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Purpose, Goals, and Functions
Associated
Institutions
The
Advisory Committee
Purpose To organize and implement a programme of research, training, and dissemination of knowledge, directed to the alleviation of the problems of world hunger and malnutrition.
Goal :
To help alleviate pressing global nutrition problems through instruments of scholarship. ii. To contribute to the continuing growth of vigorous academic and scientific communities concerned with food and nutrition, particularly in the developing countries. iii. To increase dynamic interaction in the world-wide community of learning and research and awareness of, and interest in, the problems of nutrition.
Functions i. Identifying pressing global nutrition problems that are subject to alleviation through research, advanced training and dissemination of knowledge and are not being adequately recognized or sufficiently dealt with by existing national and international institutions. ii. Filling major gaps in knowledge and expertise concerning these problems through (a) promoting and organizing sustained, internationally co-ordinated networks of mission-oriented, multidisciplinary research and advanced training programmes; (b) strengthening individual and institutional capabilities, especially in developing countries; and (c) encouraging innovative approaches to the examination of these problems. iii. Disseminating to the United Nations and its agencies, to scholars, policy-makers, and to the public, knowledge and new perspectives concerning these problems resulting from UNU activities and from other sources, thereby facilitating the development of relevant approaches and solutions.
Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama
(INCAP)
Address: Carretera Roosevelt Zona 11
Guatemala, Central America
Telephone: 43762
Cable: INCAP GUATEMALA
Co-ordinator: Dr. Guillermo Arroyave
The Nutrition Center of the Philippines (NCP)
Address: Nutrition Center of the Philippines Bldg.
South Super Highway, Nichols Interchange
Makati, Metro Manila 3116, Philippines
Telephone: 85-30-71 to 79
Cable: NUTRICEN MANILA
Co-ordinator: Dr. Rodolfo Florentino
Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI)
Address: Mysore 570013, India
Telephone: 20200
Cable: FOODSEARCH MYSORE, or
UNVERCENT MYSORE
Telex: 0846-241 FTRI IN
Co-ordinator: Dr. C.P. Natarajan
Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA)
Address: University of Chile
Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile
Co-ordinator: Dr. Ricardo Uauy
Tropical Products Institute (TPI)
Address: 56-62 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8LU, England
Telephone: 01-242-5412
Cable: TROPRODS LONDON W.C.1
Co-ordinator: Dr. E.M. Thain
Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC)
Address: Apartado 1827, Caracas, Venezuela Telephone: 69 19 41
Cable: IVICSAS
Co-ordinator: Dr. Miguel Layrisse
The International Food and Nutrition Policy and Planning Program (IFNP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard School of Public Health
Address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
20A-201, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139,
USA
Telephone: (617) 253-7617
Cable: MITUNATUNIV CAMBRIDGE
Telex: 92- 1473 MITUNATUNIV
Co-ordinator: Dr. Barbara Underwood
Centre for Research in Nutrition, Laval University (CRN)
Address: Quebec G1 K 7P4, Canada
Telephone: (418) 656-2439
Cable: AGRAL-2BC-UL CANADA
Telex: 0513099
Co-ordinator: Dr. J.C. Dillon
University of Ghana (UGL)
Address: Legon, Accra, Ghana
Telephone: 75381
Cable: UNIVERSITY LEGON
Dr. Moisés Béhar, Chief, Nutrition Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Sol H. Chafkin, Division of National Affairs and Social Development, Ford Foundation, New York, New York, USA
Dr. Freda U. Chale, Programme Officer, United Nations Children's Fund Office for Tanzania, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Dr. Wenche Barth Eide, Institute for Nutrition Research, School of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Dr. Yujiro Hayami, Professor, Faculty of Economics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Mogens Jul. Danish Meat Products Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark
Past Members of the Advisory Committee
Dr. Marie-Therese Basse, Director, Institute of Food Technology, Dakar, Republic of Senegal
Dr. George H. Beaton, Professor and Chairman, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Stanislaw Berger, Professor and Director, Institute of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Food Technology, Warsaw Agricultural University, Warsaw, Poland
Dr. R. Alexander Buchanan, Australian Liaison Officer, ASEAN Sub-committee on Protein, Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr. Jose E. Dutra de Oliveira, Professor of Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, "Ribeirao Preto,"
Dr. Paul Lunven, Chief, Food and Nutrition Assessment Service, Food Policy and Nutrition Division, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Dr. H.A.B. Parpia, Senior Adviser, United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development, AGDR, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Dr. D. Picou, Eastern Caribbean Medical Scheme, University of the West Indies General Hospital, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, West Indies
Dr. Roger Whitehead, University of Cambridge and Medical Research Council, Dunn Nutritional Laboratory, Cambridge, England
Professor Tasho A. Tashev, Institute of Nutrition, Sofia, Bulgaria
Sao Paulo University, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil
Dr. Mamdouh Gabr, Professor of Pediatrics, Mounira Children's Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Dr. Darwin Karyadi, Director, Nutrition Research and Development Centre, Jalan Semboja, Bogor, Indonesia
Dr. Ade Omololu, Professor of Nutrition, Director, Food Science and Applied Nutrition Unit, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Dr. Frank C. Ramsey, Director, National Nutrition Center, Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies
Dr. Tokuji Watanabe, Director, National Food Research Institute, Tokyo Japan
Composition of Task Forces
WHP Task Force on Food and Nutrition Policy and Programme Planning:
Dr. Fred Sai Dr. Sol Chafkin Dr. Paul Lunven (Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw)
WHP Task Force on Post-Harvest Conservation of Food:
Dr. Mogens Jul
Dr. C.P. Natarajan
Dr. Ricardo Bressani
(Dr. Maria A. Tagle)
WHP Task Force on Human Nutritional Needs and Their Fulfilment through Local Diets:
Dr. Guillermo Arroyave
Dr. Roger Whitehead
Dr. Barbara Underwood
(Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw)
NRP-WHP Task Force on Bioconversion of Organic Residues for Rural Communities:
Dr. P. van der Wal, Chairman
Dr. C. A. Shacklady, Co-ordinator
Dr. C.G. Hedén
Dr. C.V. Seshadri
Dr. W.H. Barreveld* (FAO)
Dr. E. da Silva* (UNESCO)
Dr. N.S. Scrimshaw (UNU)
Dr. A.C.J. Burgers (UNU)
* In their personal capacity.