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PROFILE

 

In this section we give brief bios of scholars we consider important is scholarly writing and those who make a mark on all of us.

We have three such personalities in this Issue 19 of AJFAND. We acknowledge their commitment to AJFAND. Dr Nevin Scrimshaw will turn 90 this year and the ANEC III Conference taking place in African Cairo in the middle of October this year will honor his life and achievements.

I am proud to be associated with Dr Scrimshaw.

His tenacity has inspired many of us in the field of Nutrition.He just never gives up!!! We love you Nevin.

Ruth, Editor-in-Chief, AJFAND

 

Featured in this issue

1. Prof. Nevin Scrimshaw

2. Dr. Henry Gadaga

3. Dr. Brenda McGadney-Douglass

 

Prof. Ken Buckle

ANEC Celebrates Nevin S Scrimshaw’s 90th Birthday
at ANEC III, Cairo, Egypt - October 2008

The Africa Nutritional Epidemiology Conference (ANEC) is a leading regional scientific nutrition forum in Africa which seeks to promote the effective harmonisation of efforts to improve nutrition in Africa through scientific dialogue, collaborative research, networking, creating training opportunities for young scientists and practitioners and putting nutrition at the heart of the public health and developmental agenda in Africa.

In its pursuit of these goals, ANEC seeks to encourage all peoples, irrespective of their background, origin, religion or colour to emulate the fine example of our teachers and trainers before us who through great sacrifices, have sought to follow the strength of their convictions and toiled to promote the global nutrition agenda and in particular, nutrition and health in developing countries.

It is therefore with the greatest pleasure and honour that we celebrate the life and work of Professor Nevin S Scrimshaw by celebrating his 90th year with him at the next ANEC conference, ANEC III in Cairo, Egypt from 13 to 16 October 2008.

Professor Scrimshaw and his contemporaries were the pace setters in international nutrition and even when it was less fashionable in medical practice for some to see nutrition at the very heart of the health agenda, he worked tirelessly to promote such a worthy cause as ours and we owe our current status as a major specialty in the field of nutrition, medicine, public health and indeed human development to the pioneering efforts of this great man.

Nevin S Scrimshaw was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1918 and did undergraduate work at Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A. 1938) and graduate work at Harvard (M.A. in biology 1939).  He received his Ph.D. in physiology at Harvard in 1941 and then attended the University of Rochester medical school, receiving his M.D. degree in 1945 and an MPH from Harvard in 1959. Dr. Scrimshaw founded the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), established to study and help solve the nutrition problems of the six countries of the area - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Republic of Panama and has since made a huge impact in nutrition globally.

Since 1961, Dr. Scrimshaw has been Professor of Human Nutrition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts where was head of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science. In 1976, he was appointed "Institute Professor" at MIT, a distinguished rank reserved for scholars of special accomplishment to recognize achievement and leadership of high intellectual quality. He was a consultant and regional adviser in nutrition to the World Health Organization (WHO) and became Senior Adviser to the Rector for the World Hunger Programme of the United Nations University when it began in 1975.

He is a clinical and public health nutritionist whose 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 and nutrition and health issues associated with demographic transition in developing countries.
We are proud and indeed honoured to join with the thousands of Nevin’s students who are global leaders today in the field of nutrition and public health in celebrating his work and his life and wish him ever more strength as he moves towards a whole Century not-out!!! Dr. Scrimshaw contributed original leadership that still continues towards protein nutrition and child health.

In his honour, ANEC is proud to announce the Nevin S Scrimshaw Lecture to be a permanent feature at all future ANEC conferences to be delivered by eminent scientists and the Nevin S Scrimshaw Medal to be awarded to deserving scientists.

Programme for Scrimshaw Symposium

      1. Introduction of Prof Scrimshaw by Prof Gabr (10 minutes)
      2. Significance of Scrimshaw’s contribution to science by Prof Noel Solomons (30 minutes)
      3. IUNS brief on Scrimshaw by  Prof Ricardo Uauy (10 minutes)
      4. Contributions from colleagues and friends of Scrimshaw (10 minutes)
      5. ANEC presentation and announcement of Scrimshaw symposium by ANEC Council Chairperson (10 minutes)
      6. Response by Prof Nevin Scrimshaw (10 minutes)
      7. Cutting of 90th birthday cake

 

 

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Prof. Richard Douglass

Dr. Henry Tendekayi Gadaga

I hold a PhD in Food Science form the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. My areas of research interest include; traditional fermented foods, dairy technology, pre- and probiotics in food, food safety and street vended food, and food consumption patterns. I am currently employed as a lecturer in the Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Health Sciences, National University of Lesotho. I am the current Deputy Dean of the Faculty.  I was previously a lecturer in Food Science and Technology at the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Family Sciences, University of Zimbabwe. I served as Head of Department there for two years from 2003 to 2005. I have examined several BSc Honours, MSc and PhD students for the University of Zimbabwe, National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe), Norwegian University of Life Sciences and the University of the Free State, South Africa. I have published 16 articles in international peer reviewed journals, and 6 in non-peer reviewed publications. I have extensive experience in training health officers on food safety and food inspection and I have written 2 training manuals on food inspection. I am a reviewer of the African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AFJAND), the Online Journal of Food Science, and the Journal of Food Biotechnology. I am married with 2 children.

 

     

     


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    Dr. McGadney-Douglass

    Dr. Brenda McGadney-Douglass

    Dr. McGadney-Douglass’ career in social work (clinical, research, and policy), undergraduate and graduate education, and academic administration spans three decades in the United States, Canada, Ghana, and other locations in West Africa. She has focused the majority of her teaching, research, and service on applied gerontology, international social work, and health care for the elderly, poor, and underserved, and international legal and social issues of refugees and asylum-seekers.  Her field research in Ghana began in 1999 and has been continuous to the present time with field data collection in 1999, 2001/02 and 2005.  She served as Visiting Scholar at the University of Ghana in 2002-2002, and study abroad program in 2005.  Currently in addition to faculty position at the University of Toledo, Dr. McGadney-Douglass is an Adjunct Professor, School of Social Work, at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, CA.

    In regards to teaching, Dr. McGadney-Douglass commenced her career with a five-year stay in 1977 as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Aging Studies Program (funded by the U.S. Administration on Aging) at Southern University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.  Following receipt of her doctorate, Dr. McGadney-Douglass, added an additional 14 years of teaching mostly at the graduate level at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI), University of Toledo (Toledo, OH), University of Washington (Seattle, WA), and University of Ghana (Accra, Ghana). 

    Dr. McGadney-Douglass’ research career began in 1992 with a field study in Chicago, IL, USA to assess the informal and formal supports of family caregivers of frail elders.  This study was followed by an assessment of the impact of the use of a subsidized (electronic) personal response system/device by low-income elders in comparison to non-subsidized high-income elders on frequency of emergency room use and hospital length of stay.  She conducted a pilot study assessing the impact of a policy agreement between Canada and the U.S. that influenced the recognition and settlement of asylum seekers, especially women, due to gender-based violence. Studies in Ghana included two conflict studies that focused on an analysis of indigenous management by chiefs, internally displaced women, and stakeholders; and another study that accessed the role of grandmothers in the survival of severely – Kwashiorkor inflicted- protein malnourished children.

    Dr. McGadney-Douglass has published as sole author and co-author in numerous scholarly journals, many peer-reviewed.  Over the years, she has served as a reviewer for peer-reviewed journals. Currently, she serves on the Journal Association Boards for Research on Mothering (ARM), York University, Toronto, Canada and Reflections:  Narratives of Professional Helping, California State University, Long Beach, Department of Social Work, Long Beach, CA, USA; Member of Zonta International, Chicago, IL.

    Dr. McGadney-Douglass holds a Doctorate degree in Social Work from the School of Social Work Administration, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA and a Masters in Social Work and Bachelor of Arts Degrees from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 

     
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