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McNaughton, Jean Wise (1919 - 2003) |
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| Born: 8 August 1919 Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia. Died: 14 April 2003. | ||
| Jean Wise McNaughton worked for the Blood Bank after graduating from the University of Melbourne. She later studied the effect of World War II on the diet of Australians with the Commonwealth Department of Health. Working with the nutritional division of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) McNaughton was based in Washington and later Rome. During the 1960s she returned to Melbourne and gained a Diploma of Dietetics and then a PhD at the University of Melbourne. She returned to the FAOs nutrition division and travelled widely as a consultant, lecturer and facilitator. |
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