Alfred Sommer
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1942 –
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Who is Alfred Sommer?
Alfred Sommer is a prominent 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 severely 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, recently, the Copenhagen Consensus list vitamin A supplementation as one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the world.
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- Born
- 1942
United States of America - Education
- Harvard Medical School
- Union College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Employment
- Johns Hopkins University
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on July 23, 2013
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