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Program in International and Community Nutrition |
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Program in International and Community Nutrition |
Spring 2001 Seminar Topics
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
| 3/28 | Implementing a Food-Based Approach to Reduce Vitamin A and Iron Deficiency in Nepal | Sheila Specio
Graduate Intern |
| 4/4 | No seminar -- Experimental Biology Meetings | |
| 4/11 | Iron-deficiency anemia: reexamining the nature and magnitude of the public health problem | Lindsay
Allen
PIN Faculty |
| 4/18 | An Evidence-Based Analysis of Iron Supplementation During Pregnancy. How Much? How Often? | Janet
King
PIN Faculty |
| 4/25 | Participatory Approach for the Development of Food-Based Strategies Against Food Insecurity in Isolated Rural Communities in Latin America | Ana Zubieta
Hugo Melgar PIN Postdoctoral Fellows |
| 5/2 | Zinc-Vitamin A Interactions | Bo
Lonnerdal
PIN Faculty Shannon Kelleher Researcher |
| 5/9 | Evaluation of Solar-Dried Mango to Improve Vitamin A Status in Young Gambian Children | Charles
Stephensen
PIN Faculty |
| 5/16 | Oxidative Stress in Malnutrition | Kazi Jamil
PIN Visiting Fogarty Postdoctoral Fellow International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh |
| 5/23 | The Current Nutrition Situation in Mexico: Research to Facilitate Decision Making | Juan Rivera
PIN Visiting Fogarty Postdoctoral Fellow Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Cuernavaca, Mexico |
| 5/30 | Establishing Food-Based Dietary Guidelines in Developing Countries | Barbara
Schneeman
Professor Dept. of Nutrition |
| 6/7 | Effect of Animal Products on Nutritional Status of Kenyan Children in a Malaria-Endemic Community | Jonathan Siekmann
PIN Student |
Winter 2001 Seminar Topics
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
| 1/10 | Options to achieve adequate intakes from home-available complementary foods | Kenneth
H.
Brown
PIN Faculty |
| 1/17 | Agriculture in the 21st century: challenges for global food security | Alex
McCalla
Professor Emeritus Dept. of Ag and Resource Economics |
| 1/24 | The Market Access for Rural Development Project: Least-Cost Diets for Rural Nepal | Kat Jones
PIN Student |
| 1/31 | Journal review: Uauy R, et. al. Fat intake during childhood: metabolic responses and effects on growth. AmJClinNutr 2000; 72(suppl): 1354S-60S. | Shaikh Meshbahuddin Ahmad
PIN Student |
| 2/7 | Evaluation of a nutrition education program | James
Chalfant
Professor Dept. of Ag and Resource Economics |
| 2/14 | Agricultural R&D, technological change, and food security | Julian
Alston
Professor Dept. of Ag and Resource Economics |
| 2/21 | Two poverty assessment methods used within the context of a micro credit and nutrition education program | Barbara MkNelly
Technical Advisor for Research and Evaluation Freedom from Hunger |
| 2/28 | Use of linear programming techniques in developing dietary recommendations | Janet Peerson
PIN Statistician |
| 3/7 | National food security, trade, and agricultural commodity policy | Daniel
Sumner
Professor Dept. of Ag and Resource Economics |
| 3/14 | A study of the prevalence of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) in Ghana | Ebenezer Asibey-Berko
Associate Professor Dept. of Nutrition and Food Science University of Ghana, Accra |
Fall 2000 Seminar Topics
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
| 10/4 | Introductory Seminar -- Overview of faculty research interests | PIN Faculty |
| 10/11 | Overview of faculty research interests (continued) | PIN Faculty |
| 10/18 | Zinc absorption by Malawian children from high-phytate and reduced-phytate diets | Christine Hotz
Executive Officer IZiNCG |
| 10/25 | Effects of exclusive breastfeeding for 4 versus 6 months on maternal nutritional status and infant motor development: results of two randomized trials in Honduras | Kathryn
Dewey
PIN Faculty |
| 11/1 | Developmental risk associated with micronutrient supplementation among infants and toddlers | Ernesto Pollitt
PIN Faculty |
| 11/8 | Zinc and motor activity | Deanna Olney
PIN Student |
| 11/15 | Breastfeeding and HIV transmission | Peggy Papathakis,
PIN Student |
| 11/22 | Assessment of nutritional status of adolescents in developing countries | Sara Wuehler
PIN Student |
| 11/29 | Serum retinol, the acute phase response, and the apparent misclassification of vitamin A status in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey | Charles
Stephensen
PIN Faculty |
| 12/6 | Zinc supplementation and morbidity status | Fouad I. Hassaan
PIN Student |
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