Background
SCRIMSHAW, Nevin was born on January 20, 1918 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Stewart and Harriet (nee Smith) Scrimshaw.
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Nutrition Policy Implementation: Issues and Experience
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The MIT International Nutrition Planning Program (INP) was initiated in the fall of 1972 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, later supplemented by funds from USAID under the 2110 Program. Con ceived as a multidisciplinary undertaking, the INP was a joint effort of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science and the Center for Inter national Studies at MIT that also included representatives of the Depart ments of Economics, Political Science, Urban Studies, Humanities (Anthropology), and Civil Engineering. It has been successful in attract ing graduate students and conducting research on various international food and nutrition problems, including the design of intervention pro grams. A condition of the original grant from the Rockefeller Foundation was the organization of a meeting to summarize and evaluate the prog ress of the program. It was ultimately decided that the best approach would be a workshop that would attempt to assess what had been learned about the implementation of food and nutrition policies since the start of the INP. Out of concern for food and nutrition policy issues, the World Hunger Programme of The United Nations University (UNU) and the Ford Foundation also agreed to cosponsor the workshop.
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- Nutrition, national development, and planning : proceedings of an international conference.
- Nutrition and agricultural development : significance and potential for the tropics : [proceedings of the Fourteenth International Biological Symposium, held in Guatemala City, Guatemala, December 2-6, 1974]
- Single-Cell Protein Safety for Animal and Human Feeding
Other Work
- Editor (with others): Amino Acid Fortification of Protein Foods, 1971, Nutrition, National Development and Planning, 1973, The Economics, Marketing and Technology of Fish Protein Concentrate, 1974, Development: Significance and Potential for the Tropics, 1976, Single-Cell Protein: Safety for Animal and Human Feeding, 1979, Nutrition Policy Implementation: Issues and Experience, 1983, Diarrhea and Malnutrition: Interactions, Mechanisms and Interventions, 1983, Chronic Energy Deficiency, 1987, Acceptability of Milk and Milk Products in Populations with Lactose Intolerance, 1988, Nutrition in the Elderly, 1989, Activity, Energy Expenditure and Energy Requirements of Infants and Children, 1990, RAP: Rapid Assessment Procedures: Qualitative Methodologies for Planning and Evaluation of Health Related Programs, 1992, Protein-energy Interactions, 1992, Community-based Longitudinal Nutrition and Health Studies: Classical Examples from Guatemala, Haiti, and Mexico, 1995, The Effects of Improved Nutrition in Early Childhood: The Institute of Nutrition of Central American and Panama Follow-up Study, 1995, The Nutrition and Health Transition of Democratic Costa Rica, 1995, Energy and Protein Requirements, 1996, Causes and Consequences of Intrauterine Growth Retardation, 2000. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Nevin Stewart Stewart Scrimshaw
educator nutritionist physician
Nevin SCRIMSHAW, American professor of nutrition. Award, Institute; Award in Clinical Nutrition; Award, M; Award, American Society; Award, American Institute; Medal, Franklin Institute; Medal of Honor; Award 1988. N.A.S., Institute of Medicine, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences and numerous other national and foreign scientific societies and asscns.; numerous committees and advisory panels to United Nations agencies and other organisations.
Education
Bachelor with honors, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1938. Master of Arts in Biology, Harvard University, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy in Physiology, Harvard University, 1941.
Master in Public Health, Harvard University, 1959. Doctor of Medicine with honors, University Rochester, 1945.
Career
Intern Gorgas Hospital, 1945-1946. Rockefeller postdoctoral fellow University Rochester, New York, 1946—1947, Merck National Research Council fellow, 1947—1949. Assistant resident in obstetrics-gynecology Strong Memorial Hospital, Genesee Hospital, 1948—1949.
Director Institute Nutrition Central America and Panama, Guatemala, 1949—1961, consultant director Guatemala, 1961—1965, consultant Guatemala, since 1965. Consultant nutrition Pan-American San Bureau World Health Organization, 1948—1949, regional advisor on nutrition, 1949—1953. Director Clinical Research Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962—1966, 1979—1983, director international food and nutrition program, 1976—1988, professor human nutrition, 1961—1976, head department nutrition and food science, 1961—1979, institute professor, 1976—1987, emeritus, since 1988.
Visiting professor Columbia University, New York City, 1976—1988, visiting lecturer, 1961—1966, Harvard University, 1968—1985. Adjunct professor Tufts University. Member government advisory committee National Institutes of Health.
Chairman international committee National Research Council. Director development studies division United Nations University, 1985—1986, food nutrition program, 1975—1997, senior advisor, since 1998. Member advisory committee World Health Organization, Nutrition Foundation, others.
Works
book
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Nutrition Policy Implementation: Issues and Experience
(The MIT International Nutrition Planning Program (INP) wa...)
- Nutrition, national development, and planning : proceedings of an international conference.
- Nutrition and agricultural development : significance and potential for the tropics : [proceedings of the Fourteenth International Biological Symposium, held in Guatemala City, Guatemala, December 2-6, 1974]
- Single-Cell Protein Safety for Animal and Human Feeding
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Nutrition Policy Implementation: Issues and Experience
Other Work
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Editor (with others): Amino Acid Fortification of Protein Foods, 1971, Nutrition, National Development and Planning, 1973, The Economics, Marketing and Technology of Fish Protein Concentrate, 1974, Development: Significance and Potential for the Tropics, 1976, Single-Cell Protein: Safety for Animal and Human Feeding, 1979, Nutrition Policy Implementation: Issues and Experience, 1983, Diarrhea and Malnutrition: Interactions, Mechanisms and Interventions, 1983, Chronic Energy Deficiency, 1987, Acceptability of Milk and Milk Products in Populations with Lactose Intolerance, 1988, Nutrition in the Elderly, 1989, Activity, Energy Expenditure and Energy Requirements of Infants and Children, 1990, RAP: Rapid Assessment Procedures: Qualitative Methodologies for Planning and Evaluation of Health Related Programs, 1992, Protein-energy Interactions, 1992, Community-based Longitudinal Nutrition and Health Studies: Classical Examples from Guatemala, Haiti, and Mexico, 1995, The Effects of Improved Nutrition in Early Childhood: The Institute of Nutrition of Central American and Panama Follow-up Study, 1995, The Nutrition and Health Transition of Democratic Costa Rica, 1995, Energy and Protein Requirements, 1996, Causes and Consequences of Intrauterine Growth Retardation, 2000. Contributor articles to professional journals.
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Membership
Trustee Rockefeller Foundation, 1971—1983, Pan-American Health and Education Foundation, 1986—1992. President International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries, since 1982. Fellow: American Public Health Association (vice president 1978, award of excellence in promoting and protecting health of people 1974), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society Clinical Nutrition, Royal Society Health, American Society Nutritional Sciences.
Member: National Academy of Sciences (chair applied biological section 1973-1976, 1988-1991), National Institute Medicine, others, International Epidemiological Association, International Union Nutritional Sciences (president 1978-1981), American Epidemiological Society, American Physiological Society, Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Public Health Association, Massachusetts Public Health Association, American Board Nutrition, American College Preventive Medicine, American College Nutrition, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Institute Medicine National Academy of Sciences.
Connections
Married Mary Ware Goodrich, 1941. 5 children.
- Father:
- Stewart
- Mother:
- Harriet (nee Smith) Scrimshaw
- Spouse:
- Mary Ware Goodrich
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Nationality
American
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Harvard University , Master in Public Health -
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Career
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Recipient Osborne and Mendal award, 1960, International award, Institute Food Technologists, 1969, medal of honor, Fundacion F. Cuenca Villoro, Spain, 1978, Bristol-Myers prize, 1988, Alan Shawn Feinstein award, 1991, World Food prize, 1991, Kellogg award in international nutrition, 2002, Lifetime Achievement award, United Nations, 2004.Recipient Osborne and Mendal award, 1960, International award, Institute Food Technologists, 1969, medal of honor, Fundacion F. Cuenca Villoro, Spain, 1978, Bristol-Myers prize, 1988, Alan Shawn Feinstein award, 1991, World Food prize, 1991, Kellogg award in international nutrition, 2002, Lifetime Achievement award, United Nations, 2004.