December 19, 2001: Notebook Photo by ricardo barros Consistent
with her sense of work to be done, Ingrid Le Roux *01 took three
months to go from Princeton student to faculty member. In June
she received a masters in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson
School; in September she became a lecturer in public and
international affairs and began to lead a WWS junior task force,
Child Health and Nutrition in Developing Countries. Having spent
21 years managing Philani, an independent nonprofit healthcare
organization serving 500,000 people in squatter communities near
Cape Town, South Africa, Le Roux has become an expert in the
health and nutrition of children living, often in extreme
poverty, in the developing world. Despite her habit of speaking
quietly, she conveys purposefulness, both as physician and
teacher. The underlying cause in half of the 12 million
childhood deaths in the world today is malnutrition. In Philanis
target communities, one in four children suffers from chronic
malnutrition and one in 10 fr