Jere Douglas Haas

Background

Haas, Jere Douglas was born on September 15, 1945 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jacob Charles and Dorothy Louise (Graeter) Haas.

Education

AB, Franklin and Marshall College, 1967; Master of Arts, Pennsylvania State University, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, 1973.

Career

Trainee in human biology, United States Public Health Service, Peru, 1971-1973; assistant professor anthropology, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1973-1975; assistant professor nutrition, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1975-1980; associate professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1980-1987; professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1987; Nancy Schlegel Meinig professor maternal and child nutrition director human biology program, director division nutritional science, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York. Honorary research fellow anatomy department U. Aberdeen, Scotland, 1982. Visiting professor Food Research Institute, Stanford (California) U., 1988-1989.

Member commission on nutrition during pregnancy and lactation Institute Medicine, NAS, 1988-1990. Advisor panel on nutrition World Health Organization, since 1991. Chair subcommittee on maternal anthropometry, 1991-1994.

Technical advisory group on food and nutrition Pan American Health Organisation, since 1996. Director division nutrition and health National institute Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1998.

Achievements

• Jere Douglas Haas has been listed as a noteworthy Nutritional sciences educator, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Human Biology Association (Executive Committee 1981-1985). Member American Assn.Phys. Anthropologists (vice president 1992-1994, president 1995-1997), American Institute Nutrition, Society International Nutrition Research, American Society Clinical Nutrition.

Connections

Married Sharon Faye Pitt, June 22, 1968. Children: Jeremy Michael, Jonathan Andrew.

Father:

Jacob Charles Haas

Mother:

Dorothy Louise (Graeter) Haas

Spouse:

Sharon Faye Pitt

child:

Jeremy Michael Haas

child:

Jonathan Andrew Haas