They are most known for their seminal book, Human Milk in the Modern World, published by Oxford University Press in 1978, and for editing the multi-volume Advances in International Maternal and Child Health.
[2] They lived and worked in England, Africa, India, the Caribbean and settled in Los Angeles, where he held the Chair in Public Health and Paediatrics at the University of California from 1972 to 1990.
The Jelliffes' field observations triggered the so-called Baby Killers scandal[5] and the Nestlé boycott.
Professor Jelliffe subsequently testified to a subcommittee of the US Senate organized by Teddy Kennedy in 1978.
[8] In 1982, Derrick Jelliffe received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine at Uppsala University, Sweden.