Alfred Sommer
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Alfred (Al) Sommer is an American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Elsie WiddowsonAlso won Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutrition Research
Basil HetzelAlso won Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research
Richard A. CashAlso won Prince Mahidol AwardKatharine ParkAlso won Dan David Prize
Lynne E. MaquatAlso won Warren Alpert Foundation Prize
Myrna M. WeissmanAlso won Fellow of the New York Academy of MedicineAbout this person
Alfred (Al) Sommer is an American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research on vitamin A in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that dosing even mildly vitamin A deficient children with an inexpensive, large dose vitamin A capsule twice a year reduces child mortality by as much as 34 percent. The World Bank and the Copenhagen Consensus list vitamin A supplementation as one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the world.
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