SUMMARY
Dr. Ziauddin
Hyder used to coordinate the Public Health Nutrition Research Unit at BRAC
for over 10 years. BRAC, one of the largest indigenous NGOs in the world, works
on poverty alleviation, empowerment of women, education, environment, nutrition
and public health issues (www.brac.net). He also worked with the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to implement the Food Insecurity
and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems (FIVIMS) in the South and
South-East Asian Region (www.fivims.net). By training he is a Medical Doctor with
Masters in Food and Nutrition Planning and PhD in Epidemiology and Public
Health. His main areas of work started
in research and program development in areas related to food security and applied
nutrition and then gradually moved into issues of micronutrient deficiencies in
women and children. He is now working at
the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto to scale up the micronutrient Sprinkles intervention…