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Behrman served as vice chair for the Committee on Department of Energy Radiation Epidemiological Research Programs for the Board on Radiation Effects Research. He holds memberships in the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Pediatrics Society, the Perinatal Research Society, Sigma Xi, and the Society for Pediatric Research, for which he served a term as vice president.
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She was awarded the Medallion Award from the American Dietetic Association, a World Health Organization Fellowship to University of London, New Zealand, and a Churchill Fellowship to the University of London the first given to an American dietitian. Additional special assignments include the National Nutrition Policy Study, nutrition consultant to the Office of Economic Opportunity-Apache Tribal Council, and Scientific Liaison Staff, White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health.
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She was the principal investigator of the WICMedicaid study that estimated the effects of prenatal WIC participation and prenatal care adequacy on birth outcomes and Medicaid costs during the first 60 days after birth. In addition, she conducted analyses of the effects of WIC participation on infant mortality and very low birthweight among Medicaid newborns, and has investigated the infant feeding practices, health care utilization, and immunization status of infant WIC participants.
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His other professional experience includes special assistant to the director of Division of Health Examination Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics, WHO medical officer at the Instituto de Nutricion de Centro America y Panama, and professor of maternal and child health at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala. Currently, Dr.
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Her responsibilities cover research, policy analysis and counsel on legislation and public policy issues. Her areas of specialty include domestic hunger and food programs such as WIC, school food programs, and food stamps.
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Pollitt provided technical assistance as a consultant to the World Bank, FRESCO, WHO, and {JNICEF. Currently, he is chair of the Nutrition and Behavioral Development Committee of the International Union of Nutrition Scientists, member of the Long Range Planning Committee and Advisory Committee of IDECG, and senior advisor to the Food Biotechnology and Poverty Program of the United Nations University in Tokyo.
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In addition to his most recent service as Program Officer for the Committee on the Prevention, Detection, and Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia Among U.S. Children and Women of Childbearing Age, he was Director of the FNB's Food Forum and was Program Officer of studies by the Committee on Opportunities in the Nutrition and Food Sciences, the Committee on the Nutrition Components of Food Labeling, and the Committee on State Food Labeling.
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Prior to joining the Institute of Medicine, she was coordinator of patient information for the national office of the American Diabetes Association, worked in the department of dietetics at the Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, and assisted in nutrition research at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
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in international health policy and programs from the George Washington University. Prior to her work with the Committee on Scientific Evaluation of WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria, Ms.
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