Dr. Irwin H. Rosenberg Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA

Dr. Irwin Rosenberg, the Jean Mayer University Professor of Nutrition at Tufts University, earned his M.D. at Harvard Medical School in 1959. Dr. Rosenberg has been on the INF Board since 1988. He succeeded Nevin Scrimshaw, founding editor of the FNB, as Editor-in-Chief in 1998.

Throughout his career, Dr. Rosenberg has participated in many national and international nutrition policy efforts. He was Chair of the Food and Nutrition Board and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1994. Since joining Tufts, Dr. Rosenberg served as Dean of the Friedman School for nine years and Director of the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) for 15 years.

Currently, in addition to his role with the FNB, Dr. Rosenberg directs the Nutrition and Neurocognition Laboratory at the HNRCA. Dr. Rosenberg’s research interests include nutrition and aging; folate and micronutrient malnutrition as a global problem; relationship between homocysteine, B vitamin nutriture, vascular disease and age-related cognitive decline.