Fields of Expertise
Biography
Professor of Department of Social and Applied Nutrition, Institute of Nutrition, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Coordinator of the Food & Nutrition Science History Lab. Past work explored League of Nations–FAO-Brazil relationships in nutrition, 1927-1964. Present interests: history of nutrition at the League of Nations; history of nutrition at the FAO; tensions between international nutrition and colonial/tropical nutrition; Latin American representatives in international nutrition debates; comparative history of national-international interrelationships in food science (physiologic effects of coffe).
Bibliography
Bizzo, MLG. League of Nations–FAO-Brazil relationships in nutrition, 1932-1964 (PhD dissertation. http://www.fiocruz.br/ppghcs/media/tese_maria_leticia.pdf)
Bizzo, MLG; Lima, NT. The national civilizing project of the National Institute of Nutrition of the University of Brazil (1946-1960). Perspectivas, São Paulo, vol. 37, pp. 191-209, Jan./Jun. 2010. http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/perspectivas/article/view/3558/3327
Bizzo, MLG. Political action and social thought in Josué de Castro. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi - Ciências Humanas, Belém, vol.4, n.3, pp. 401-420, Sept./Dec.2009. http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/perspectivas/article/view/3558/3327
Bizzo, MLG. Diffusion of science, communication, and health. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, vol.18 n.1, pp. 307-314. Jan./Feb. 2002. http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0102-311X2002000100031&script=sci_arttext
Bizzo, MLG.; Leder, L. Nutrition education in the national curricular parameters for elementary schooling. Revista de Nutrição, Campinas, vol. 18, n. 5, pp. 661-667, Sept./Oct. 2005. http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rn/v18n5/a09v18n5.pdf
Bizzo, MLG. The “rice-eaters” in colonial and international nutrition science (1935-1950) (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/workshops/en/MPRG_Lipphardt-2012/mainColumnParagraphs/04/document/2012_ColonialSubjects-Workshop_MPRG-Lipphardt.pdf
Bizzo, MLG. ‘Latin America and international nutrition : integrative channels in the interwar period’ (Université de Genève. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/century/download/sdnlatam_prg.pdf)