Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas
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| Head and shoulders photo of Juan Pablo Peña-RosasFile:Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas.jpg Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas at the World Health Organization in July 2020 | |
| Born | Juan Pablo Peña Rosas November 20, 1964 Judibana, Venezuela. |
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| 👩 Spouse(s) | Leonel Andres Garcia Mendez Partnership and marriage (1997-2011). Currently married to Heber Gomez Malave (2013-present) |
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| 🌐 Website | who.int/nutrition |
Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas born November 20, 1964, is a Venezuelan medical doctor, epidemiologist and international civil servant, who has served as an expert of nutrition for health and development.[1] at the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2008. He currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland. He has been recognized for his work in evidence-informed procedures for guideline development in nutrition in global health.[2][3] He has led the commissioning and preparation of systematic reviews of nutrition interventions for health and development and implemented innovative methods such as qualitative reviews, mathematical modelling, overviews of reviews and diagnostic tests accuracy reviews.[4] He has led to the publication of more than 60 WHO science-informed guidelines in nutrition-related topics and contributed to building the evidence base of many nutrition interventions.[5]
Background[edit]
He was born on November 20, 1964, in Judibana, Falcón, in Venezuela. Son of obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Francisco Jesus Peña Godoy and auxiliary nurse and housewife, Ms Teresa Rosas. Juan has six siblings Gloria del Valle, Myriam Elvira, Victor Manuel, Edgar Francisco, Lyliam Cristina y Francis Teresa, and has lived on and off in Venezuela ー as well as in France, Puerto Rico, Aruba, Mexico, Uzbekistan, the United States of America and Switzerland.
After several professional appointments in the private sector[Ref-6], academia[6] and government health agencies[Ref-8], he was appointed as Coordinator of Micronutrients in the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development of the World Health Organization in 2008[Ref-9] and as Coordinator of Evidence and Programme Guidance in the same Department from 2012-2020.
Education[edit]
Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas followed university studies in medicine at the Medicine Faculty of the Universidad Central de Venezuela,[7] in Caracas. After getting his medical degree at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, he received a Magna Cum Laude Master of Public Health Nutrition from the University of Puerto Rico[8] medical campus, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico and a PhD in Epidemiology and Human Nutrition at Cornell University[9], in the United States of America. He worked on his doctoral dissertation [10] with advisor Dr Malden Nesheim[11] in Ithaca, and Professor David Crompton at the University of Glasgow, Scotland[Ref-10].
In Venezuela, he worked with Dr Miguel Layrisse and Dr Maria Nieves Garcia-Casal at the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research in Altos de Pipe, Miranda state during his fieldwork in 1995-1997 [Ref-11] and Dr JV Scorza at Universidad de Los Andes, in Trujillo, Trujillo state, during the same years[Ref-12].
Career[edit]
He worked as Manager of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs for Kellogg Company, in charge of the Latin American operations from 1997 to 2002[Ref-13]. He also was a visiting scientist at the Children Hospital Research Institute in Oakland, California, the USA[Ref-14]. He then worked as a specialist for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA until 2008[Ref-15], when he moved to Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr Peña-Rosas is Professor (Adjunct) at Rollins School of Global Health, Emory University in Atlanta, the USA since 2011[Ref-16] and Professor (Adjunct) in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, the USA since October 2017[Ref-17]. Juan currently works as Head, Global Initiatives, Office of the Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety. He has served senior-level positions at the World Health Organization in Geneva since July 2008[Ref-9].
Achievements[edit]
Dr Peña-Rosas established the annual WHO/Cochrane/Cornell summer institute for systematic reviews in nutrition for global policy-making[Ref-18] in collaboration with leaders in these organisations since 2014 and is a Cochrane Nutrition founder[Ref-19]. He developed the WHO electronic Library of Evidence of Nutrition Actions (ELENA) in collaboration with various agencies[Ref-20]. He developed the upgrade and expansion of the WHO Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System (VMNIS), the largest global database of vitamin and mineral status of human nutrition[Ref-21].
He is an affiliate board member of the Cochrane US Network[Ref-22], a founding member of The Society for Implementation Science in Nutrition[Ref-23], member of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Working Group[Ref-24], Latin American Society of Nutrition (SLAN)[Ref-25] and the American Society of Nutrition[Ref-26]. He has been guest editor of various issues of Annals of New York Academy of Sciences[Ref-27] and Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrition[12][13].
Honours and awards[edit]
He was a recipient of the Fellow, Esta and Lewis Ress/ Ethel B. Waring Fellowship in 1994-1995[Ref-29]. Elected representative, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Cornell University in 1995[Ref-30] and president of the Venezuelan Students & Scholars Association, Cornell University 1995-1996[Ref-31].
- He was awarded a fellowship from United Nations University in 1993-1994[Ref-32].
- He was included in the Dean’s List at the University of Puerto Rico in 1993[Ref-33].
- In 2004 the Latin American Association of Nutritionists and Dietitians awarded him an Achievement Award for his contributions to food and dietetics in the region[Ref-34].
- In 2008, he and his team received the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) & ATSDR Honor Awards (group), Excellence in Flour Fortification Initiative[Ref-35].
- In May 2012 he received an award as outstanding graduate alumni from the University of Puerto Rico[Ref-36].
- His work with the WHO/CDC births defects surveillance toolkit received recognition by the British Medical Association in 2015[Ref-37].
- Also, from the US CDC and Prevention & Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s Honor Award of Excellence in Surveillance and Health Monitoring in 2016[Ref-38].
References[edit]
- ↑ WHO, Coordinator, Evidence and Programme Guidance (EPG). "Coordinator, Evidence and Programme Guidance (EPG) and WHO".
- ↑ Award CDC Birth Defects Surveillance Toolkit, Trends in Wheat-Flour Fortification with Folic Acid and Iron. "CDC Recognition".
- ↑ Medical book in the category of public health 2015, BMA. "BMA highly commended medical book in the category of public health 2015".
- ↑ Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, MICRONUTRIENTS 2010 - 2011. "MICRONUTRIENTS" (PDF).
- ↑ Department of Nutrition for Health and Development: evidence and programme guidance, 2012-2013 biennium report. "World Health Organization. (2014)".
- ↑ Rollins School of Public Health, Adjunct or Visiting, Global Health. "Adjunct Professor of Rollins School of Public Health".
- ↑ Medicine UCV, Faculty. "Medicine Faculty of the UCV".
- ↑ Puerto Rico, University. "University of Puerto Rico".
- ↑ Cornell, University. "Cornell University".
- ↑ Cornell University, Doctoral Dissertation. "Effect of weekly and twice-weekly iron supplementation on maternal iron status during pregnancy in areas endemic of Helminthic infections".
- ↑ Cornell University, Professor Emeritus, Division of Nutritional Sciences. "Prof. Malden Nesheim".
- ↑ Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición, Volumen 65, Suplemento 1. "Genómica y política pública: concentraciones de folato eritrocitario en mujeres en edad reproductiva".
- ↑ Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición, Volumen 65, Suplemento 1. "Primer programa multidisciplinario de formación sobre políticas globales de nutrición para el desarrollo sostenible".
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