School Age Nutrition: Principles, Practices and Soybean Nutrition

This course is designed to enhance your knowledge of nutrition and school feeding programs among school-aged children.

This course aims to enhance your knowledge about nutrition and school feeding programs among school-aged children. Even though the first 1,000 days of life, from conception to age two, is a critical window for brain and physical development, children’s brains and bodies continue to develop until approximately 22 years of age. Proper nutrition is a critical element throughout these two decades of life.
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The Soybean Innovation Lab, or SIL, is committed to improving lives and livelihoods. We believe food should be Delicious, Inexpensive, Nutritious, Environmentally and Culturally Friendly, and, of course, Safe. The acronym for this spells out DINES. For the SIL nutrition team, this means supporting healthy, nutritious options, including soybean protein and oil, to enhance and diversify diets.

Course Lessons

This course was developed by:

Ms. Annette Donnelly
Annette M. Donnelly is a visiting research specialist for managed research area five, focused on human nutrition, at the Soybean Innovation Lab at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. She holds a BSBA in Management from Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan and an MBA from Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California. Annette has worked in both private industry and the NGO sector across the globe. She has worked with vulnerable populations in Sub Saharan Africa and across conflict and post-conflict countries to help people find sustainable pathways out of poverty. She is the co-founder of Walking with Angels, a charitable organization serving volunteer leaders in vulnerable communities. 
Dr. Juan Andrade
Juan E. Andrade is an associate professor of global food and nutrition at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville. He holds a B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences from Zamorano University, Honduras, and a Ph.D. in Human Nutrition from Purdue University. Dr. Andrade's long-term goal is to develop sustainable strategies that can be used to deliver adequate nutrition, especially micronutrients, to residents of low-resource countries and thereby help to promote human health and economic development.  Dr. Andrade is a research affiliate at the USAID’s Livestock Innovation Lab and the PI of the Human Nutrition Team at the USAID’s Soybean Innovation Lab. 
Dr. Jeanette Andrade
Jeanette M. Andrade is an assistant professor of nutritional sciences and master’s in dietetic internship director at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville. She holds a B.Sc. in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, a MS in Dietetics from Eastern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. in Human Resource Education at University of Florida. Dr. Andrade's long-term goal is to minimize the rapid progression of chronic kidney disease in patients through dietary modifications. Her research interests are focused on reducing inflammation and improving nutritional status of those with kidney disease through modifications of foods and nutrients and nutrition education among both health professionals and patients.  
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