Artificial Intelligence in Nutrition Practice: Current and Future Applications and Implications

This webinar was presented live on September 10, 2024. The CPE will expire on August 10, 2027.

AI has the potential to optimize our lives, driven by the combination of increased data access, computational power, and improved sensors and algorithms. This session will take participants into a journey of AI in practice. Participants will learn how to identify global and local nutrition challenges where AI techniques are applicable while navigating complexities in the face of rising hunger, climate change, economic downturn, polycrisis, migration, workforce shortages, and burnout. The session will present experiential models critical for career growth and will address how AI can be used to find solutions for good and generate self-directed development.

CPE Level: 2
CPEU: 1.0 (valid until August 10, 2027)

Performance Indicators:

• 3.3.4 Identifies opportunities for mutually beneficial partnerships with individuals or organizations with shared visions.
• 5.2.5 Analyzes and synthesizes information and identifies new information, patterns and findings.
• 6.1.10 Uses health informatic tools to support client access to nutrition and dietetics services and education.

Learning Objectives

• Identify global and local nutrition challenges where AI techniques are applicable.
• Apply basic AI techniques and learn how to participate in the design of AI systems that are developed and deployed in ethical, equitable and socially responsible way.
• Discuss opportunities of using AI in diverse contexts and practice settings and identify strategies for scaling up AI solutions in a sustainable and equitable manner.

Speaker

Tatyana Y. El-Kour, PhD, MA, MS, RDN, FAND

Dr. El-Kour is the Global Nutrition Advisor at Aga Khan Foundation. A champion of systems' thinking. Highly skilled at innovating frameworks to transform processes and leverage technology to maximize effectiveness and outcomes. For over 25 years, Dr. El-Kour has delivered progressive strategies integrating and aligning complex programs and projects on behalf of the United Nations, governmental and non-governmental agencies. Dr. El-Kour's technical specialty has evolved to address the changing healthcare and food systems landscape, incorporating media psychology and technology to population health and humanitarian programming to effect regulatory and policy changes and drive population behavior change.