|
|
|
|
|
The Centre for Health Innovation and Partnership (CHIP)through its Global Health Program works on projects within the Asia-Pacific region to build and support partnerships of public, private and civic entities to implement low-cost, high impact ways to improve the food quality and dramatically improve health, educational achievement, productivity and national wealth, and to reduce the burden of non-communicable disease and disability.
This is achieved by:
- national scale enrichment, with iron, folic acid and other nutrients of wheat flour produced or imported into countries in Asia and the Pacific.
- vitamin and mineral enrichment of salt (with iodine), rice (with iron, zinc and B vitamins) and cooking oils (with vitamin A) in 22 Pacific Island Countries (PICs)
- Work with Pacific Island country food regulators to dialogue with the food industry on ways to reduce salt, harmful fats and calories in foods produced and imported in the Pacific.
CHIP works to develop and use public-private partnerships wo change the food supply to address the millennium development goals by reducing vitamin and miner deficiencies of iron, iodine, vitamin A, folic acid and zinc which all contribute to the high burden of disease and disability in China, Vietnam, Sri Lank, Thailand, Indonesia, the Phillipines and th 22 Pacific Island countries.
CHIP and the Global Health Institute (GHI), Sydney West Area Health Service, which is a unit of NSW Health coordinates these projects in collaboration with UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), East Asia and the Pacific Regional Office and the World Health Organisdation (WHO) Regional Office for the Western Pacific. The wheat flour fortification component of the project is coordinated through the Flour Fortification Initiative.
|
|
|