Francesco Branca 博士（世界卫生组织总部营养促进健康与发展司司长） 

       Francesco Branca 博士是世界卫生组织总部营养促进健康与发展司司长。在他任职期间，世卫组织建立了新的营养指南制定流程，并制定了包含六项全球目标的孕产妇和婴幼儿营养综合实施计划。 他一直领导着第二届国际营养大会的筹备工作。他曾是意大利食品和营养研究所的高级科学家，负责领导研究食品和营养素在生命周期不同阶段对人类健康的影响以及公共卫生营养计划的影响。 2003-2007 年，他担任欧洲营养学会联合会主席。Branca 博士毕业于罗马天主教大学的医学和外科专业，专攻糖尿病和代谢疾病，并在阿伯丁大学获得营养学博士学位。

Dr. Francesco Branca, Director of the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development in the World Health Organization

       Dr Francesco Branca is the Director of the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development in the World Health Organization, Geneva. During his tenure, WHO has established a new nutrition guideline development process and has developed a Comprehensive Implementation Plan on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition with six global targets. He has been leading the preparation of the 2nd International Conference on Nutrition. He has been a Senior Scientist at the Italian Food and Nutrition research Institute where he was leading studies on the effects of food and nutrients on human health at the different stages of the life cycle and on the impact of public health nutrition programmes. He has been President of the Federation of the European Nutrition Societies in 2003-2007. Dr. Branca graduated in Medicine and Surgery and specialized in Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases at the Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma and obtained a PhD in Nutrition at Aberdeen University.