Conversations with Laureates

Papers By Alfred Sommer

Papers by Dr. Alfred Sommer

East Bengal Cyclone of November 1970 - Epidemiological Approach to Disaster Assessment, 1970

The 1972 Smallpox Outbreak in Khulna Municipality, Bangladesh - II Effectiveness of Surveillance and Containment in Urban Epidemic Control, 1972

Nutritional Status and Mortality: A Prospective Validation of The QUAC Stick, 1975

Increased Mortality In Children with Mild Vitamin A Deficiency, 1983

Impact of Vitamin A Supplementation on Childhood Mortality, 1986

Vitamin A Supplements and Mortality Related to Measles: A Randomised Clinical Trial, 1987

On Estimating Efficancy From Clinical Trials, 1989

Cost Effectiveness of Current Approaches to the Control of Retinopathy in Type I Diabetics, 1989

Racial Differences in the Cause-Specific Prevalence of Blindness in East Baltimore, 1991

Vitamin A Deficiency and its Consequences, A Field Guide, 3rd Edition (Entire Book), 1995

Vitamin A Deficiency and its Consequences, A Field Guide, 3rd Edition (Color Plates Only), 1995

Vitamin A Deficiency and its Consequences, A Field Guide, 3rd Edition (Field Forms Only), 1995

Clinical Research and the Human Condition: Moving from Observation to Practice, 1997

Double Blind, Cluster Randomised Trial of Low Dose Supplementation with Vitamin A or ß Carotene on Mortality Related to Pregnancy in Nepal, 1999

Health, Medicine, and Ophthalmology: Facing the Facts and Paying the Piper, LVI Edward Jackson Memorial Lecture, 1999

Other Work by Dr. Sommer

A Bridge Too Near, 1995

Prevention of Blindness and Priorities for the Future, 2001

Golden Rice, Vitamin A Deficiency Disorders: Origins of the problem and Approaches to Its Control, 2001

Papers about Dr. Sommer's Work

Never Let Sleeping Dogmas Lie, 1997

Sight and Life Slides on Vitamin A Deficiency Disorders (VADD) by Donald S. McLaren and Martin Frigg, 1998

Helen Keller International Nutrition bulletin, Vol.2, Issue 2, November 2000, The Need for Increasing Coverage of Vitamin A Capsule Program to Reduce Vitamin A Deficiency Among Young Children in Cambodia, 2000