We are delighted to announce that Mary Penny, Young Lives Principal Investigator in Peru, has been awarded an MBE for services to nutrition and health sciences in Peru and in developing countries in the Queen?s Birthday Honours List 2013: Diplomatic. She was delighted to attend the investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 28 November 2013.
Mary is Director General of the Nutrition Research Institute (IIN) in Peru and leads the Young Lives field work. Her main research interests are infant and child nutrition, health and vaccines. Mary was one of the researchers who first identified the possibility of some of the Young Lives children in Peru recovering from stunting, that led to our strand of work on nutrition and stunting funded by the Gates Foundation and headed by Jere Behrman of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mary has lived and worked in Peru for over 20 years. She has an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and a medical degree from the University of Birmingham Medical School. She is a member of the Royal College of Physicians in London.
Photo: Mary Penny (right) at the first Community Reciprocity fair in Huascar community, San Juan de Lurigancho, LIma. © Young Lives / Lucero Del Castillo Ames
Links and press coverage
Ninos del Milenio - website at http://www.ninosdelmilenio.org/novedades/la-investigadora-penny-de-ninos-del-milenio-recibe-honor-de-la-reina-isabel/ and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ni%C3%B1os-del-Milenio-Estudio-internacional-de-pobreza-infantil/114142795408171 and Twitter at https://twitter.com/NinosdelMilenio
ATV+ Peru TV channel, interview with Mary Penny on 'Mas que Noticias' programme, 27 June 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g01rO5kagZo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/15/queens-birthday-honours-diplomatic?INTCMP=SRCH
https://www.facebook.com/mclcpnacional?hc_location=stream
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Se-busca-un-mill%C3%B3n-de-amigos-para-las-ni%C3%B1as-y-ni%C3%B1os-del-Per%C3%BA/122661576558?hc_location=stream
Selected publications
Inka Barnett, Proochista Ariana, Stavros Petrou, Mary E. Penny, Le Thuc Duc, S. Galab, Tassew Woldehanna, Javier A. Escobal, Emma Plugge, Jo Boyden (2012) 'Cohort Profile: The Young Lives Study', International Journal of Epidemiology
Kirk Dearden, Benjamin Crookston, Hala Madanat, Joshua West, Mary Penny, Santiago Cueto (2012) 'What Difference Can Fathers Make? Early Paternal Absence Compromises Peruvian Children's Growth', Maternal and Child Nutrition
Mary E. Penny, Beatriz Oré, Sofia Madrid (2012) Selection and Induction of Supervisors for Fieldwork Experiences from Young Lives in Peru, Young Lives Technical Note 24,
Benjamin T. Crookston, Kirk A. Dearden, Stephen C. Alder, Christina A. Porucznik, Joseph B. Stanford, Ray M. Merrill, Ty T. Dickerson and Mary E. Penny (2011) 'Impact of Early and Concurrent Stunting on Cognition', Journal of Maternal and Child Nutrition 7.4: 397-409
Silvana Vargas and Mary E. Penny (2010) 'Measuring Food Insecurity and Hunger in Peru: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of an Adapted Version of the USDA?s Food Insecurity and Hunger Module', Public Health Nutrition 13.10: 1488-97
Benjamin T. Crookston, Mary E. Penny, Stephen C. Alder, Ty T. Dickerson, Ray M. Merrill, Joseph B. Stanford, Christina A. Porucznik and Kirk A. Dearden (2010) 'Children Who Recover from Early Stunting and Children Who Are Not Stunted Demonstrate Similar Levels of Cognition', Journal of Nutrition 140.11: 1996-2001
Mary E. Penny, R. Margot Marin, Rosario E. Quispe and Roxana Alarcon (2008) ?Family Access to Animal Source Foods: An Analysis of the Young Lives Project in Peru?, FASEB Journal 22: 1083.12
Bridget Fenn and Mary E. Penny (2008) ?Using the New World Health Organization Growth Standards: Differences from Three Countries?, Journal of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 46.3: 316-321
Mary J. De Silva, Trudy Harpham, Sharon R Huttly, Rosario Bartolini and Mary E. Penny (2007) ?Understanding Sources and Types of Social Capital in Peru?, Community Development Journal 42.1: 19-33
Rosario Bartolini, Mary De Silva, Trudy Harpham, Sharon Huttly, Mary Penny and Tran Tuan (2006) ?Psychometric and Cognitive Validation of a Social Capital Measurement Tool in Peru and Vietnam?, Social Science & Medicine 62.4: 941-953
We are delighted to announce that Mary Penny, Young Lives Principal Investigator in Peru, has been awarded an MBE for services to nutrition and health sciences in Peru and in developing countries in the Queen?s Birthday Honours List 2013: Diplomatic. She was delighted to attend the investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 28 November 2013.
Mary is Director General of the Nutrition Research Institute (IIN) in Peru and leads the Young Lives field work. Her main research interests are infant and child nutrition, health and vaccines. Mary was one of the researchers who first identified the possibility of some of the Young Lives children in Peru recovering from stunting, that led to our strand of work on nutrition and stunting funded by the Gates Foundation and headed by Jere Behrman of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mary has lived and worked in Peru for over 20 years. She has an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and a medical degree from the University of Birmingham Medical School. She is a member of the Royal College of Physicians in London.
Photo: Mary Penny (right) at the first Community Reciprocity fair in Huascar community, San Juan de Lurigancho, LIma. © Young Lives / Lucero Del Castillo Ames
Links and press coverage
Ninos del Milenio - website at http://www.ninosdelmilenio.org/novedades/la-investigadora-penny-de-ninos-del-milenio-recibe-honor-de-la-reina-isabel/ and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ni%C3%B1os-del-Milenio-Estudio-internacional-de-pobreza-infantil/114142795408171 and Twitter at https://twitter.com/NinosdelMilenio
ATV+ Peru TV channel, interview with Mary Penny on 'Mas que Noticias' programme, 27 June 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g01rO5kagZo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/15/queens-birthday-honours-diplomatic?INTCMP=SRCH
https://www.facebook.com/mclcpnacional?hc_location=stream
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Se-busca-un-mill%C3%B3n-de-amigos-para-las-ni%C3%B1as-y-ni%C3%B1os-del-Per%C3%BA/122661576558?hc_location=stream
Selected publications
Inka Barnett, Proochista Ariana, Stavros Petrou, Mary E. Penny, Le Thuc Duc, S. Galab, Tassew Woldehanna, Javier A. Escobal, Emma Plugge, Jo Boyden (2012) 'Cohort Profile: The Young Lives Study', International Journal of Epidemiology
Kirk Dearden, Benjamin Crookston, Hala Madanat, Joshua West, Mary Penny, Santiago Cueto (2012) 'What Difference Can Fathers Make? Early Paternal Absence Compromises Peruvian Children's Growth', Maternal and Child Nutrition
Mary E. Penny, Beatriz Oré, Sofia Madrid (2012) Selection and Induction of Supervisors for Fieldwork Experiences from Young Lives in Peru, Young Lives Technical Note 24,
Benjamin T. Crookston, Kirk A. Dearden, Stephen C. Alder, Christina A. Porucznik, Joseph B. Stanford, Ray M. Merrill, Ty T. Dickerson and Mary E. Penny (2011) 'Impact of Early and Concurrent Stunting on Cognition', Journal of Maternal and Child Nutrition 7.4: 397-409
Silvana Vargas and Mary E. Penny (2010) 'Measuring Food Insecurity and Hunger in Peru: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of an Adapted Version of the USDA?s Food Insecurity and Hunger Module', Public Health Nutrition 13.10: 1488-97
Benjamin T. Crookston, Mary E. Penny, Stephen C. Alder, Ty T. Dickerson, Ray M. Merrill, Joseph B. Stanford, Christina A. Porucznik and Kirk A. Dearden (2010) 'Children Who Recover from Early Stunting and Children Who Are Not Stunted Demonstrate Similar Levels of Cognition', Journal of Nutrition 140.11: 1996-2001
Mary E. Penny, R. Margot Marin, Rosario E. Quispe and Roxana Alarcon (2008) ?Family Access to Animal Source Foods: An Analysis of the Young Lives Project in Peru?, FASEB Journal 22: 1083.12
Bridget Fenn and Mary E. Penny (2008) ?Using the New World Health Organization Growth Standards: Differences from Three Countries?, Journal of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 46.3: 316-321
Mary J. De Silva, Trudy Harpham, Sharon R Huttly, Rosario Bartolini and Mary E. Penny (2007) ?Understanding Sources and Types of Social Capital in Peru?, Community Development Journal 42.1: 19-33
Rosario Bartolini, Mary De Silva, Trudy Harpham, Sharon Huttly, Mary Penny and Tran Tuan (2006) ?Psychometric and Cognitive Validation of a Social Capital Measurement Tool in Peru and Vietnam?, Social Science & Medicine 62.4: 941-953