Building Public-Private Partnerships in Food and Nutrition Workshop Summary (2012) / Chapter Skim
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The Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Food Forum held a workshop on November 1-2, 2011, in Washington, DC, to better understand how to build multisectoral food and nutrition partnerships that achieve meaningful public health results.4 1 This chapter is based partly on information presented by Cheryl Toner, Sylvia Rowe, and Eric Hentges.
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Through extensive discussion of the risks and benefits of public–private collaboration and the identification of best practices and models for constructive partnering, including how to manage some of the key ethical challenges of public–private interaction, many workshop participants identified not only common ground for moving forward but also direction for action. The workshop built upon and complemented several other recent workshops.
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The key outcomes of the meeting were suggestions for capitalizing on the momentum from the discussion and pursuing next steps toward collaboration and future coalition development. Meeting participants identified areas for potential collaboration, such as the use of calories as a common agenda that may allow for multiple partners in multiple sectors to employ a variety of complementary actions consistent with each partner's individual goals, and discussed needs, such as openly addressing the role of friction in the debate, building mutual trust, and defining achievable goals.
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Diane Finegood, professor at Simon Fraser University, and David Castle, professor and chair of Innovation in the Life Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, facilitated the large-group discussions among all workshop participants following the breakout sessions. Additionally, some of the discussion was based on results of a pre-workshop survey designed to gather information about deeply held beliefs and expectations for public–private partnerships in food and nutrition (Box 1-1)
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Specifically, participants were asked to organize themselves by groups, with industry, government, academia, and public-interest NGO representatives meeting at separate tables.6 Business-interest NGO representatives were invited to join any table.7 There were a total of two industry tables, two government tables, one academic table, and one public-interest NGO table. The groups were asked to reflect on and discuss goals for building cross 6 Public-interest NGOs include consumer and public health advocacy organizations.
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For food labeling and calorie reduction, participants were asked to consider the goals and metrics of acceptability for cross-sector partnering. For obesity, participants were asked to discuss the unique challenges of obesity compared to other public health challenges and to identify goals for partnering based on their discussion.
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Throughout the workshop, individual participants across sectors identified possible risks of cross-sector engagement, including competitive advantages or disadvantages for one partner, actual or potential conflicts of interest that can undermine public trust, a product or activity of one partner casting a "shadow" or undermining the value of the partnership, unequal levels of commitment or ineffective partners, the lack of control over results that are generated through the partnership, the lack of a clear return on investment when investing in research to generate knowledge, and a negative impact on individual or institutional integrity. A variety of possible risk mitigation strategies were consequently suggested by several workshop participants, including establishing clear rules of engagement, ensuring broad participation that includes the public-interest NGO sector, balancing public and private interests, checking brand complementarity, maintaining financial transparency and legal accountability, creating an option to opt out, and conducting ongoing monitoring and evaluation of partnership outcomes.
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The reader should be aware that the materials presented here express the views and opinions of individuals participating in the workshop either as presenters, panelists, or breakout group discussants, and not the deliberations or conclusions of the workshop participants as a whole, the breakout groups, or a formally constituted IOM committee. The objective of the workshop was not to address comprehensively all issues of relevance to building public–private partnerships in food and nutrition.
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