Contributors

Ernesto Pollitt (Ph.D. 1968, Cornell University) is a psychologist and professor of human development at the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, and member of the Program of International Nutrition, University of California, Davis. He is coprincipal investigator of the follow-up study reported in this Monograph. The main research focus of his professional career has been on the interactions between malnutrition and behavioral development in low-income countries.

Kathleen S. Gorman (Ph.D. 1987, University of Maryland) is a psychologist and research associate at the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis. She was the field director of the behavioral sciences component of the follow-up study. Her research work has been primarily concerned with the determinants of educational progress among rural children in Guatemala.

Patrice L. Engle (Ph.D. 1971, Stanford University) is a psychologist and chair of the Department of Psychology of the California Polytechnic Institute. She participated in both the longitudinal and the follow-up phases of the study. She has published extensively on the effects of women's work on child rearing and development in rural populations in Central American countries.

Reynaldo Martorell (Ph.D. 1973, University of Washington) is a physical anthropologist, the principal investigator of the follow-up study, and a member of the research team that conducted the longitudinal study. At the time the follow-up study began, he was a professor of nutrition at Stanford University and later became leading professor at the Division of Nutrition at Cornell University. One of the main areas of his research has been the synergistic relation of infection and physical growth and the effects of early supplementary feeding on growth and development in low-income countries.

Juan Rivera (Ph.D. 1988, Cornell University) is a nutrition epidemiologist and currently head of the Division of Nutrition and Health at the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, Guatemala City. He served as the scientific and technical coordinator of the follow-up study. One of his research interests has been the effects of nutrition supplementation in the rehabilitation of severely malnourished children.

Theodore D. Wachs (Ph.D. 1968, George Peabody College) is professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He is a member of the editorial boards of Child Development, Developmental Psychology, and the International Journal of Behavioral Development. He is the author of The Nature of Nurture (1992) and coeditor (with Robert Plomin) of Conceptualization and Measurement of Organism Environment Interaction (1991). His research interests include the study of the role of early environmental influences on development and investigating the processes whereby individual difference factors mediate relations between environment and development.

Nevin S. Scrimshaw (Ph.D. 1941, Harvard University; M.D. 1945, University of Rochester; M.P.H. 1959, Harvard University) is a clinical and public health nutritionist who founded the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) and served for many years as head of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is now Institute Professor Emeritus. In 1975, he organized the World Hunger Programme for the United Nations University, Tokyo, and continues to direct its food and nutrition activities. He is the founder and president of the International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries (INFDC). In 1991, he was named the World Food Prize laureate. His current interests relate to the functional consequences of iron deficiency, the effects of chronic energy deficiency on developing country populations, rapid assessment procedures for the evaluation and improvement of programs of nutrition and primary health care, and nutrition, health, and demographic transition in developing countries. He is the author of over 600 publications and the author or editor of 15 books.