John Mason PhD

Dr. Mason is currently Professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.He has received PhD degree from University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. his research interests are Public nutrition, policy and program planning, assessment and surveillance.

John Mason, PhD, Professor in the Department of International Health and Development, works to improve nutrition, particularly of children and women, in developing countries. Starting in nutritional biochemistry, he moved on to research on child health and nutrition in E and W Africa, before joining the Food and Agricultural Organization where he worked on nutritional surveillance and program planning. He then became Director of the Cornell Nutritional Surveillance Program, conducting research and training both in Cornell and overseas; at the same time he co-directed a joint program with UNICEF to promote nutrition in Eastern and Southern Africa. Returning to the UN in 1986, he was Technical Secretary of the UN coordinating committee on nutrition (ACC/SCN) based in WHO, where he started the series of UN Reports on the World Nutrition Situation, the Refugee Nutrition Information System, and supervised 15 UN publications on nutrition policy issues. Joining Tulane in 1996, his interests are currently focused on nutrition policy development (notably in Asia, with UNICEF and ADB); on approaches to sustaining community-based programs for nutrition improvement; and micronutrient deficiencies (currently vitamin A and iodine), in terms of epidemiology and prevention. He is the focal point for an inter-university consortium developing the concepts and practice of public nutrition. Prof. Mason teaches Public Nutrition, Policies and Programs (INHL 613); Public Nutrition, Assessment and Advanced Analysis (INHL 709); and Public Nutrition and Health in Complex Emergencies (INHL 615) and co-teaches the core INHL 605.

His publications are as follows;
Shrimpton R, Mason J. What is more important? Measuring trends in child undernutrition correctly or interpreting them adequately?. Pathog Glob Health. 2012 Aug;106(4):217.
Mason JB, White JM, Heron L, Carter J, Wilkinson C, Spiegel P. Child acute malnutrition and mortality in populations affected by displacement in the Horn of Africa, 1997-2009. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2012 Mar;9(3):791-806. Epub 2012 Mar 6.
Saldanha LS, Buback L, White JM, Mulugeta A, Mariam SG, Roba AC, Abebe H, Mason JB. Policies and program implementation experience to improve maternal nutrition in Ethiopia. Food Nutr Bull. 2012 Jun;33(2 Suppl):S27-50.
Mason JB, Saldanha LS, Ramakrishnan U, Lowe A, Noznesky EA, Girard AW, McFarland DA, Martorell R. Opportunities for improving maternal nutrition and birth outcomes: synthesis of country experiences. Food Nutr Bull. 2012 Jun;33(2 Suppl):S104-37.
Mason JB, White JM, Heron L, Carter J, Wilkinson C, Spiegel P. “Child acute malnutrition and mortality in opulations affected by displacement in the horn of Africa, 1997-2009. Int J Environ Res Public Health”. 2012 Mar;9(3):791-806. Epub 2012 Mar 6.
J Mason, A Bailes, M Beda-Andourou, N Copeland, T Curtis, M Deitchler, L Foster, M Hensley, P Horjus, C Johnson, A Mendez, M Munoz, J Rivers, and G Vance. Recent trends in malnutrition in developing regions: vitamin A deficiency, anemia, iodine deficiency, and child underweight. Fd Nutr Bull, 26(1):57-163, March 2005.
JBMason, DSanders, PMusgrove, Soekirman, RGalloway. Community Health and Nutrition Programs. Chapter 56 in 'Disease Control Priorities Project' OUP/World Bank. Eds: Jameson D, Measham A, Bremer J, Musgrove P. (2006).