One Year After Haiti Earthquake, Brown School Public Health Expert Iannotti Continues Work On The Ground
On Jan. 12, 2010, Lora Iannotti, PhD, nutrition and public health expert at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, was in Leogane, a seaside town 18 miles west of Port au Prince, Haiti, working with local officials on improving the health of Haitian children.
January 11, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brown-school, haiti, health, iannotti, leogane, miles-west, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, poverty, prince, seaside-town, struck-the-poverty
Also In Global Health News: Poverty In Yemen; China’s Family Planning Policy; Preventive Medicine In Cuba; Food Security In Indonesia
AP Examines Development, Poverty Issues In Yemen “More than 50 percent of Yemen’s children are malnourished, rivaling war zones like Sudan’s Darfur and parts of sub-Saharan Africa. That’s just one of many worrying statistics in Yemen. Nearly half the population lives below the poverty line of $2 a day and doesn’t have access to proper sanitation.
December 23, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: darfur, examines, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, population, poverty, poverty-issues, poverty-line, sudan, yemen
