Wimpfheimer-Guggenheim Essays
The Wimpfheimer-Guggenheim Fund for International Exchange in Nutrition, Dietetics and Management offers an annual essay competition to promote the exchange of dietetics information throughout the world. The following are the winning essays.
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- 2008: Rosanna Agble
The Ghana Experience: Given the Opportunity, Communities can Improve on their Lives - 2007: Not Awarded
The theme of the 2007 essay was to describe the ADA as the link to global nutrition. - 2006: Prisca N. Nemapare, PhD, CNS
Helping Restore Livelihoods and Build Self Confidence through Sustainable Strengthening of Resource Base of Caregivers in Their Struggle to Improve the Well-Being of Orphans in Zimbabwe - 2005: Carolyn M. Bednar, PhD, RD, LD
Mexican/American Exchange for Cross-Cultural Nutrition Education - 2005: Sunny Ham, PhD, MS
An International Partnership Between the Yellow Window Association in Korea and the Mongolian University in Mongolia: From the Initiation to the Expansion of School Foodservice Programs in Mongolia - 2004: Varsha, PhD, RD
Partnerships in Action: Medical-Nutrition Synergism for Clinical Nutrition/Dietetic Practice and Nutrition Education in the Indian Subcontinent - 2003: Mary Cocke Read, RD, LDN
What are the Typical Dietary Patterns in Aleppo, Syria? A Collaboration - 2002: Christine Lindell Detweiler, MPH, RD
Baby Weighings and Village Folklore Groups
Mobilizing communities to improve the nutritional health of infants and young children in rural Benin, West Africa - 2001: John Krakowski, MA, RD, CDN
Food Rescue: A Safe Place at the Table - 2000: Stacia M. Nordin, RD
Improving Nutrition Through Permaculture in Malawi - 1999: Jennifer Shaw, MPH, RD
Chronic Disease: The New Face of Poverty in Chile - 1999: Teresa M. Kemmer, MS, RD, Major, USA
Field Surveys to Assess the Nutritional Status of Burmese Refugees in Thailand: Basis for Recommendations for Humanitarian Programs - 1998: Sal J. Attanasio, RD, LD
FoodLinks: Promoting More Equitable, Sustainable Trade Between North and South
For the purposes of this paper, the term "North" refers to highly-developed/industrialized countries; the term "South" refers to less-developed/industrialized countries - 1997: Bernadette Lucas, MS, RD
Amesbury for Africa and Esabalu Self Help Group: Sister Villages Ending Hunger Through Local Partnerships - 1996: Ninfa Saturnino Springer, PhD, RD, FADA
Clincial Computer-Assisted Simulation Exercise (CCASE) as a Strategy for Distance Learning in the Philippines - 1995: William D. Evers, PhD, RD
Linking the World’s Nutrition Educators Via Cyberspace - 1995: Amanda Frye, MS, RD
Nutri-Net
Proposed use of a geographic information system (GIS) to link dietitians - 1994: Judith A. Beto, PhD, RD
Beneficial Nutrition Program Through International Alliance (Nutrition Foundation of India) with ADA or ICDA - 1993: Barbara N. Benson, MS, RD
Fish Farming Project in Tanzania: Women's Involvement as Key to Alleviating Hunger
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