Officers

Ricardo Uauy, M.D., Ph.D.
President

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.

Gerald T. Keusch, M.D.
Vice President for Development

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 CeSSIAM

Dr. Solomons is Director of the Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism (CeSSIAM) located in Guatemala City. As Director, Dr. Solomons has guided the Center to a scientific agenda that includes diet and chronic disease, patterns of complementary feeding, iron status and anemia, and the safety of oral iron therapy. He is also Chair of the IUNS Task-Force on Diet, Nutrition and Long-term Health.

Staff

Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D.
Board Chair, INF
Editor-in-Chief, Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Dr. Irwin Rosenberg, the Jean Mayer University Professor of Nutrition at Tufts University, earned his M.D. at Harvard Medical School in 1959. Dr. Rosenberg has been on the INF Board since 1988. He succeeded Nevin Scrimshaw, founding editor of the FNB, as Editor-in-Chief in 1998.
Throughout his career, Dr. Rosenberg has participated in many national and international nutrition policy efforts. He was Chair of the Food and Nutrition Board and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1994. Since joining Tufts, Dr. Rosenberg served as Dean of the Friedman School for nine years and Director of the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) for 15 years.

Currently, in addition to his role with the FNB, Dr. Rosenberg directs the Nutrition and Neurocognition Laboratory at the HNRCA. Dr. Rosenberg’s research interests include nutrition and aging; folate and micronutrient malnutrition as a global problem; relationship between homocysteine, B vitamin nutriture, vascular disease and age-related cognitive decline.

Shibani Ghosh, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, INF

Shibani Ghosh, PhD is Senior Scientist at the Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation (INF) and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

Dr. Ghosh is a nutritionist with over 10 years experience in the area of public health nutrition. Her research interests include effects of amino acids on health and nutrition in developing countries, improving complementary foods (fortification and bio-fortification) for prevention of malnutrition in children aged 6-24 months, translation of innovative basic and clinical sciences research into applied evidence based community interventions, nutrition and agriculture linkages and the role of nutrition within global agenda and issues related to capacity building.

Dr. Ghosh has extensive experience working in the Middle East, West Africa and South Asia. Prior to joining the INF, she has worked as a Research Fellow at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas in Aleppo, Syria.

Michelle Badash, M.S.
Managing Editor, Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Michelle Badash, M.S., is the Managing Editor of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin, the journal publication of the Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation.

Ms. Badash has over 15 years of experience as an editorial director and writer in the public and private sectors. Her special interest is global health, and she has developed a wide range of print and web publications that communicate international health issues to scientists, healthcare professionals, and consumers.

Previous experience includes media and recruitment for a scientific research center, managing development publications for an international NGO, and directing the development of international health content for a healthcare internet company. She has won three awards from the American Medical Writers Association for excellence in healthcare writing.

Gary Gleason, Ph.D.
Director of Communications

Dr. Gleason is the Director of Communications and Associate Editor for the Food and Nutrition Bulletin. He is also Project Director of the Iron Deficiency Program Advisory Service, (IDPAS), a proactive international service supporting developing country-based projects and research dealing with iron deficiency.

Dr. Gleason undertakes INF international technical assistance and advocacy missions on iron deficiency and nutrition policy and also does international work in areas of program communication and HIV/AIDS prevention. His background includes 14 years as a professional staff member of UNICEF and FAO where he was based in Ghana, Nigeria, Turkey, Pakistan and Kazakhstan.

Outside his work for the INF, Dr. Gleason's consults on nutrition, communication, HIV/AIDS, research and evaluation for UN agencies, international NGOs, regional development banks and bilateral agencies. Dr. Gleason has a doctorate in Mass Media and Communication from the University of Iowa.

Devika Suri, M.S., M.P.H.
Program Officer, INF

Ms. Suri acquired an interest in international nutrition while working for a year on an evaluation of a child nutrition and health program at an NGO in India, which inspired her to attend the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

While a student, Ms. Suri began working at INF part-time as a program assistant in 2007. She gained further international nutrition field experience during a 2-month internship studying the dual problem of obesity and underweight in school-children in Panama. After graduating with a Masters in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition and a Masters of Public Health in January 2009, she joined the INF staff full-time, and has recently become Program Officer of the Foundation.

Ms. Suri coordinates the INF Fellowship Program, assists in research and data analysis, manages grants and keeps the INF office and website functioning smoothly.

Meagan Hardy, M.S., M.P.H.
Manuscripts Editor, Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Meagan Hardy graduated from Tufts University in 2009 with a Master's degree in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science of Policy and a Masters of Public Health from the Tufts School of Medicine. She currently works as the FNB Manuscripts Editor and resides in San Diego, California.

Rachel Silver, M.P.H.
Subscriptions Assistant, Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Rachel Silver is a recent graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine Master of Public Health program with a concentration in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Nicholas Strutt, M.S.
Junior Researcher, INF

Nick Strutt is a recent graduate of the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and holds a dual Masters degree in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition and Political Economy. Nick was a research assistant with INF while he was a student and after graduation he joined INF full time as Junior Researcher on the Lysine Ghana Project and is based in Accra, Ghana.