Weill Cornell Medical College
Global Health Curriculum
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Weill Cornell Global Health Grand Rounds Presents:
Food Systems and Global Health: A Policy Perspective
Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Cornell University
2001 World Food Prize Laureate
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
5:00-6:00PM
Weill Auditorium (C-200)
1300 York Avenue
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY
Open to the Public
Biography: Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the H. E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University. He is past Chairman of the Science Council of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and Past President of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA). He has a B.S. from the Danish Agricultural University, a M.S. and Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University and honorary doctoral degrees from universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Switzerland, and India. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Agricultural Economics Association. He served 10 years as the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Director General and seven years as department head; seven years as an economist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Colombia; and six years as a distinguished professor at Wageningen University. He is the 2001 World Food Prize Laureate and the recipient of several awards for his research and communication of research results. He teaches and advises graduate and undergraduate students on globalization and poverty and a social entrepreneurship approach to government policy for the global food system. His research includes economic analyses of food and nutrition policy, globalization and poverty, agricultural development and research and technology policy. Dr. Pinstrup-Andersen's publications include Seeds of Contention, co-authored with Ebbe Schi and published in five languages, and more than 400 other books, refereed journal articles, papers and book chapters, including recent books on Ethics, Hunger and Globalization, co-edited with Peter Sandoe; Agricultural Trade Liberalization and the Least Developed Countries, co-edited with Niek Koning; Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries, co-edited with Fuzhi Cheng; and edited the African Food System and its Interaction with Human Health and Nutrition
About the Global Health Grand Rounds:
The Global Health Grand Rounds are a monthly public lecture series that allow students, residents, faculty, and community members to discuss pressing global health issues with an array of leaders. The Rounds is one component of Weill Cornell's Global Health Curriculum. A listing of speakers for the 2011 - 2012 series can be found at med.cornell.edu/globalhealth.
The Global Health Grand Rounds is sponsored by: The Medical Student Executive Committee (MSEC), the Global Emergency Medicine Program at New York-Presbyterian, the Office of Global Health Education, the Center for Global Health, the Mario Einuadi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, and the Weill Cornell Events Management Office.