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New Public Health Institute
The School of Public Health
is announcing today the creation of the Sight and Life Research
Institute to carry out research into vitamin-related nutritional
problems that constitute major health hazards for tens of
millions of people--especially children--around the world. F.
Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., one of the world's leading health care
companies and a pioneer in vitamin synthesis and research, joins
the school in establishing the institute, and has pledged $3
million to support its work.
Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of
all child deaths worldwide, a proportion unmatched by any
infectious disease since the Black Death. Of the nearly 12
million children under 5 who die each year in developing
countries from diseases that are in large part preventable, more
than 6 million of those deaths, or 55 percent, are either
directly or indirectly attributable to malnutrition. The new
institute will direct its research toward solving critical
vitamin-related nutritional problems facing undernourished
populations and will work to shape policies and programs that
effectively prevent vitamin deficiencies around the world. The
potential for preventing death and disease from malnutrition and
vitamin deficiency is tremendous. In a recent trial in Nepal,
vitamin A supplementation reduced maternal mortality by 44
percent.
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Arts Center to become a
reality
The university will break ground for its new student arts
center on the Homewood campus at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10,
on a site just southeast of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library.
The event was planned to coincide with several
major university events, including the regularly scheduled board
of trustees meeting, the annual Alumni Council meeting and the
annual associates dinner, which celebrates the many friends who
have contributed to the Johns Hopkins
Initiative campaign.
The 50,000-square-foot, $17 million student
center is scheduled to open in the fall of 2000 as a
multifunctional facility offering rehearsal, meeting, studio and
gathering space for student groups. It also will house
performance space and a theater for events open to both students
and the community.
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