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Home Background Initiators Steering Committee Members Advisors Affiliated Institutions News Activities Links to other sites Coordinator's Report Photo Album Membership Application Form	Frederick K. E. Grant Membership Status: Full Member Home Country: Ghana Institution: Emory University Current Address: Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Emory University 1462 Clifton Road, Suite 314, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. Phone: (+1) 404 4325174 (Cell) E-mail: fkgrant@emory.edu ebogrant5@yahoo.com ebogrant5@hotmail.com Education MPhil (Nutrition) PhD candidate (Nutrition & Health Sciences): 2006 - present. Research Interests · Nutrition and Adolescent pregnancy outcomes · Nutrition and Infection · Maternal and infant/child nutrition Experience Poster presentations at the Second International Meeting of the Micronutrient Forum Beijing, China. 12-15 May, 2009. Teaching Associate, Emory University. Jan-June 2008. Research Assistant, Flour Fortification Initiative (FFI), Emory University. Feb.-Nov 2008 Participated in the 4^th African Nutrition Leadership Programme (ANLP), (Potchefstroom, South Africa), Nov. 2005. Attended and presented a poster at the 18^th International Congress of Nutrition from 19-23 September 2005, ICC, Durban South Africa. Attended and made a poster presentation at the 24^th Biennial Conference of the Ghana Science Association in Accra from 1^st - 4^th August 2005. Senior Research Assistant – Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), University of Ghana. 2001-2006 October 2004: Field Supervisor for the project in the Central Region, on “Evaluation of Malaria Dialogue Education in Ghana” carried out by NMIMR, Legon, for FREEDOM FROM HUNGER (FFH), USA, October-November, 2004. August 2004: Team Leader, Consulting to a Unilever-funded project carried out by the Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Legon, on “Breakfast Habits Among Primary Schoolchildren in the Greater Accra Region”. A report was submitted to the PI. May 2004: Team Leader, collection of nutritional and anthropometric data in Asesewa and Bawjiase Programme Areas of Plan Ghana to determine nutritional status of women and children under-five who are members of the Credit with Education (CwE) Association. August 2003: Field Supervisor for the project in the Central Region of Ghana, on “Food Security as a Representative of Poverty measurement” carried out by NMIMR, Legon, for FREEDOM FROM HUNGER (FFH), USA, August-October, 2003. June - July 2003: Team Member Consulting to a USAID-funded project on Food Consumption Survey in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana with particular focus on the use of cooking oil, flour, bullion cubes, and sugar, which have been targeted as potential vehicles for fortification to prevent micronutrient Deficiencies in Ghana. August 2001 – August 2002: Research Assistant, Nutrition Unit, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon. Dissertations/Reports “Prevalence of anemia among adolescent pregnant females in the third trimester”. (Awaiting publication in the Ghana Medical Journal). “Infant feeding practices of HIV-Positive mothers in the Manya Krobo area of Ghana”. Presented at the National AIDS Conference organised by the Ghana AIDS Commission in 2004.
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