UNU projects on food and nutrition

In the Cambridge project office:

Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Project Director for Food and Nutrition, and Editor, Food and Nutrition Bulletin
Ms. Edwina Murray, Assistant Editor, Food and Nutrition Bulletin
Mrs. Sarah Jeffries, Editorial Consultant, Food and Nutrition Bulletin
Ms. Rebecca Chamberlain, Fellowship Officer

At the UNU Centre, Tokyo:
Dr. Abraham Besrat, Training and Fellowship Officer

Part time.

Associated institutions

CENTRAL FOOD TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CFTRI). Mysore 570013, India. Tel. 22298. Cable: UNVERCENT MYSORE. Telex: 0846-241 FTRI IN. Co-ordinator: Dr. B. L. Amla

DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION AND FOOD SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF GHANA (DNFS). P.O. Box 134, Legon, Ghana. Cable: UNIVERSITY LEGON. Co-ordinator: Dr. R. Orraca-Tetteh

FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF IFE. Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Tel. 2290 to 2299. Co-ordinator: Dr. J. O. Adejuwon

INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY (IATA). Jaime Roig 11, Valencia 10, Spain. Tel. 36908-00. Cable: IATA Valencia 10, Spain. Co-ordinator: 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. Co-ordinator: Dr. Jose Riumallo

INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION OF CENTRAL AMERICA AND PANAMA (INCAP). Carretera Roosevelt, Zona 11, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Tel. 43762. Cable: INCAP GUATEMALA. Co-ordinator: Dr. Maarten D. C. Immink.

THE INTERNATIONAL FOOD AND NUTRITION POLICY AND PLANNING PROGRAM, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (IFNP). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 20A-201, Cambridge, Mass. 02139, USA. Tel. (617) 2537617. Cable: MIT CAM. Telex: 92-1473 MIT CAM. Co-ordinator: Dr. William M. Rand

KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KAIST). P.O. Box 131, Cheongryang, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Tel. (967) 8801. Cable: KISTROK. Telex: KISTROK K 27380. Co-ordinator: Dr. Tai-Wan Kwon

LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE (LSHTM). Keppel Street (Gower Street), London WC1E 7HT, UK. Tel. 01-636 8636. Co-ordinator: Dr. Philip Payne

NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NFRI). 2-1-2 Kannondai, Yatabe-machi, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki-ken 300-21, Japan. Tel. 02975-6-8011. Co-ordinator: Dr. Keiji Umeda

NETHERLANDS INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION INSTITUTE (NINI). Lawickse Allee 11, P.O. Box 88, 6700 AB, Wageningen, Netherlands. Tel. (08370) 19040. Co-ordinator: Dr. Joseph Hautvast

THE 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

UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE (UVC). Apartado Aéreo 20353, Cali, Colombia. Co-ordinator: Dr. Luis Fajardo

UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI (UNK). Department of Food Technology and Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Kabete Campus, P.O. Box 41670, Nairobi, Kenya. Co-ordinator: 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. Mona Campus: Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Tel. 927-6661. Cable: UNIVERS JAMAICA. Contact: Dr. Michael Golden

Other co-operating organizations

Through the British Council:

Agricultural Research Council, Food Research Institute, Norwich, UK
Department of Food Science, University of Reading, UK
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Tropical Development and Research Institute (TDRI), London, UK
University of Reading, Reading, UK (Dr. Harry Nursten)

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 IFNP:
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 Pellett)
Department of Nutrition, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.. USA (Dr. M. C. Nesheim)
Departments of Nutrition and Medical Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn., USA (Dr. Gretel Pelto)
School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Md., USA (Dr. Kenneth Brown)
School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., USA (Dr. Snehendu B. Kar)
Tufts University School of Nutrition. Medford. Mass. (Dr. Stanley N. Gershoff). and Division of Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine. Boston, Mass., USA (Dr. Gerald T. Keusch)

Through INCAP:
Central American Institute of Corporation Management (INCAE), Costa Rica (Dr. John C. Ickis)
Instituto Centroamericano de Investigación v Tecnología Industrial (ICAITI), Guatemala City, Guatemala (Dr. Carlos Rolz)

Through KAIST:
Korea University, Food Research Center, College of Agriculture, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Dr. Cherl-Ho Lee)
Korea University. Korea Nutrition Research Institute, Seoul. Republic of Korea (Dr. Jin Soon Ju)

Through NCP:
Food and Nutrition Research Institute. Manila. Philippines
University of the Philippines at Los Baños. Los Baños, Philippines

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

Through UWI:
Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI), Kingston, Jamaica (Dr. A. W. Patterson)

Direct co-operative relationship:
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, D.C., USA (Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen)

International scientific unions:
International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST)
International Union of Nutrition Sciences (IUNS)

The United Nations system:
The UNU projects on food and nutrition co-operate with the appropriate units or divisions of the following organizations with which the University has memoranda of understanding:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
World Food Programme (WEP)
World Health Organization (WHO)

The University is represented on the Sub-committee on Nutrition (SCN) of the United Nations Administrative Committee on Co-ordination.

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. Telex: 454299 TXC CH. Fax: (Nestle Foundation) 41 2 120 7524. 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 Health, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, 10 Tian Tan Xili, Beijing, China. Principal investigator: Dr. Chen Xue-cun
Instituto de Nutrición, y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile. Principal investigator: Dr. José Riumallo
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, Departmento de Pediatria, Facultad de Medicina, Apartado Aéreo 2188, Cali, Colombia. Principal investigator: Dr. Julio C. Reina
University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Principal investigator: Dr. Sally McGregor

Iron-deficiency anaemia

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 Torún
Institute of Public Health, Rockefellerova 7, Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Principal investigator: Dr. Ratko Buzina.
National Institute of Hygiene, Yungan Hsi-lee, Chien Kuo Men-wai, Beijing, 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. Principal investigator: Dr. Miguel Layrisse

Nutrition and primary health care

Baluchistan Integrated Programme Area Directorate, Baluchistan, Pakistan. Co-investigators: Farhat Sultana and Pamela Hunte
Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI). P.O. Box 140, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Principal investigator: Dr. Renee Dankerlin
Centre for Social Research and Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Box 27X, Zomba, Malawi. Principal investigator: Dr. Christine Lamba
International Foster Parents Plan, Inc., 804 Quaker Lane, East Greenwich, R.I., USA. Dr. Victor Lara
Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, c/o Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama VI Road. Bangkok 4, Thailand. Principal investigator: Dr. Yongyout Kachonpadunkitti
Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) (for Central America), P.O. Box 1188, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Principal investigator: Lic. Elena Hurtado
Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile. Principal investigator: Dr. María de Luz Alvarez
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Management Science, P.O. Box 131, Cheongryang, Seoul, Korea. Principal investigator: Dr. Kong-Kyun Ro
Save the Children Fund. CPO Box 992, Kathmandu, Nepal. Principal investigator: Dr. Vijaya L. Shrestha
Society for Economic and Social Studies, B-1, 2nd Floor LSC, J Block, Saket, New Delhi 110 017, India. Principal investigator: Dr. D. Raghunandan
UNICEF-Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Principal investigator: Dr. María D. Alvarez
UN/FAO World Food Programme, Room F, 747 Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. Dr. Jens H. Schulthes, Senior Programme Officer, Project Management Division
Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia. Professors María
E. Romero and Adela Morales de Look
University of Ife, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Principal investigator: Dr. Simi Afonia
University of Lubumbashi, Zaire (Shaba Province). Principal investigator: Ngokwey Ndolamb
University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, Nairobi. Kenya. Principal investigator: Dr. David O. Nyamwaya
World Bank, 1818 H St., NW, Washington, D.C., USA. Dr. Michael Cernea, Sociology Advisor

Brazil: 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. Tel. (021) 239-1407
Brazil: Maria Cecília de Sousa Minayo, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fudação Oswaldo Cruz-Brasil, Rua General Cristovão Barcelo, 24/802 Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. CEP: 22251. Tel. (021) 290-0387
Ecuador: Jasmina Estupinan, Psiconsult, Apdo. Postal 148C, Batan 124 y Eloy Alfaro, Quito, Ecuador
Somalia: Asha Mohamud, Deputy Director, FH/FP Unit, Ministry of Health, P.O. Box 1750, Mogadisho, Somalia. Tel. 81977

International Network of Food Data Systems (INFOODS)

Secretariat: Bldg. 20A-226, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Tel. (617) 253-8004. Telex: 650 2688345. Fax: (+1 overseas) 617 491-6266
Ms. Roselyn Romberg. Executive Secretary
Dr. John Klensin, Information Systems Specialist
Executive Committee: Dr. Vernon Young, Chairman; Dr. Ricardo Bressani, Dr. Alex Campbell
Committee on Users and Needs: Dr. Gaurth Hansen, Chairman
Committee on Data Quality: Dr. David Southgate. Chairman
Committee on Terminology and Nomenclature: Dr. Stewart Truswell, Chairman
Committee on Information Systems: Dr. John Klensin, Chairman

Regional liaison groups:

AFROFOODS. Co-ordinator: Mr. Claver R. Temalilwa, Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
ASIAFOODS. Co-ordinator: Dr. Aree Valyasevi, Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
EUROFOODS. Co-ordinator: Dr. Clive West, Department of Human Nutrition, Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands
LATINFOODS. Co-ordinator: Dr. Ricardo Bressani, Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemala
MEDIFOODS. Co-ordinator: Dr. Flaminio Fidanza, Instituto di Scienza dell' Alimentazione, Universitá degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
NOAFOODS Co-ordinator: Dr. Alex Campbell, Ottawa, Ontario. Canada
NORDICFOODS. Co-ordinator Dr. Ake Bruce, Swedish National Food Administration, Uppsala. Sweden
OCEANIAFOODS (for the Oceania region) and MENAFOODS (for the Middle East and North Africa) are being organized.