Background
ALVARADO, Carlos Alberto was born on November 4, 1904 in Jujuy, Argentina.
ALVARADO, Carlos Alberto was born on November 4, 1904 in Jujuy, Argentina.
Educated medical. school, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1923-1928. Further studies in Higher School of Malariology, Rome, 1929, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, England, 1930. Dr. honoris causa, University of Portland (Oregon, United States of America), 1945.
Professor; head of yellow fever prevention, national department, of hygiene, 1932-1933. Director general of malaria, Jujuy, Í933-35, 1937-1943, secretary general of department, 1935-1937, acting president, 1936. Head of yellow fever prevention on the coast, 1937-1938.
Head, northern division of plague prevention, 1937-1945. Delegate, 3d International Congress of Malaria and Tropical Diseases, Amsterdam, 1938, 5th Pan American Conference of National Dirs. of Health, Washington, 1944, 1st Inter-American Medical Congress, Rio de Janeiro, 1946. Lecturer, medical. school, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, since 1939.
Associate professor, of hygiene, University Nacional de Tucumán, since 1941. Director general of malaria, national bureau of public health, 1943-1945, head of malaria and regional endemic diseases division, since 1945. Alvarado and María Tránsito Romano.
Member commission of five to plan reorganization of national department, of hygiene, 1943. Member: Colegio Medico de Tucumán (president), Society Científica Argentina, Asociación Argentina para el Progreso de la Ciencia, Pan American Sanitary Bureau (member malaria commission), American Public Health Association, Jockev Club, Tucumán Lawn Tennis Club, Club de Natación y Gimnasia, Rotary. Fellow, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London.