It is, as a whole, a very powerful system of lobbying, of capturing scientists, of capturing health care providers and, at the end of the day, capturing families themselves with their products by really exploiting the fears of families and parents during a very vulnerable psychoemotional time.

Rafael Perez-Escamilla

Rafael Pérez-Escamilla Costas is a Mexican-American public health nutritionist. He is a Full professor in the division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and director of the Office of Public Health Practice, the Global Health Concentration, and the Maternal Child Health Promotion program at Yale School of Public Health. During his tenure at UConn and Yale, Pérez-Escamilla has served as a scientific expert advisor for the World Health Organization, UNICEF FAO, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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