Union College (B.S., 1963) Harvard Medical School (M.D., 1967) Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (M.H.S., 1973)
Known for
Vitamin A deficiency Blindness prevention
Awards
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Fries Prize for Improving Health (2008) American Academy of Ophthalmology Laureate (2011) Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research (2005) National Academy of Sciences (2001) Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1997) National Academy of Medicine (1992)
Scientific career
Fields
Ophthalmology Epidemiology International Health
Alfred (Al) Sommer (born October 2, 1942) 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 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.[1] The World Bank and the Copenhagen Consensus list vitamin A supplementation as one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the world.[2][3]
^Sommer, A; Tarwotjo, I; Djunaedi, E; West, KP Jr; Loeden, AA; Tilden, R; Mele, L (1986). "Impact of vitamin A supplementation on childhood mortality. A randomised controlled community trial". Lancet. 24 (8491): 1169–1173. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(86)91157-8. PMID 2871418. S2CID 8874283.
^World Development Report 1993. World Bank, 1993.
^Copenhagen Consensus 2008. http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/Default.aspx?ID=953 Accessed on 2009-03-19.
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