Hunger: The Silent Killer Affecting Half a Billion

It was in Africa in the 1970s that the reality of child hunger, malnutrition, and starvation confronted us both and shaped our lives. One of us was nearly a doctor working in northern Nigeria, a young man on a global health mission during a medical school elective, catalyzing a lifetime commitment to nutritional innovations.

The other was a teenage girl, living in a Northern Ugandan famine zone, with her family who ran a feeding program for malnourished children and a long term development program; a childhood that inspired her entry into pediatric medicine and who is now addressing global newborn health and survival.