 Hello everyone, I am Dr. Rupal Dalal, I am an Action Associate Professor at IIT Bombay. By profession I am a pediatrician, I am trained in Chicago and I have worked in the US for many years and I have been working in India for the past 14 years and my experience has been in prevention and treatment of malnutrition. When I came back to India I realized that a lot of our children were basically malnutritionists and they were getting very sick with diarrhea and pneumonia and it was very important for me to improve their malnutrition status because we don't have that held infrastructure which developed the world has to save the children if they are sick in rural areas and tribal areas so it was very important for me to kind of work on solutions to bring this children out of malnutrition, not only to bring them out of malnutrition but also to prevent malnutrition and what I realized in the past 14-15 years that this malnutrition is just not prevalent in just rural and tribal areas for children but it is very much pervasive throughout all the wealth quintiles so even I do take care of a lot of children who come from a very privileged background and even they are stunted, they are wasted, they are underweight. So the issue what I found is there is a lot of lack of knowledge on maternal nutrition, on infant nutrition, on lactation and on complementary feeding so whatever that I am going to train in this course is basically coming from my field experiences not only experiences but we have also presented our data in world breastfeeding conferences and other conferences and we have shown that just by understanding and practicing the skills so this is all very much skill based understanding that I will be giving not much theory it is more about the skill what food to eat during pregnancy, why to eat, what kind of technique to use for breastfeeding, cross cradle hold, you know latching, there are 45 points that I will be discussing in the workshop and there are some issues that breastfeeding mothers may face so I will be talking about that also and of course complementary feeding is extremely important so I will be talking about what food to start, how much to start, this again coming from experiences and you know evidence based results that we have presented in some of the conferences I will be also talking about maternal nutrition and lactation nutrition because that one area that I feel that we can do better because our babies are born small and I have seen that even educated mothers have babies who are born just 2 kg or 2.5 kg so I will be talking about that and last I will be discussing about the growth chart now in India and all over the world we use WHO growth chart and you know unfortunately in India not many doctors they follow this WHO, they do follow but they do not plot you know and it is the same issue in healthcare workers also so I will be discussing about WHO growth chart what are the target weight what do you expect you know when the child grows beautifully how to what exactly to do what skills to use so that our children become tall and you know they by 2 years of age we want to have very good height because obviously you know we know that stunting if the child is stunted they have poor IQ so I will be talking about all that you know fundamentals of maternal infant child nutrition so I really welcome you to join my course and if you have any question as we have a little by email or by phone and my TAs will be very very helpful they have been working with me for past six years I will be also introducing health spoken to tall that we have created at ID Bombay and how to use them you can also use them to train others you know once you get certification so I definitely recommend you to get certification you know take exams are very simple exams but it will kind of prepare you to train others okay so thank you so much and welcome