Alfred Sommer
American ophthalmologist · United States · On the map · Doctors · Born 1942 · age 84
Alfred (Al) Sommer is an American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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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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Elsie WiddowsonBoth received Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutrition Research
Basil HetzelBoth received Pollin Prize for Pediatric ResearchCharles R. ScriverBoth received Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research
Scott M. GrundyBoth received Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutrition Research
Walter C. WillettBoth received Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutrition ResearchEmil J. Freireich Jr.Both received Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research