Pillar 1

Integration of Education, Research
and Public Policy

Over the past 30 years, CREN and its research partners have been conducting studies where the nutritional health of children and adolescents is the central theme of academic work. Most of the scientific output of the dozens of partner universities and educational and research institutions is produced by departments of Escola Paulista de Medicina/Unifesp, where CREN’s history began.

In this pillar, CREN, as an organized civil society, also engages in spaces of social participation in the development and social control of public policies, such as the Nutrition and Poverty Research Group at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo, Regional Food and Nutrition Security Committees, and more.