US leadership and support for global recovery efforts from the COVID-19 pandemic is increasingly more urgent in light of a looming malnutrition crisis that threatens the futures of an entire generation of children. Modelling done by the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium (ST4N) - a collective group of nutrition, economic, food, and health system experts - shows that, by 2022, there will be an estimated additional 13.6 million wasted (severely malnourished) children, additional 3.6 million stunted children, and 283,000 additional deaths of children, with the most severe consequences for young children and their mothers.

Join Standing Together for Nutrition, Bread for the World, 1,000 Days, and Micronutrient Forum for a virtual briefing to learn more about the projected deterioration of maternal and child nutrition resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, and opportunities to integrate nutrition into global COVID response and recovery plans.

Speakers:
- Rep. Young Kim
- Rep. Chrissy Houlahan
- Dr. Rebecca Heidkamp, Johns Hopkins University & ST4N Consortium
- Abdoulaye Ka, Government of Senegal
- Shawn Baker, USAID
- Jordan Teague, Bread for the World
- Blythe Thomas, 1,000 Days

HILL BRIEFING ON THE COVID-19 NUTRITION CRISIS