Rafael Perez-Escamilla | |
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| Born | Mexico |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BS, chemical engineering, 1982, Universidad Iberoamericana MS, 1985, PhD, 1991, University of California, Davis |
| Thesis | Effect of the maternity ward system on the lactation success of low-income urban Mexican women (1991) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Yale School of Public Health University of Connecticut |
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla Costas is a Mexican-American public health nutritionist. He is a Full professor in the division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and director of the Office of Public Health Practice, the Global Health Concentration, and the Maternal Child Health Promotion program at Yale School of Public Health.
During his tenure at UConn and Yale, Pérez-Escamilla has served as a scientific expert advisor for the World Health Organization, UNICEF FAO, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.