John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Professor Dr. David M. Paige, an expert in Community Health and Maternal and Child Nutrition, whose design and implementation of supplemental feeding programs served as a prototype for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) National Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program spoke on the history of the WIC at USDA in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. USDA’s FNS National WIC Program was established 40 years ago to improve the health of pregnant women, infants and children and continues to be one of the nation’s most successful, cost effective nutrition intervention programs. USDA photo by Bob Nichols.Nichols
Posted by USDAgov on 2014-10-22 18:25:01
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