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The Third
George G. Graham Lecture
The Inaugural
George G. Graham Lectureship
April 23, 2009
Interactions of Nutrition and Infection
Presented by
The Middendorf Foundation
Baltimore, Maryland
George G. Graham, M.D.
• Professor of Pediatrics & International Health
• Founding Director and First Professor in the
Division of Human Nutrition
• Founding Director of the Instituto de
Investigacion Nutricional, Lima Peru
• Numerous appointments on advisory &
editorial boards –
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National Academy of Science
National Institutes of Health
American Institute of Nutrition
Congressional testimonies
• Awards:
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Joseph Goldberger Award (AMA)
Borden Award (AAP)
E. Leon Garcia Award (SPP)
• Teacher and Mentor
• Researcher: 250 scientific publications
Professor Graham’s name and legacy have
been enshrined at the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health…
• 2005: Installment of the Endowed George G.
Graham Professorship in Infant and Child Nutrition
George G. Graham Professorship Lecture Series
• 2006: Kenneth H. Brown, MD, MPH
“Food fortification to improve young children’s
nutrition in low-income countries: hope or hype?”
• 2007: William C. MacLean, Jr., MD, CM, FAAP
“Guiding public health with small nutritional studies:
lessons of 25 years in Peru”
Inaugural Endowed George G. Graham Lectureship
Presented by the Middendorf Foundation
Charles B. Stephensen, PhD, MS
Research Scientist at the USDA Western
Human Nutrition Research Center and an
Adjunct Professor of Nutrition at the
University of California, Davis
“Effects of Malnutrition on Risk
of Infection”
Claudio F. Lanata, MD, MPH
Senior Researcher at the Instituto de
Investigacion Nutricional
Lima, Peru
“Effects of Infection on
Nutritional Status”
Robert E. Black, MD, MPH
Edgar Berman Professor
Chair of the Department of International Health
and
Director of the Institute for International Programs
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
“Commentary: The Way Forward”
Nevin Scrimshaw, PhD, MS
• Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
• Founding Director of the International Food and Nutrition
Planning Program at MIT
• Founding Director of the Institute of Nutrition of Central
America and Panama (INCAP)
• Initiated and directed the World Hunger Program, and the
Food, Nutrition, Human and Social Development
Programme of the United Nations University (UNU)
• World Food Prize Laureate (1991)
• Presidential Gold Medal “Heroes of Public Health” Award
of Mexico; Knighted by the King of Thailand
• Author of >650 scientific publications
Carl E. Taylor, M.D., Dr.P.H.
• Founder and first director of the Department of International
Health at JHSPH in 1961—the first of its kind at any school of
public health.
• Worked for 30 years in India—first as director of a Presbyterian
Mission Hospital (Memorial Hospital) and as head of Preventive
and Social Medicine Department at the Christian Medical
college in Ludhiana
• Director of the Narangwal Project in India
• Director of UNICEF in China from 1984-1987
• Numerous awards: US Presidential Award for Service to
Children of the World in Especially Difficult Circumstances.
• Co-authored “Just and Lasting Change: When Communities
Own Their Futures”, published by Johns Hopkins University
Press
• Teacher and Mentor to generations of public and international
Health workers
Interactions of Nutrition and Infection:
40 to 50 Years Later
• Commemorative issue of the original WHO
Monograph with proceedings of this
minisymposium, and
• A special supplement to the Sight and Life
Newsletter with the proceedings of this
minisymposium
to be published by
Sight and Life Press
Dr. Klaus Kraemer
Director
Vicious Cycle of Malnutrition and Infection
Malnutrition
Claudio
Bob
Infection
Charles
A Conversation
with
Nevin and Carl
followed by a
Reception on the 9th floor “Top of the Hop”