Kenneth H. Brown, MD, FAAP, emeritus distinguished professor for the Department of Nutrition and Institute for Global Nutrition at the University of California, Davis, has been awarded the Samuel J. Fomon Nutrition Award by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
This prestigious annual award recognizes an individual or a project for outstanding achievement in research relating to the nutrition of infants and children.
A small sachet of a fortified food-based supplement added to young children’s daily diets in low- and middle-income countries has shown remarkable results in preventing child mortality and malnutrition, while also promoting healthy development. The new findings from researchers at the University of California, Davis, based on an analysis combining data from 14 trials, were published in a series of four papers in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Demewoz Haile Woldegebreal has been named a finalist in the American Society for Nutrition’s (ASN) Graduate Student Research Award Competition, an educational activity that honors outstanding research and helps students hone their research presentation skills.
