Officers of the Foundation
| Name and Title | Bio |
 Ricardo Uauy, M.D. Ph.D. President and Co-chair of INF Fellowship Program |
Ricardo Uauy, MD, PhD, trained in Pediatrics at Harvard and Yale and obtained his PhD at MIT under Dr. Scrimshaw. Dr. Uauy has been a leader throughout his career in international nutrition and, among other roles, has served as Director of the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA) in Chile, Advisor to several United Nations agencies including the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Chairman of the United Nations ACC/SCN Advisory Group in Nutrition, and President of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS). Dr. Uauy has been deeply committed to the INF since its inception in 1982, serving as an INF Board Member, Co-Chair of INF Fellowship Program, and Vice President for Capacity Building. |
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Gerald T. Keusch, MD, is a Special Assistant for Global Health to the President of Boston University and Senior Advisor to the Center for Global Health and Development at the university. Specializing in tropical infectious diseases, his research has ranged from the molecular pathogenesis of tropical infectious diseases to field research on the impact of malnutrition on the immune system and on host susceptibility to infectious diseases. He was a member of the Founding Board for the INF, and returned to serve on the Board in 2004. He is currently Vice President for Development for INF. |
 Noel W. Solomons, M.D. Program Director for Central America |
Dr. Noel W. Solomons received his B.A. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College in 1966, and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1970. The third year of his Chicago-based fellowship training was spent at the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), and he has been residing part- or full-time in Guatemala since 1975. After serving as an Affiliated Investigator at INCAP (1975-1985) and a faculty member of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1977-1984), he co-founded the Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism (CeSSIAM) in 1985. He continues as Senior Scientist and Scientific Director of this Foundation-affiliated biomedical research unit in Guatemala City. |
