Cesar Victora
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Victora's research has driven global policies on breastfeeding and early nutrition. His research includes Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI and the COHORTS collaboration. Moreover, he was the joint principal investigator of the three Pelotas Birth Cohort Studies conducted in 1982, 1993 and 2004. He was one of the coordinators of the Multicenter Growth Reference Study that led to the development of WHO Child Growth Standards. In 2017, he was awarded the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award.
Victora has served on various international committees for the World Health Organization and UNICEF in the areas of child health and nutrition. He was a founding member and the scientific coordinator of the Countdown to 2015 Initiative that tracked progress of countries toward the Millennium Development Goals. He is one of the leaders of the new Countdown to 2030 initiative for monitoring the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals aimed at reducing maternal and child mortality. In 2024, he was elected to the Royal Society as a foreign member. Provided by Wikipedia
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7by Denise P. Gigante, Márcia Buchweitz, Elizabete Helbig, Ângela S. Almeida, Cora L. Araújo, Nelson A. Neumann, Cesar VictoraGet full text
Published 2007-08-01
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9by Romesh Silva, Agbessi Amouzou, Melinda Munos, Andrew Marsh, Elizabeth Hazel, Cesar Victora, Robert Black, Jennifer Bryce, RMM Working GroupGet full text
Published 2016-01-01
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10by Andrea Wendt, Franciele Hellwig, Ghada E. Saad, Cheikh Faye, Zitha Mokomane, Ties Boerma, Aluisio J.D. Barros, Cesar VictoraGet full text
Published 2021-09-01
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12by Prof Cesar Victora, Prof Marcia C. Castro, Susie Gurzenda, Arnaldo C. Medeiros, Giovanny V.A. França, Prof Aluisio J.D. BarrosGet full text
Published 2021-08-01
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13by Margaret E Kruk, Gavin Yamey, Sonia Y Angell, Alix Beith, Daniel Cotlear, Frederico Guanais, Lisa Jacobs, Helen Saxenian, Cesar Victora, Eric GoosbyGet full text
Published 2016-03-01
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15by Tanya Marchant, Jennifer Bryce, Cesar Victora, Allisyn C Moran, Mariam Claeson, Jennifer Requejo, Agbessi Amouzou, Neff Walker, Ties Boerma 7, John Grove 5Get full text
Published 2016-06-01
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16by Caroline H D Fall, Clive Osmond, Dominic S Haazen, Harshpal Singh Sachdev, Cesar Victora, Reynaldo Martorell, Aryeh D Stein, Linda Adair, Shane Norris, Linda M RichterGet full text
Published 2016-11-01
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17by Carolina A. Carvalho, Antônio A. M. da Silva, César Victora, Marcelo Goldani, Heloísa Bettiol, Erika Barbara Abreu Fonseca Thomaz, Fernando Barros, Bernardo L. Horta, Ana Menezes, Viviane Cardoso, Ricardo Carvalho Cavalli, Iná Santos, Rosângela F. L. Batista, Vanda Maria Simões, Marco Barbieri, Aluisio BarrosGet full text
Published 2020-02-01
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18by Rajiv Bahl Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Jose Martines, Nita Bhandari, Zrinka Biloglav, Karen Edmond, Sharad Iyengar, Michael Kramer, Joy E. Lawn, D. S. Manandhar, Rintaro Mori, Kathleen M. Rasmussen, H. P. S. Sachdev, Nalini Singhal, Mark Tomlinson, Cesar Victora, Anthony F. Williams, Kit Yee Chan, Igor RudanGet full text
Published 2012-06-01
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19by Prof. Caroline H D Fall, DM, Harshpal Singh Sachdev, MD, Clive Osmond, PhD, Maria Clara Restrepo-Mendez, PhD, Cesar Victora, MD, Reynaldo Martorell, PhD, Aryeh D Stein, PhD, Shikha Sinha, BSc, Nikhil Tandon, MD, Linda Adair, PhD, Isabelita Bas, MHSS, Shane Norris, PhD, Linda M Richter, PhDGet full text
Published 2015-07-01
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20by José Villar, Michelle Fernandes, Manorama Purwar, Eleonora Staines-Urias, Paola Di Nicola, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Roseline Ochieng, Fernando Barros, Elaine Albernaz, Cesar Victora, Naina Kunnawar, Sophie Temple, Francesca Giuliani, Tamsin Sandells, Maria Carvalho, Eric Ohuma, Yasmin Jaffer, Alison Noble, Michael Gravett, Ruyan Pang, Ann Lambert, Enrico Bertino, Aris Papageorghiou, Cutberto Garza, Alan Stein, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Stephen KennedyGet full text
Published 2019-01-01
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