Geraldo Horacio de PAULA SOUZA

Background

PAULA SOUZA, Geraldo Horacio de was born on July 5, 1889 in Itú, Sâo Paulo, Brazil.

Education

Further studies in Berne (Switzerland), 1910-1911, Munich (Germany), 1911. Doctor of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (United States of America), 1920.

Career

Professor; Assistant in chemistry, medical. school, University de Sâo Paulo, 1914-1918, substitute professor, of hygiene, 1918, professor, of public health techniques, school of hygiene and public health, since 1922, director of the school, since 1945. General director of public health, state of Sâo Paulo, 1922-1927. Director, Institute de Higiene, Sâo Paulo, 1925-1945.

Head of epidemic control, UNRRA, 1944-1945. De Paula Souza; graduate, pharmacist, University de Sâo Paulo, 1908. Doctor of Medicine, University do Brasil, 1913.

De Paula Souza; 1 daughter, Ada Celina.

Membership

Member of hygiene section, League of Nations, 1927-1929. Member Brazilian delegation, United Nations Conference, San Francisco, 1945. Member: Society Brasileira de Higiene, Society de Medicina e Cirurgia, Associaçào Paulista de Medicina, American Public Health Association, Society de Geógrafos Brasileiros, American Geographic Society (New York), Delta Omega (Johns Hopkins chapter).

Connections

Father:

Antonio Francisco de Paula Souza

Mother:

Ada H.

Spouse:

Evangelina R