VIII. Seminars, Workshops and Public Presentations
"Physical Growth and Development of Peruvian Infants at High and Low Altitudes." Paper presented at the 4lst Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Lawrence, KS, April l3, l972.
"Infant Growth and Development at High Altitude." Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, November l9, l972.
"Child Growth and Adaptation to High Altitude." Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, January 29, l973.
"The Development of Motor Function in Peruvian Indian and Mestizo Population." Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Dallas, TX, April l2, l973.
"Biocultural Adaptation in Growth and Development." Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, November 29, l973.
"The Family Unit as it Relates to Human Biology: A Case Study of Peruvian High and Low Altitude Populations." Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, December l, l973.
"Prenatal and Infant Growth and Development." Paper presented at a special International Biological Program seminar on Man in the Andes, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, January l5, l974.
"Variation in the Pattern of Sexual Dimorphism of Infants Under Environmental Stresses." Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Amherst, MA, April ll, l974.
"A Prospectus for Research on Human Migration in Andean Countries." Paper presented at a workshop on the Impact of Human Activities on Mountain and Tundra Ecosystems. UNESCO, Man and the Biosphere (MAB) program. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, July 22 24, l974.
"Growth and Development at High Altitude: An Example of Developmental Adaptation." Invited seminar, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November l8, l974.
"Maternal Adaptation and Infant Birthweight at High Altitude." Paper presented (with R. Weinstein) at the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Denver, CO, April 11, l975.
"Impact of Human Activities on Demographic and Genetic Transformation." UNESCO, Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Conference on Project l2. Pennsylvania State University, June l975. Invited discussant on the topic of the effects of migration on human biology, and responsible for formulating and writing a major part of the unauthored workshop report entitled "Interactions of Human Populations and the Environment: A Prospectus on Project l2," January l976.
"Impact of Human Activities on Mountain and Tundra Ecosystems." UNESCO, Man and the Biosphere (MAB) special coordinating team visit to Bolivia and Peru, to discuss the international coordination of MAB Project 6 with government officials and local scientists.
"Biological Basis for Differential Fertility at High Altitudes." Invited seminar, International Population Program, Center for International Studies. Cornell University, November 11, l975.
"The American Family." Discussant: Human Ecology Forum, NYS College of Human Ecology, Hempstead, NY, May 20, l976.
"Adaptación Materna y Viabilidad del Niños en la Altura." Lecture to joint meeting of the Pediatric Society of La Paz and Obstetric and Gynecology Society of La Paz, La Paz, Bolivia, July 29, l976.
"Diferencia en el Crecimiento Física y Desarrollo Motor en la Altura." Invited lecture to the Bolivian Pediatric Society eighth annual postgraduate course entitled "Pathología Infantil de la Altura," Potosí, Bolivia, August 4 8, l976.
"Adaptación Materna a la Altura y Producto del Embarazo." Invited lecture to the Bolivian Pediatric Society eighth annual postgraduate course entitled "Pathología Infantil de la Altura," Potosí, Bolivia, August 4 8, l976.
"Adaptación Materno Infantil en la Altura." Invited seminar to the medical staff and students of the Hospital Metodista, La Paz, Bolivia, August 23, l976.
"Evaluación y Clasificación del Reción Nacido." Invited discussant for the Primero Curso de Actualización en Neonatología, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, Instituto de Maternidad, La Paz, Bolivia, October 4, l976.
"Physical and Psychological Consequences of Low Birth Weight." Presentation in professional workshop entitled, "Nutrition, Growth and Reproduction," Cooperative Extension, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, May l0 ll, l977.
"Maternal Adaptation and Fetal Growth at High Altitude." Paper presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Houston, TX, December 3, l977.
"Maternal Predictors of Fetal Growth at High Altitude." Paper read at the First Faculty Symposium, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, January l7, l978.
"Influences of Climate on Human Growth." Invited participant for a seminar series entitled "Anthropology, Growth and Development," School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM, March l2 l7, l978.
"Prenatal Growth at High Altitudes: Ethnic Variation Related to Differential Maternal Adaptability." Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Toronto, Canada, April l4, l978.
"Maternal Adaptation to Pregnancy at High Altitude." Invited seminar, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, May l8, l978.
"Influencia de la clima en el crecimiento y desarrollo física." Invited lecture, Sociedad de Pediatria de La Paz, La Paz, Bolivia, August l0, l978.
"Influencia de nutrición de fierro en la embarazada en la altura." Invited lecture, Sociedad de Obstétrica y Ginocología de Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, September 9, l978.
"Tasa de hierro en la gestante y crecimiento fetal en La Paz." Invited lecture, Instituto Boliviano de Biología de la Altura and Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia, September l5, l978.
"Childbearing and Infant Health in the High Andes." Invited lecture, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Lancaster Branch, Lancaster, PA, November 2, l978.
"Public Health Problems at High Altitudes." Invited Seminar, Institute for Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX, November 30, l978.
"Functional Aspects of Nutritional Variation: A Human Adaptability Approach to Nutritional Status Assessment." Invited paper presented at the Tenth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, New Delhi, India, December l4, l978.
"Ultrasonic Assessment of Nutritional Status." Paper presented (with P. Holtzapple) at the 3rd Clinical Congress of the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN), Boston, MA, February 2, l979.
"Problems of Assessing Nutritional Status in the South American Andes." Invited Seminar, International Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, March 28, l979.
"Assessment of Nutritional Status at High Altitude." Invited paper presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Council, San Francisco, CA, April 4, l979.
"Iron Nutritional Status and Adaptation to High Altitude." Invited seminar, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 20, l979.
"Anemia y la capacidad para trabajo física en La Paz, Bolivia." Seminar presented to the Instituto Boliviano de Biología de Altura, La Paz, Bolivia, October l8, l979.
"Sources of Error in Ultrasonic Assessment of Nutritional Status." Paper presented to a meeting on Nutritional Assessment and Cancer, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.
"The Role of Nutrition in Human Adaptation to High Altitude in Bolivia." Invited Seminar presented to Latin American Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. March 11, l980.
"Differential Reproductive Performance as Evidence for Adaptation to High Altitude." Invited paper presented at the annual meeting of the Kansas Anthropological Society, Wichita, KS, March 22, 1980.
"Maternal Adaptation and the Newborn Infant at High Altitude." Invited seminar presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY, March 26, l980.
"Adaptation to High Altitude: Some Nutritional Consequences." Graduate Field Seminar in Nutrition, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, March 3l, l980.
"Human Nutrition in the Andes." Symposium on Health, Nutrition and Food Issues as part of a conference, Latin America Today: Heritage and Conquest. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 4, l980.
"Human Adaptability Approach to Nutritional Assessment: A Bolivian Example." Invited paper presented at the Committee for Nutritional Anthropology/American Institute of Nutrition Symposium on Nutritional Anthropology. FASEB, Anaheim, CA, April l4, l980.
"Altitude and Infant Growth Under Favorable Conditions in Bolivia." Invited paper presented at the 49th Annual Meeting on the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Niagara Falls, NY, April l7, l980. (co authored with G. Moreno Black, J. Pabon, G. Pareja, J. Ybarnegaray).
"Un Estudio Longitudinal de Desarrollo del Niños en La Paz y Santa Cruz." Invited lecture presented to the medical staff at the Hospital Obrero and the Pediatric Society of Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia, August 20, l980.
"Maternal Responses to Pregnancy and Fetal and Infant Growth as Indicators of Human Adaptability at High Altitude." Invited paper presented at the CNRS/NSF/UNESCO Seminar on Environmental and Human Problems at High Altitude, College de France, Paris, October l 3, l980.
"Infant Growth at High Altitude." Seminar presented to the Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, October 7, l980.
"Nutritional Anthropology and Biological Adaptation." Invited lecture, Departments of Nutrition and Anthropology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, November l2, l980.
"Nutrition and Physical Anthropology." Invited lecture, Department of Nutrition, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines, January l5, l98l.
"The Development of Research Strategies for Studies of Biological Variation in Living Human Populations." Invited paper presented in a symposium, the History of American Physical Anthropology, at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Detroit, MI, April 24, l98l.
"Interrelación entre Salud, Nutrición y Mortalidad Infantil, y su Característica en las Grandes Alturas de Bolivia y Peru." Invited paper presented in a symposium, Salud y Mortalidad Infantil, Asociación Multidisciplinaria de Investigación y Docencia en Población (AMIDEP), Lima, Peru, August l2, l98l.
"Nutritional Anthropology: Theory and Practice." Invited lecture to the Department of Anthropology, SUNY/Binghamton, November l7, l98l.
"Dietary Aspects of Aging Among Kansas Mennonites." By J. Haas, M. Dubost Belair and J. McGreevy, read at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, CA, December 3, l98l. (Paper read by M. Crawford in absence of the authors.)
"Nutritional Considerations in High Altitude Adaptation," Department of Anatomy, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, May 6, l982.
"Functional Consequences of Physical Growth Retardation as the Basis of Growth Standards." Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Oxford, England, June l, l982.
"Anemia and High Altitude." Graduate Field Seminar in Nutrition; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, September 13, 1982.
"Validation of Various Anthropometric Criteria for Screening Protein Energy Malnutrition in Indonesian Preschoolers." Invited Seminar presented to the Centre for Research and Development in Nutrition, Bogor, Indonesia. November 18, 1982.
"Iron Deficiency, Anemia and High Altitude Adaptation." Invited lecture presented to the Department of Biology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, March 24, l983.
"Placental Morphology, Pathology and Biochemistry Are Not Related to Reduced Birth Weights at High Altitude." Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologist, Indianapolis, IN, April 8, l983.
"Health, Nutrition, High Altitude and Infant Mortality in the Andes." Invited lecture presented at the School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX, April 11, l983.
"The Distribution of Hemoglobin in Normal Subjects at High Altitude in Bolivia." Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Philadelphia, PA, April 12, 1984.
"The Role of Biological Anthropology in the Nutritional Sciences." Invited paper presented at a symposium on Biological Anthropology and the Medical Sciences, 83rd annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, CO, November 16, 1984.
"Functional Consequences of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Tropical High altitude Environments." Invited paper presented at a symposium on Variations in Working Capacity in Tropical Populations, London, England, December 13, 1984.
"Early Growth and Development at High Altitude." Invited lecture, Human Biology Council Annual Meeting, Knoxville, TN, April 10, 1985.
"Mortality and Morbidity Consequences of Variation in Early Child Growth." Invited paper presented at a symposium on The Health and Disease of Populations in Transition at the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Santa Fe, NM, October 19 27, 1985.
"Variation in Early Neonatal Mortality for Different Types of Fetal Growth Retardation." Invited paper presented at a symposium on Childhood Nutrition and Growth and Development at The 55th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Albuquerque, NM, April 11, 1986.
"The Development of a National Food and Nutrition Surveillance System for Indonesia." Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, November 11, 1986.
"Variación de la Mortalidad Neonatal Temprana Según Diferentes Tipos de Retraso en el Desarrollo Fetal." Invited paper presented at a symposium on "Avances de Crecimiento y Desarrollo del Niño." Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 1, 1987.
"The Indonesian Food and Nutrition Surveillance System." Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, November 1, 1987.
"Population Differences in Growth and Its Implication for Nutritional Status Assessment." Invited lecture, Indonesian Nutrition Society, Bogor, Indonesia, April 7, 1988.
"Malnutrition and Work Capacity." Invited lecture, Food Research Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 31, 1988.
"The Use of Child Growth in Assessing Health and Nutritional Status." Invited paper presented at a symposium, "Diet and Disease" at The Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Biology, Oxford, England, July 19, 1988.
"Iron Deficiency and Brain Function." Co organizer, discussant and summarizer of the conference, World Health Organization Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, October 10 12, 1988.
"Patterns of Human Fetal Growth: Consequences and Definition of the Problem." Invited lecture, Graduate Program in Nutrition, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, October 24, 1988.
"Nutritional Surveillance: Experiences from Indonesia." Invited seminar. International Nutrition Program, Department of Nutrition, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, October 24, 1988.
"Patterns of Intrauterine Growth Retardation: Causes and Consequences." Invited lecture, Koret Nutrition Center, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, November 11, 1988.
"Early Childhood Malnutrition and Physical Growth and Performance at Adolescence." Invited seminar, Department of Nutrition, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, January 31, 1989.
"Human adaptation in high altitude populations." Invited seminar, Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, February 15, 1989.
"Nutritional Surveillance in Indonesia." Invited seminar, Food Research Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, February 24, 1989.
"Malnutrition and Physical Work Capacity during Adolescence." Invited lecture, Food Research Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, February 28, 1989.
"Early Childhood Malnutrition, Adolescent Growth and Physical Performance." Invited seminar, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, March 29, 1989.
"Indonesian Nutritional Surveillance System." Invited lecture, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, March 29, 1989.
"Fetal Growth and Neonatal Mortality at High and Low Altitudes in Bolivia." Paper presented at The 58th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, San Diego, CA, April 6, 1989.
"Patterns of Fetal Growth Retardation: Some Causes and Consequences." Invited seminar, International Health Forum, Division of International Health and Public Health Nutrition, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, April 17, 1989.
"Iron Deficiency and Its Consequences in High Altitude Bolivia." Invited seminar, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, May 15, 1989.
"Early Childhood Nutrition and Work Capacity During Adolescence in a Rural Guatemalan Population." Graduate Field Seminar in Nutrition, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, March 12, 1990.
"Early Childhood Nutrition and Adolescent Growth and Development." Invited paper presented at a symposium, "Nutrition and Diet in Human Biology," 15th Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Council, Miami, FL, April 4, 1990.
"Methodological Issues for Research and Development of Gestational Weight Gain Charts". Invited paper presented at conference "Maternal Anthropometry for Prediction of Pregnancy Outcomes," and chair of workshop on "Analysis Strategies of Existing Data Basis on Maternal Anthropometric Indicators." Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, April 23-27, 1990.
"The use of growth as an indicator of nutritional status in preschool children" in a "Seminar on Anthropometry" sponsored by the Ministry of Health, Government of Indonesia, Ciloto, Indonesia, February 4-6, 1991.
"Effects of early nutritional supplementation on skeletal maturation in Guatemalan adolescents"; "Predicting body composition from anthropometry and bioimpedance in chronically undernourished adolescents and young adults"; and "Effects of early nutritional supplementation on physical work capacity in adolescent rural Guatemalans." Invited seminar on the Guatemala follow-up study, Rockefeller Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, August 1-3, 1990.
"Testing the effects of nutrient deficiencies on behavioral development." Invited paper presented at "Workshop on the Relationships between Iodine Deficiency, Selenium Deficiency and Thyroid Hormones", Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, UK, March 25-28, 1991.
"The effects of preschool nutritional supplementation on work capacity in rural Guatemalan adolescents." Invited paper presented at IX Congreso Latinamericano de Nutricion, San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 22-26, 1991.
"Early malnutrition and maximum aerobic power in adolescents." Invited seminar in Anatomy and Physiology Seminar Series, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November 26, 1991.
"Early nutrition and maximum aerobic power in Guatemalan adolescents." Invited seminar. Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, Guatemala City, Guatemala, December 5, 1991.
"Potential mechanisms for the effect of indoor cooking smoke on fetal growth." Invited paper presented at World Health Organization Workshop on "The Impact of Indoor Cooking Smoke on Health," Geneva, Switzerland, February 26-29, 1992.
"Supplementation in early childhood and work capacity in adolescence." Invited paper presented at "Symposium on Nutrition in Early Childhood and Its Long-term Functional Significance." American Institute of Nutrition/Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, April 5-8, 1992.
"Issues in multivariate analysis of human growth data." Invited paper presented at "Workshop on Human Growth," University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, May 11-12, 1992.
"Anthropometric assessment during pregnancy: A WHO collaborative project." Invited seminar, Department of Nutrition, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, November 16, 1992.
"Maternal nutrition and pregnancy outcome: results from a WHO collaborative study." Invited paper presented at a symposium "Recent Developments in the Assessment of Nutritional Status", The Ramon Areces Foundation, Madrid, Spain, February 22-24, 1993.
"Preschool stunting and physical performance in rural adolescent Guatemalans." Paper read at the Experimental Biology '93 meetings, New Orleans, LA, March 30, 1993.
"Skeletal maturation and physical work capacity." Invited paper presented in a "Symposium in Honor of Edward E. Hunt" at the 62nd annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologist, Toronto, Canada, April 15-17, 1993.
"Maternal anthropometry as predictors of risk of poor pregnancy outcome." Invited paper presented at a symposium "Anthropometric references for the year 2000", Experimental Biology '94 meetings, Anaheim, CA, April 26, 1994.
"Early childhood determinants of age at menarche in rural Guatemalans." Paper read for A.D. Khan at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Denver, CO, April 1, 1994.
"The role of nutrition in human capital formation in Guatemala." Lecture presented to the Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November 1, 1994.
"Nutritional status affects age at menarche independent of the effect of skeletal maturation in rural Guatemalan girls". Paper read at the 64th annual meeting if the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Oakland, CA, March 31, 1995.
"Effects of nutrition on physical and cognitive performance: Example of iron". Invited lecture presented in a Conference "Nutrition and Physical Activity to Optimize Performance and Well-Being", International Life Science Institute, Atlanta, GA, April 5, 1995.
"Nutritional influences on work capacity". Invited lecture presented at the Marabou Nutrition Conference "Early Nutrition and Life-Long Health", Stockholm, Sweden, June 17, 1995.
“Maternal and Child Nutrition Research at Cornell University”. Invited respondant, Meinig Symposium on “Maternal And Child Nutrition: National and International Perspectives”. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 27, 1995.
“Early nutritional influences on work capacity”. Invited lecture, Department of Human Biology and Nutrition Science, University of Guelph, Ontaria, Canada. December 1, 1995.
“Distincion de poplaciones anemicas y normales en hombres, mujeres y ninos mediante el uso de analisis de distribucion mixta: lecciones procedentes de estudios realixzados en La Paz, Bolivia.” Invited paper presented in ”Seminario-Taller Interandino sobre Anemias Nutricionales y Valores Hematologicos en la Altura”. Ministerio de Desarrollo Humano, Secretaria Nacional de Salud, La Paz, Bolivia, March 26-29, 1996.
“Malnutrition and work capacity”. Invited lecture, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Cuernavaca, Mexico, January 13, 1997.
“Assessing child growth patterns”. Invited workshop presentation, WIC Association of New York State, Inc., Annual WIC Training Seminars and Teach-in, Rochester, NY, October 27, 1997.
“Uses of maternal anthropometry during pregnancy.” Invited presentation at a workshop “ Vigilancia y Monitoreo del Embarazo”, Pan American Health Organization/Centro Latin Americana de Perinatologia (CLAP), Montevideo, Uruguay, February 16-18, 1998.
“Maternal nutritional status during pregnancy and timing of fetal growth retardation.” Invited lecture, Division de Nutricion & Salud, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Cuernavaca, Mexico, April, 28, 1998.
“Assessing the prevalence of iron deficiency in the population by mixed distribution analysis.” Invited lecture, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Cuernavaca, Mexico, August 12, 1998.
“Malnutrition and physical work capacity.” Invited lecture, consultation symposium on “Food Aid for Development”, U.N. World Food Programme, Rome, Italy, October 23-24, 1998.
“Estimating the iron stores of a sample of Costa Rican infants and a sample of infants from NHANES III survey between the ages of 12 and 23 months.” Paper read at Experimental Biology ’99 meeting, Washington, D.C., April 19, 1999 (with J.H. Cohen).
“Human growth, diet and disease.” Invited presentation (with D. Pelletier and E. Frongillo) at a symposium “New trends in biological anthropology for the 21st century”, Binghamton University, May 27-28, 1999.
“Human feeding trial on the effectiveness of increasing the iron content of rice”. Invited participant at a workshop on Improving Human Nutrition through Agriculture: The Role of International Agriculture Research (sponsored by The International Food Policy Research Institute and The International Rice Research Institute), Los Banos, The Philippines, October 5-7, 1999. (with A. del Mundo)
“Functional consequences of moderate iron deficiency in Mexican women.” Seminar presented to MSc students at the Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Cuernavaca, Mexico, January 19, 2000.
“Comments on iron deficiency anemia in Mexico”. Invited discussant on the First Report of the 1998-99 National Nutrition Survey of Mexico, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Cuernavaca, Mexico, May 8, 2000.
“Critical Review of the evidence that iron deficiency anemia causes reduced work capacity.” Invited participant to conference on Public Health Significance of Iron Deficiency (sponsored by World Health Organization and the International Life Sciences Institute), Belmont, MD, May 21-24, 2000.
“Moderate Iron Deficiency and Physical Performance: Public Health Implications in Developing Countries.” Invited lecture, Department of Community and Preventative Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY, October 13, 2000.
“The Consequences of Iron Deficiency: The Problem is More than Anemia.” The Lydia J. Roberts Memorial Lecture, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, March 14, 2002.
“Iron depletion increases the energy cost of work in non-anemic Mexican women.” Invited paper presented in symposium on Understanding the Linkages Between Nutritional Status, Physical Activity and Productivity at the 71st Annual meeting, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Buffalo, NY, April 12, 2002.
“Testing the Biological Efficacy of a Rice Variety Bred for High Iron Content.” Invited lecture, Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University. March 25, 2003.
“Implementing an Efficacy Study of Biofortified Rice in the Philippines.” Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University. April 9, 2003.
“Iron Deficiency and Work Capacity: From Lab to Field.” Invited Harpur College Dean’s Workshop Lecture, Biomedical Anthropology Program, Binghamton University. April 9, 2003.
“Testing the efficacy of biofortified crops.” Invited lecture at the Bean Planning Meeting of the Biofortification Challenge Program, Naivasha, Kenya, October 2, 2003.
“The nutritional effects of consuming biofortified rice.” Invited lecture at the results presentation to rice feeding-study participants, Manila, the Philippines, October 5, 2003.
“The biological efficacy of consuming rice biofortified with iron.” Invited lecture at the Rice Planning Meeting of the Biofortification Challenge Program, Los Banos, the Philippines, October 6, 2003.
“Deficiencia de Hierro y Funcionalidad Fisica en Mujeres.” Invited lecture, XIII Congreso Latinamericana de Nutricion, Acapulco, Mexico, November 12, 2003
“Iron Deficiency and Physical Performance in Women.” Invited lecture, Shanghai International Symposium for Nutrition and Health, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai, PRC, December 15, 2003.
“Efficacy of Biofortification to Increase Iron Content of Rice: Results from a Human Feeding Trial in the Philippines.” Invited seminar Harvest Plus program, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C., May 11, 2004 (with John Beard).
“Biological efficacy of consuming rice that is biofortified with rice.” Invited lecture, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, PRC, June 3, 2004.
“Results from the Philippine Efficacy Study of Rice Biofortification.” Invited paper, Third Annual, Breeding for Iron-Dense Rice, a Low-Cost, Sustainable Approach to Reducing Iron Deficiency Anemia in Asia. Indonesian Centre for Food Crops Research and Development (ICFORD), Bogor, Indonesia. June 8, 2004.
“Iron Status of Philippine Women After Consuming Rice Bred for High Micronutrient Content.” Graduate Field of Nutrition Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, September 13, 2004.
“Consumption of biofortified rice improves the iron nutritional status of Philippine women.” Invited presentation, American Society of Agronomy (ASA)-Crop Science Society of America (CSSA)-Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) , Seattle WA, November 1, 2004.
“Biological efficacy of consuming rice biofortified with iron.” Invited paper, World Rice Research Conference, Tsukuba, Japan, November 5, 2004.
“Improving the iron content of rice for human nutrition.” Invited keynote address, Celebrating the International Year of Rice, Conference organized by the Asian Development Bank, Manila, The Philippines, November 16, 2004 (presented by proxy)
“Introductory Remarks.” Symposium on Food Fortification in Developing Countries, Annual meeting Society for International Nutrition Research, American Society for Nutritional Sciences (Experimental Biology ‘05), San Diego, CA, April 14, 2005. (Co-organizer with Dennis Miller)
“Effects of iron deficiency on physical performance.” Invited lecture, Committee on Mineral Requirements for Cognitive and Physical Performance of Military Personnel, Food and nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C., June 15, 2005
