SOCIETY FOR IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE IN NUTRITION - Key Persons

Gilles Bergeron has worked in international food security and nutrition for more than 25 years. In December 2020, he retired from his academic position as Senior Vice President of the New York Academy of Sciences, and at the same time announced that he would be stepping down from the SISN Board. Our entirely voluntary Board of international implementation experts provide leadership, strategic guidance and collective support to advance the development of implementation science (IS) in nutrition, and as a founding member, Gilles has dedicated over 5 years of service to advancing our mission. "SISN and its Board seeks to have members that come from the nutrition practice world and the nutrition research world. Gilles brought these two worlds together within a single person and was able to move deftly between them in Board discussions. One minute he would persuasively argue a point as a practitioner and the next minute argue the same point as a researcher, in the process helping the entire Board see the best path forward. SISN owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Gilles and he will be sorely missed on the Board." says David Pelletier, SISN Past President. While we hope Gilles will remain actively engaged with SISN for many years to come, we wanted to take this time of transition to acknowledge his contribution, and ask him to share with us his key learnings. Here, Gilles tells us why he sought to be involved with SISN, his greatest accomplishments as a Board Member, and his reflections on the past, present, and future of IS in nutrition.