Background
Jeffery, Geoffrey Marron was born on May 13, 1919 in Dundee, New York, United States. Son of Joseph Ewart and Augusta (Knapp) Jeffery.
Jeffery, Geoffrey Marron was born on May 13, 1919 in Dundee, New York, United States. Son of Joseph Ewart and Augusta (Knapp) Jeffery.
AB, Hobart College, 1940. Master of Arts, Syracuse University, 1942. Doctor of Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1944.
Master in Public Health, Yale University, 1961.
Biological aide health and safety department, Tennessee Valley Authority, 1944;
commissioned officer, United States Public Health Service, 1944;
scientist director, United States Public Health Service, 1960;
technical aid, consultant malaria control in war areas, Tennessee Valley Authority, 1944-1945;
assigned division laboratory services, Communicable Disease Center, 1945-1946;
charge branch laboratory School Tropical Medicine, Communicable Disease Center, San Juan, P.R., 1946-1947;
assistant professor biology, U. Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1947-1948;
charge, Malaria Research Laboratory, National Institutes of Health, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1948-1954;
member of staff, Laboratory Tropical Diseases-Laboratory Parasite Chemotherapy, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Columbia, South Carolina., 1954-1963;
head section epidemiology, Laboratory Tropical Diseases-Laboratory Parasite Chemotherapy, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 1961-1963;
assistant chief, Laboratory Parasite Chemotherapy, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1963-1966;
acting chief, Laboratory Parasite Chemotherapy, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1966;
chief, Laboratory Parasite Chemotherapy, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1967-1969;
chief, Central America Malaria Research Station, San Salvador, El Salvador, 1969-1974;
assistant director, Bureau Tropical Diseases, Center Disease Control, Atlanta, 1974-1975;
director vector biology and control division, Bureau Tropical Diseases, 1975-1981;
assistant director division parasitic diseases, Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, 1982-1984. Member expert advisory panel on malaria World Health Organization, since 1963. Associate member of commission malaria Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 1965-1969, member, 1969-1973.
Delaware International Congress Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Lisbon, 1958, Rio de Janeiro, 1963, Teheran, Iran, 1968. Delaware International Congress Parasitology, Rome, Italy, 1964, Washington, 1969. Delaware International Conference on Protozoology, London, 1965, Latin American Congress Parasitology, Medellin, Colombia, 1973.
Member science group on chemotherapy of malaria World Health Organization, Geneva, 1967, member science group on parasitology, Teheran, 1968. Consultant on statusof malaria in Africa Agency for International Development, 1979. Member science working group on applied field research in malaria World Health Organization, Geneva, 1979, member steering committee, 1981-1986;consultant on malaria United States-China Health Agreement, 1980.
Delegate Asia and Pacific Conference on Malaria, Honolulu, 1985. Temporary advisor meetings World Health Organization, Kuala Lumpur, 1981, Albuquerque, 1982, Nairobi, 1983, Bangkok, 1984. Invited participant concerted action 1st plenary meeting on malaria modelling European Union, Tuebingen, Germany, 1998.
Fellow Royal Society Tropical Medicine (local secretary 1984-1989). Member American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (secretary-treasurer 1961-1967, vice president 1971, president 1975, Bailey K. Ashford award 1959), American Society Parasitologists, Association Southea. Biologists (editor bulletin 1959-1960, executive committee 1962-1966), Tropical Medicine Association Washington, Southea.
Society Parasitologists, South Carolina Academy of Sciences (member council 1960, 62, Jefferson award 1952, 56, 60), Commissioned Officers Association United States Public Health Service, Sigma Xi, Kappa Sigma.
Married Jane Wicker, August 16, 1941. Children: Janet A. Harrison, Thomas W., Sarah V. Houghton, Susan E. Tosh.