Editor's Note

  • Demetre Labadarios Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)

Abstract

The multidimensionality of poverty and its implications, in broad terms, remains one of the most intensely debated and difficult to address issue worldwide. In relation to nutritional status, poverty is known to impact adversely on child growth and development, and its consequences early in life do not only include the inability to prevent malnutrition, but also to address its reversal, to the extent possible.

Author Biography

Demetre Labadarios, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
Prof Labadarios is the Executive Director of the Human Sciences Research Council, Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation Research programme. He is author/co-author of more than 220 scientific publications and has also co-authored the books "Pocket Manual of Clinical Nutrition" and Clinical Nutrition: Early intervention?” He has been awarded the Poliomyelitis Research Prize, the WF Rabe Award for exceptional achievement in Medicine, the F D du Toit van Zijl Research Medallion of the University of Stellenbosch, and the Albert Strating prize for Preventive Medicine of the South African Academy of Science and Arts. Prof Labadarios is an elected Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, Honorary Associate Professor in the University of Crete, Greece, and an elected member of the JM Kinney International Award Committee in Nutrition Research. He is currently elected chairman of the Information Technology for the Advancement of Nutrition in Africa (ITANA), a scientific society, which aims to establish networks among African nutrition professionals. He is the African Editor of "Nutrition: The International Journal of Nutritional Sciences" and serves as a reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed journals.
How to Cite
Labadarios, D. (1). Editor’s Note. South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 25(1), 5. Retrieved from http://sajcn.co.za/index.php/SAJCN/article/view/631
Issue
Vol 25 No 1 (2012)
Section
Editor's Note
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