Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Cesar G. Victora (born 1952) is a Brazilian-born epidemiologist, academic and specialist in child health and nutrition.[1] He is an Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the Federal University of Pelotas[2] and holds or has held honorary appointments at the Universities of Harvard,[3] Oxford, and Johns Hopkins, and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.[4]
Victora's research has driven global policies on breastfeeding and early nutrition. His research includes Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI and the COHORTS collaboration.[5][6] Moreover, he was the joint principal investigator of the three Pelotas Birth Cohort Studies conducted in 1982, 1993 and 2004.[1] He was one of the coordinators of the Multicenter Growth Reference Study that led to the development of WHO Child Growth Standards. In 2017, he was awarded the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award.[7]
Victora has served on various international committees for the World Health Organization and UNICEF in the areas of child health and nutrition.[1] He was a founding member and the scientific coordinator of the Countdown to 2015 Initiative that tracked progress of countries toward the Millennium Development Goals.[8] He is one of the leaders of the new Countdown to 2030 initiative for monitoring the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals aimed at reducing maternal and child mortality.[9] In 2024, he was elected to the Royal Society[10] as a foreign member.
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^"The Multi-country Evaluation of Evaluation of Evaluation of IMCI Effectiveness, Cost and Impact" (PDF).
^"Congratulations to Cesar Victora awarded 2017 Gairdner Global Health Award". Archived from the original on 2017-10-23. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
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doi:10.3201/eid2308.151550. PMC 5547795. PMID 28726625. Bryce, Jennifer; Victora, Cesar G; Habicht, Jean-Pierre; Black, Robert E; Scherpbier, Robert W (December...
S2CID 40858786. Wells, Jonathan C. K.; Hallal, Pedro C.; Manning, John T.; Victora, Cesar G. (2006-02-01). "A trade-off between early growth rate and fluctuating...
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