Derrick and Patrice Jelliffe

Derrick Brian Jelliffe ( born January 20, 1921 in Chatham, † March 18, 1992 in Los Angeles ) was an expert in tropical pediatrics and child nutrition.

Life

Derrick Jelliffe was born in 1921 in Chatham, England. He studied at the University of London. Together with his wife Patrice Jelliffe (1920-2007), he lived and worked for 24 years in developing countries. He campaigned for public health and promoted the benefits of breastfeeding. He was Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA). He was appointed to the UCLA School of Public Health, where he established the department of population and family health in 1972. He was founding director of the international health program introduced in 1990 at UCLA and established the first School of Child Health and Pädriatrie in East Africa, at the Makerere University in Uganda. He worked as a consultant to UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the National Academy of Science.

Together with his wife, who worked as a lecturer and researcher at the UCLA School of Public Health, published Jelliffe 22 books that were aimed at nurses and midwives. He wrote hundreds of fonts to developing countries problem and was editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics.

Jelliffe died at the age of 71 of a heart attack.

Awards

Publications (selection )

  • With EF Patrice Jelliffe: Human milk in the modern world: psychosocial, nutritional, and economic Significance. Oxford University Press, New York 1978, ISBN 978-0-192-64919-5.
  • E. F. Patrice Jelliffe: Nutrition and growth. Plenum Press, New York 1979, ISBN 978-0-306-40128-2.
  • With EF Patrice Jelliffe: Adverse effects of foods. Plenum Press, New York 1982, ISBN 978-0-306-40870-0.
  • With Cicely D. Williams, Naomi Baumslag: Mother and child health: delivering the services. Oxford University Press, New York 1994, ISBN 978-0-195-08148-0.

Weblink

  • Literature of and over Derrick B. Jelliffe in the bibliographic database WorldCat
  • Literature of and over Derrick B. Jelliffe in SUDOC catalog ( composite French university libraries )
  • Obituary in the Los Angeles Times
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