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Jean-Pierre Habicht papers

 Collection
Identifier: 29-2-3679

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes correspondence, publications, reviews and subject files concerning Habicht's international work in nutrition and epidemiology and with the World Health Organization.

Dates

  • 1940-2007

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University.

Jean-Pierre Habicht obtained medical training in Switzerland, further pediatric training in the United States, a Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry from MIT and public health training from Harvard, worked in Guatemala for the Institute of Nutrition of Central America as a World Health Organization medical officer in charge of primary health care and epidemiological studies, and then worked for the United States National Center for Health Statistics on nutritional surveillance. He came to Cornell University in 1977 to develop a program of research and study in nutritional epidemiology.

Extent

10 cubic feet. (10 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Includes correspondence, publications, reviews and subject files concerning Habicht's international work in nutrition and epidemiology and with the World Health Organization.

Physical Description

Correspondence, Publications

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Eileen Keating
Date completed:
December 2008
EAD encoding:
RMC Staff, December 2008
Date modified:
RMC Staff, October 2018
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Eileen Keating
Date
December 2008
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)