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Erik: What has led you to create a global program on nutrition science?
Stacie: I am currently the vice president and scientific director at the New York Academy
of Sciences. This is an organization that's been around for almost 200 years in the United
States. And for those 200 years, what it has really excelled in, is building communities
of scientists in discreet areas and then driving those communities towards innovation. One
area that was becoming increasingly important to address, but which we weren't really doing,
was nutrition science. So, we set out about 18 months ago to scope out a project in nutrition
science. That scoping project led us to interview 48 stakeholders around the world to really
design an initiative that would be unique, that wouldn't duplicate existing efforts,
that would align with them, and that would have global impact.