Nevin Scrimshaw papers, 1950-1985.
Collection Number: 6563
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Nevin Scrimshaw papers, 1950-1985.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6563
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, publications, reports, professional writings, and notes concerning
Scrimshaw's work in international nutrition and public health and with the World Health
Organization,and the United Nations. Also his study of public health issues in Asia,
Africa, Central America, and the United States.
Creator:
Scrimshaw, Nevin S.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Food and Nutrition Board
Quanitities:
34.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Includes correspondence, publications, reports, professional writings, and notes concerning
Scrimshaw's work in international nutrition and public health and with the World Health
Organization,and the United Nations. Also his study of public health issues in Asia,
Africa, Central America, and the United States.
Includes articles, reports and memos concerning breastfeeding.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Nevin Scrimshaw papers, #6563. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Professor of Nutrition, MIT. Dr. Scrimshaw did his undergraduate work at Ohio Wesleyan
University and received an M.A. in biology and a Ph.D. in physiology from Harvard
in 1941. He attended the University of Rochester medical school and received his M.D.
in 1945.
In 1949 he became the founding director of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America
and Panama (INCAP). He helped develop INCAP into one of the world.s most comprehensive
and productive institutions devoted to the study and alleviation of global malnutrition.
In 1961 he resigned from INCAP to become a professor of Human Nutrition at MIT and
head of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science.
An authority on international nutrition, his interests range from nutritional anthropology
to food science and technology. He is a member of a number of professional societies
and he has been active on a number of advisory committees as well as the UN and WHO.
Dr. Scrimshaw has published over 350 scientific articles and has received numerous
awards.
Names:
World Health Organization
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- : Faculty.
United Nations
Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama
Subjects:
Nutrition -- Developing nations.
Public health -- Africa.
Public health -- Asia.
Public health -- Latin America.
Breastfeeding.
Nutrition.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I: Nutrition Programs and PAG
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| Box 1 |
World Health Organization (WHO) nutrition program, U.S. food aid policies, Pakistan,
Peru, Food for Peace Program
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| Box 2 |
Protein Isolates, Nutrition and Refugee Populations, intestinal diseases and parastic
infections, infant and child nutrition, Arusha (Pakistan)
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| Box 3 |
Protein Advisory Group (PAG)
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| Box 4 |
Protein Advisory Group (PAG)
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| Box 5 |
Protein Advisory Group (PAG)
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| Box 6 |
Protein Advisory Group (PAG)
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| Box 7 |
Protein Advisory Group (PAG)
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| Box 8 |
Protein Advisory Group (PAG)
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Series II: Personal Papers, Projects, and Correspondence
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| Box 9 |
World Hunger Program, NAS world food and nutrition study, Bangladesh refugees
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1968-1981 | |
| Box 10 |
USDA, aid to India, U.N., correspondence
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1962-1973 | |
| Box 11 |
Mekong, soybean, corn, Agriculture and green revolution, Soya products, Sorghum, alternative
protein sources
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1960-1989 | |
| Box 12 |
Health policy and planning, correspondence, nutrition and mental development
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1968-1978 | |
| Box 13 |
Correspondence, lecture notes, notes from the Philippines, photographs
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1975 | |
| Box 14 |
Nutritional Development papers, South Africa, correspondence
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1950-1981 | |
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Series III: International Organizations and Committees
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| Box 15 |
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)-committee on International Health: minutes and
reports
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1975-1977 | |
| Box 16 |
NAS and World Health Organization (WHO) regarding Africa, U.N. General Assembly, U.N.
Research Institute for social development, U.N. Industrial Development Organization,
correspondence
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1977-1983 | |
| Box 17 |
Food and Nutrition Board (FNB): committee meetings, programs, studies
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1968-1976 | |
| Box 18 |
FNB: committee on International Nutrition Programs, Directories, WHO: advisory committees
on medical research
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1969-1979 | |
| Box 19 |
WHO: tropical diseases, committee papers and reports
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| Box 20 |
WHO: Nutrition Intervention Evaluation Project; Country files: Brazil, China, Colombia,
India, Indonesia, North Vietnam, Pakistan, South Vietnam, "Foundations for a New U.S.
Health Policy"
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1960-1989 | |
| Box 21 |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. (FAO) and WHO research projects, reports,
conference papers
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| Box 22 |
FAO, lecture notes, FAO/WHO Committee on Nutrition: session notes and statistics
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1966-1981 | |
| Box 23 |
U.N., joint FAO/WHO Committee on Protein requirements, FAO/WHO/United Nations University
(UNU) conference 1981, UNICEF/WHO committee on Health Policy, other U.N. organizations
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1981 | |
| Box 24 |
U.N., Subcommittee on Nutrition, UNU, U.N. Economic and Social council, UNESCO, World
Food Council, Protein Advisory Group (PAG), reports and agendas, notes
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| Box 25 |
UN/ACC Subcommittee on Nutrition: 6th-8th, 12th-14th session notes, UNU reports and
papers
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1971-1985 | |
| Box 26 |
UN/ACC Subcommittee on Nutrition; site visits: Philippines, West Indies, India and
Europe, Moscow, Costa Rica and Colombia; World Food Council: Ministerial Sessions
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1979-1981 | |
| Box 27 |
UNICEF: papers and reports; Conference on Nutrition Education: Mexico 1972; general
progress report: Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries 1969; education and training
programs: FAO/UNICEF/WHO 1960
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1960-1972 | |
| Box 28 |
US/Japan Coop Program: annual and five year reports, Malnutrition Panel meetings,
Malnutrition Special Study Sections
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1968-1974 | |
| Box 29 |
US/Japan Coop Program: Malnutrition Panel meetings, correspondence, progress reports,
joint malnutrition panel meetings
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1970-1975 | |
| Box 30 |
US/Japan Coop Program: Malnutrition Panel meetings, correspondence and notes, cooperative
medical science program
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1973-1981 | |
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Series IV: Articles
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| Box 31 |
Breastfeeding articles and reports from around the world
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1960-1979 | |
| Box 32 |
Breastfeeding articles and reports from around the world
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1960-1979 | |
| Box 33 |
Breastfeeding articles and reports from around the world
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1960-1979 | |
| Box 34 |
Breastfeeding articles and reports from around the world
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1960-1979 | |
| Box 35 |
Breastfeeding articles and reports from around the world
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1960-1979 | |