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Program in International and Community Nutrition |
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Program in International and Community Nutrition |
Spring 1997 Seminar Topics
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| 4/2 | Potential Risks of Zinc Supplementation Trials
(held in Weir Room, Second Floor, Meyer Hall) |
Prof. Carl
L. Keen
Chairman Dept. of Nutrition |
| 4/9 | No seminar due to Experimental Biology Conference | |
| 4/16 | Fortification Studies in Thailand | Stanley Gershoff, Ph.D. |
| 4/23 | Effect of animal products on the nutritional status and development of infants and children. Design of Small Ruminant CRSP efficacy study. | Kenneth Brown, M.D.
Marjorie Haskell, Ph.D. |
| 4/30 | Vitamin A - Iron Interactions | Jonathan Siekmann
PIN Student |
| 5/7 | Use of Beta-Carotene to Prevent Vitamin A Deficiency -- ioavailability Issues | Le Vuong
PIN Student |
| 5/14 | The Puzzle of Cultivar Diversity | Steven Brush, Ph.D.
Human and Community Development |
| 5/21 | Pizzas and Careers | PIN Faculty |
| 5/28 | Economic determinants of household animal production and consumption in Peru | Tu
Jarvis, Ph.D.
Agricultural Economics/IAD |
| 6/4 | Analysis of livestock production in the Andes (the SRCRSP) | Roberto
Sainz,
Ph.D.
Animal Science |
Winter 1997 Seminar Topics
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| 1/8 | Discussion of article:
"Risk factors for wasting and stunting among children in Metro Cebu, Philippines," by Ricci et al., Am J Clin Nutr 63:966-75, 1996 |
Jennifer Casterline
PIN Student |
| 1/15 | Discussion of article:
"The costs and effectiveness of three vitamin A interventions in Guatemala," by Phillips et al., Soc. Sci. Med. 42:1661-1668, 1996. |
Beth Tohill
PIN Student |
| 1/22 | Famines: a social or biological phenomenon? | Molly Mugnolo
PIN student |
| 1/29 | Relationship of iron status of postpartum women to cognitive function and maternal-infant interaction | Gina Ermis
PIN student |
| 2/5 | Proposed mechanisms by which maternal malnutrition may or may not alter significantly the protein composition of human milk | Ana Zubieta
PIN student |
| 2/12 | Discussion of article
"Effect of early, short-term supplementation on weight and linear growth of 4-7-mo-old infants in developing countries: a four country randomized trial," by Simondon et al., Am J Clin Nutr 1996;64:537-45. |
Stuart Bresnick
PIN student |
| 2/19 | Discussion of article
"Abdominal circumference contributes to absence of wasting in Brazilian children," by César et al., J Nutr 1996;126:2752-2756. |
Jonathan Siekmann PIN student |
| 2/26 | Effect of feeding improved complementary foods on nutritional status of Ghanaian infants 6-12 months | Anna Lartey
PIN Student |
| 3/5 | Assessment of the importance of animal products for the nutrition of young children in the Andean region (Small Ruminant CRSP project) | Kenneth Brown
PIN Faculty |
| 3/12 | Folic acid deficiencies in developing countries | Lisa Rogers
PIN Student |
Fall 1996 Seminar Topics
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| 10/9 | Introductory Seminar | Kenneth Brown & PIN Faculty |
| 10/16 | Weekly Iron Supplementation for the Safe and Efficient Control of Iron Deficiency. It Works!! | Fernando Viteri
Professor of Nutrition |
| 10/18 | Nutritional Issues in a Country in Transition: Chile | Ricardo Uauy, Director
Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, Santiago, Chile |
| 10/23 | Should USAID Increase the Vitamin C Content of Commodity Food Blends for Foreign Aid? | Kenneth Brown
PIN Faculty |
| 10/30 | Washington Month in Review: the CIN and INACG against the supplement industry? | Lindsay Allen
PIN Faculty |
| 11/6 | Child Survival from Antiquity to the Modern Age: Issues in IUGR | Louis Grivetti
PIN Faculty |
| 11/13 | Dietary and Other Factors Affecting Children's Appetite | Natalia Leon
PIN Student |
| 11/22 | Nutritional Anthropology | Gretel Pelto
World Health Organization |
| 11/27 | Factors Affecting the Microbiologic Quality of Children's Foods in Ghana | Joel Kimmons
PIN Student |
| 12/4 | Adaptation to Marginal Protein Intakes in Older Women | Marilyn Crim
Assistant Professor Tufts University |
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