad to announce the passing of one of our most distinguished Honorary Fellows - Professor Jo Hautvast.

Professor Hautvast studied both medicine and social anthropology at Radboud University in Nijmegen. After training in tropical medicine he worked for a period of three years (1967–70) as medical officer in charge of a 72-bed Igogwe mission hospital in the south-western highlands in Tanzania. There he was confronted with the serious nutritional health problems of the region’s people. When he returned to Radboud Medical School he became interested in nutrition sciences.…

With the introduction of the updated Society’s Supporter Policy in October 2023, the Society’s Trustees committed to an annual review of the Policy taking place each October. The Trustees completed their 2025 review at their recent 14th October meeting. This report outlines the findings of the annual review.