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UNU programme on food and
nutrition for human and social development
Programme Coordinating Office
Harvard Center for Population Studies
9 Bow St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Telephone: (617) 495-0417. Fax: (617) 495-5418
Telex: 92 1496. E-Mail: UNUCPO@HARVARDA.BITNET
Programme Director: Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw
Associate Programme Director: Dr. Guillermo Herrera
Programme Assistant: Ms. Edwina B. Murray
Secretary: Mr. Carl Belfatti
At the UNU Centre, Tokyo:
Training and Fellowship Officer: Dr. Abraham Besrat
Associated institutions
- CENTRAL FOOD TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CFTRI).
Mysore 570013, India. Tel. 22298. Cable: UNVERCENT
MYSORE. Telex: 0846241 FTRI IN Coordinator: Dr. D.
Rajagopal Rao
- DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION AND FOOD SCIENCE. UNIVERSITY OF
GHANA (DNFS). P.O. Box 134, Legon, Ghana. Cable:
UNIVERSITY LEGON. Coordinator: Dr. R. Orraca-Tetteh
- INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY
(IATA). Jaime Roig 11, Valencia 10. Spain. Tel.
369-08-00. Cable: IAIA Valencia 10 Spain. Coordinator:
Dr. Salvador Barber
- INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION. MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY (INMU). Salaya
Campus, c/o Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine,
Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama VI Road. Bangkok 4, Thailand.
Tel. 282-6435. Coordinator: Dr. Aree Valyasevi
- INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY (INTA).
University of Chile, Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile.
Tel. 214105, 214030. Cable: INTA CHILE Coordinator: Dr.
Sergio Valiente
- INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION OF CENTRAL AMERICA AND PANAMA
(INCAP). Carretera Roosevelt, Zona 11. Guatemala City,
Guatemala. Tel. 43762. Cable: INCAP Guatemala.
Coordinator: Dr. Hernán Delgado
- KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(KAIST). P.O. Box 131, Cheongryang, Seoul, Republic of
Korea. Tel. (967) 8801. Cable: KISTROK. Telex: KISTROK
k27380. Coordinator: Dr. Tai-Wan Kwon
- LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE (LSHTM).
Keppel Street (Gower Street), London WC1E 7HT, UK. Tel.
01-636 8636. Coordinator: Dr. Philip Payne
- NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NFRI) 2-1-2 Kannon-dai.
Yatabe-machi, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki-ken 300-21, Japan.
Tel. 02875-6-8011. Coordinator: Dr. Keiji Umeda
- NETHERLANDS INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION INSTITUTE (NINI).
Lawickse Allee 11, P.O. Box 88, 6700 AB, Wageningen,
Netherlands. Tel. (08370) 19040. Coordinator: Dr. Joseph
Hautvast
- NUTRITION CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINES (NCP). Nutrition
Center of the Philippines Bldg., South Super Highway,
Nichols Interchange, Makati, Metro Manila 3116,
Philippines. Tel. 85-30-71 to-79. Cable: NUTRICEN MANILA
Coordinator: Dr. Mercedes de Solon.
- UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI (UNK). Department of Food
Technology and Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Kabete
Campus, P.O. Box 41670, Nairobi, Kenya. Coordinator: Dr.
A. A. Kielmann
- UNIVERSITY OF SAO PAULO (USP). School of Public Health,
Avenida Dr. Arnaldo,715, Sao Paulo, S.P., Brazil.
Coordinator: Dr. Ruy Laurenti
- UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES (UWI). St. Augustine
Campus: Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Crop
Science, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Tel. 662-7171. Cable:
STOMATA PORT OF SPAIN. Resident Coordinator: Dr. Lloyd
Rankine. MonaCampus: Tropical Metabolism Research Unit.
Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Tel.. 927-6661. Cable: UNIVERS
JAMAICA. Contact: Dr. Michael Golden
Other cooperating organizations
Through the British Council:
- Agricultural Research Council, Food Research institute,
Norwich, UK
- Department of Food Science, University of Reading,
Reading, UK (Dr. Harry Nursten)
- Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex,
Brighton, UK
Through CFTRI:
- National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Indian Council of
Medical Research, Hyderabad, India (Dr. M. Mohanram)
Through IATA:
- Instituto de Nutrición, Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicos de España, Madrid, Spain
(Dr. Gregorio Varela)
Through Cambridge Programme office:
- Department of Anthropology, Nutrition, and Agriculture,
University of Kentucky, Lexington. Ky.. USA (Dr. Billie
R. DeWalt)
- Department of Food Science and Nutrition. University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., USA (Dr. Peter Pellet)
- Departments of Nutrition and Medical Anthropology,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn., USA (Dr. Gretel
Pelto)
- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University,
Ithaca, N.Y., USA (Dr. C. Garza)
- School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md., USA (Dr. Benjamin Caballero)
- School of Public Health, University of California, Los
Angeles, Calif., USA (Dr. Snehendu B. Kar)
- Tufts University School of Nutrition, Medford, Mass., USA
(Dr. Stanley N. Gershoff)
- USDA Human Nutrition Center on Aging, Boston, Mass., USA
(Dr. Irwin Rosenberg)
Through INCAP:
- Central American Institute of Corporation Management
(INCAE), Costa Rica (Dr. John C. Ickis)
- Instituto Centroamericano de Investigación y Tecnologia
Industrial (ICAITI), Guatemala City, Guatemala (Dr.
Carlos Rolz)
Through KAIST:
- Food Research Center, College of Agriculture, Korea
University, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Dr. Cherl-Ho Lee)
- Korea Nutrition Research Institute, Korea University,
Seoul, Republic of Korea (Dr. Jin Soon Ju)
Through NCP:
- Food and Nutrition Research Institute, Manila,
Philippines (Dr. Rodolfo Florentino)
- University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Los Baños,
Philippines (Dr. Cora Barbera)
Through NFRI:
- Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
Through NINI:
- Department of Human Nutrition, Agricultural University,
Wageningen, Netherlands (Dr. P. Middelburg)
- Department of Tropical Nutrition, Royal Tropical
Institute. Amsterdam, Netherlands (Prof. J. Kusin)
- Division for Nutrition and Food Research, TNO, Zeist.
Netherlands (Prof. B. Krol)
- Food Research Institute, Norwich, UK (Dr. David
Southgate)
- International Course in Food Science and Nutrition
(ICFSN), Wageningen, Netherlands (Dr. M. L. J. Mertens)
- Netherlands Universities Foundation for International
Cooperation (NUFFIC), The Hague, Netherlands (Dr. C. W.
Klugkist)
Through USP:
- State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
- University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil (Dr. Jose
Dutra de Oliveira)
Through UWI:
- Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI), Kingston,
Jamaica (Dr. A. W. Patterson)
Direct cooperative relationship:
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Washington, D.C., USA (Dr. Joachim von Braun)
International scientific unions:
- International Union of Food Science and Technology
(IUFoST)
- International Union of Nutrition Sciences (IUNS)
The United Nations system:
- The UNU Programme on Food and Nutrition for Human and
Social Development cooperates with the appropriate units
or divisions <>of the following organizations,
among others:
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
(UNRISD)
- World Bank (IBRD)
- World Food Programme (WFP)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
The University is represented on the Sub-committee on
Nutrition (SCN) of the United Nations Administrative Committee on
Coordination.
Research networks
Chronic energy deficiency
- International Dietary Energy Consultative Group (IDECG).
Secretariat: Nestlé Foundation, 4 Place de la Gare,
Lausanne, Switzerland. Executive Secretary: Dr. Beat
Schürch. Tel. 021-20 33 51. Fax: (Nestle Foundation)
412120 3392. Executive committee: Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw,
Chairman; Dr. Joseph Hautvast, Dr. Beat Schürch
- Division of Nutrition, National Institute of Nutrition,
Calle Vasco de Quiroga No. 15 Col. y Deleg. Tlalpan,
14000 Mexico, D.F., Mexico. Principal investigator: Dr.
Hector Bourges
- Ethiopian Nutrition Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Principal investigator: Dr. Teshome Demeke
- Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Chinese Academy
of Preventive Medicine, 29 Nan Wei Road, Beijing 100050,
China. Principal investigator: Dr. Chen Xue-Cun
- Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnologia de los Alimentos,
Universidad de Chile. Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile.
Principal investigator: Dr. Sergio Valiente
- National Institute of Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, Rome,
Italy. Principal investigator: Dr. Anna Ferro-Luzzi
- Nutrition Research and Development Centre, Komplek GIZI,
Jalan Semboja, Bogor, Indonesia. Principal investigator:
Dr. Darwin Karyadi
- Nutrition Research Centre, St. John's Medical College,
Bangalore 560 034, India. Principal investigator: Dr.
Prakash S. Shetty
- Universidad del Valle, Departamento de Pediatría,
Facultad de Medicina, Apartado Aéreo 21138, Cali,
Colombia. Principal investigator: Dr. Julio C. Reina
- University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica.
Principal investigator: Dr. Sally McGregor
Iron-deficiency anaemia
- Group for the Control of Iron Deficiency (GCID).
Secretariat: Department of Nutrition Sciences, 119 Morgan
Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94270, USA.
Tel. (510) 642-6900 Executive secretary: Dr. Fernando
Viteri. Chairman: Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw.
- Beijing Medical College-UNICEF, Department of Nutrition
and Food Hygiene, Beijing, China. Principal investigator:
Dr. Shiu-yun Liu
- Institute of Nutrition. Mahidol University (INMU), Salaya
Campus, c/o Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine.
Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama VI Road, Bangkok 4. Thailand.
Principal investigator: Dr. Aree Valyasevi
- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA),
University of Chile, Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile.
Principal investigator: Dr. Tomas Walter
- Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama
(INCAP), Carretera Roosevelt, Zona 11, Guatemala City,
Guatemala. Principal investigator: Dr. Benjamin Torun
- Institute of Public Health, Rockefellerova 7, Zagreb,
Yugoslavia. Principal investigator: Dr. Ratko Buzina.
- Laboratory of Iron Deficiency Study (LIDS), Department of
Pediatrics, First Clinical College, Beijing Medical
University, West City. Beijing 100034, China. Principal
investigator: Dr. Chen-Ting Chin
- National Research Centre, National Academy of Sciences,
Cairo, Egypt. Principal investigator: Dr. Sohair Salem
- National Institute of Nutrition, Cairo, Egypt. Principal
investigator: Dr. Mohammed A. Hussein
- Nutrition Research and Development Centre, Komplek GIZI,
Jalan Semboja, Bogor, Indonesia. Principal investigator:
Dr. Darwin Karyadi
- Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC),
Apartado 1827, Caracas, Venezuela. Principle
investigator: Dr. Miguel Layrisse
Rapid assessment procedures for nutrition and primary
health care-Anthropological approaches to improving programme
effectiveness
- Secretariat: UNU Cambridge Programme Office, Harvard
Center for Population and Development Studies. 9 Bow St.,
Cambridge. MA 02138, USA. Tel. (617) 495-0417; telex 650
3978146 MCI UW; fax (617) 495-5418; E-mail
UNUCPO@HARVARDA.BITNET. Executive Secretary: Dr. Gary
Gleason. Programme Coordinator: Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw
Cooperating investigators and advisers:
- Dr. Simi Afonia, Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
- Dr. Michael Cernea, Sociology Advisor, World Bank, 1818 H
St., NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA
- Dr. Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies,
University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, England
- Jasmina Estupinan, Psiconsult, Apdo. Postal 148C, Batan
124 y Eloy Alfaro, Quito, Ecuador
- Dr. Peter Heywood, Nutrition Program, University of
Queensland, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Queensland,
Australia
- Pamela Hunte, UNICEF, Afghanistan
- Lic. Elena Hurtado, Institute of Nutrition of Central
America and Panama, P.O. Box 1188. Guatemala City,
Guatemala
- Dr. Urban Johnson, Nutrition Division, UNICEF:USA. 3
United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA
- Dr. Yongyout Kachondham, Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol
University, Salaya Campus, c/o Research Centre, Faculty
of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama VI Rd., Bangkok
4, Thailand
- Dr. Christine Lamba, Centre for Social Research and
Chancellor College. University of Malawi, Box 278, Zomba.
Malawi
- Dr. Sandra Lane, University of California, San Francisco,
Calif., USA
- Dr. María de la Luz Alvarez, Instituto de Nutrición y
Tecnologia de los Alimentos, Universidad de Chile,
Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile
- Dr. Lenore Manderson, Tropical Health Program. University
of Queensland Medical School, Brisbane, Queensland 4006,
Australia
- Asha Mohamud, Deputy Director, FH/FP Unit, Ministry of
Health, P.O. Box 1750, Mogadisho. Somalia
- Dra. Clarice Mota, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências
Sociais, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Largo de
Sao Francisco, 1/4 Andar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Dr. David O. Nyamwaya, Institute of African Studies,
University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
- Dr. A. W. Patterson, Caribbean Food and Nutrition
Institute, P.O. Box 140, Kingston 17, Jamaica
- Dr. Gretel Pelto, Nutrition Division, World Health
Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Dr. Pertti Pelto, Department of Anthropology, University
of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268, USA
- Dr. D. Raghunandan, Society for Economic and Social
Studies, B-1, 2nd floor LSC, J Block, Saket, New Delhi
110 017, India
- Dr. Kong-Kyun Ro, Department of Management Science, Korea
Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box
131, Cheongryang, Seoul, Korea
- Prof. María E. Romero, Universidad Javeriana, Bogatá,
Colombia
- Dr. Jens H. Schulthes, Senior Programme Officer, Project
Management Division, UN/FAO World Food Programme, 747 Via
delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy
- Dr. Susan C. M. Scrimshaw, UCLA School of Public Health,
Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
- Dr. Vijaya L. Shrestha, Butwal Project Office,
Plancenter, Ltd., Butwal, Nepal
- Maria Cecília de Sousa Minayo, Escola Nacional de Saúde
Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz-Brasil, Rua General
Cristovão Barcelo, 241802 Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro,
CEP 22251, Brazil
- Farhat Sultana, Baluchistan Integrated Programme Area
Directorate, Baluchistan, Pakistan
International Network of Food Data Systems (INFOODS)
- Secretariat: Bldg. N52-457, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge MA 02139,
USA. Tel. (617)253-8004, Telex 650 2688345, Fax: (+1
overseas) (617) 491-6266. Project Coordinator: Dr. John
Klensin
Regional liaison groups:
- AFROFOODS. Coordinator: Mr. Claver R. Temalilwa, Tanzania
Food and Nutrition Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- ASEANFOODS. Coordinator: Dr. Aree Valyasevi, Institute of
Nutrition, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- EUROFOODS. Coordinator: Dr. Clive West, Department of
Human Nutrition, Agricultural University, Wageningen,
Netherlands
- LATINFOODS. Coordinator: Dr. Ricardo Bressani, Institute
of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, Guatemala
City, Guatemala
- MENAFOODS. Coordinator: Dr. Mohamed Amr Hussein,
Director, Nutrition Institute, Cairo, Egypt
- NOAFOODS. (Coordinator to be determined)
- NORDICFOODS. Coordinator: Dr. Ake Bruce, Swedish National
Food Administration, Uppsala, Sweden
- OCEANIAFOODS. Coordinator: Dr. Barbara Burlingame, DSIR,
Private Bag, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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