Reynaldo Martorell is the Robert W Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition and in 2009 stepped down as chair of the Hubert Department of Global Health. He is Senior Advisor of the Global Health Institute of Emory University, a member of the Executive Management Team of the Flour Fortification Initiative, a Director of the Nevin S Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation, a Trustee of the Helen Keller Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board of the Cornell-Tata Agriculture-Nutrition Initiative in India. He is an advisor to UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Interamerican Development Bank. Awards include the McCollum International Lectureship, the International Nutrition Prize from Kellogg's and the Society for International Nutrition Research, the Carlos Slim Award for Lifetime Research Achievements in Health, awards for contributions in nutrition from the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), and the Government of Honduras and the Gopalan Oration and Gold Medal award from the Nutrition Society of India. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in 2003. Prior to his position at Emory, Dr Martorell held appointments at Cornell University, Stanford University and INCAP in Guatemala. Dr Martorell received a bachelor's degree in anthropology from St Louis University and a PhD in biological anthropology from the University of Washington. He was born in Honduras, Central America.
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