JOSE ANTONIO NAJERA, Diplomat, Official. Medical Officer, Department of Malaria Eradication, Regional Office for Americas, World Health Organization/PAHO. Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London; American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; American Mosquito Control Association; Society Española de Ornithologia; National Geography Society.
Education
Colegio Decruly, Madrid, 1942-1948, Bachelor of Arts. University del Litoral, Rosario, Argentina, 1949-1954, Bachelor of Medicine. University of Granada, Spain, 1955, Doctor of Medicine.
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 1956-1957, Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. Escuela Nacional de Sanidad, Madrid, 1957-1958, Public Health. Malaria Training Center, Kingston, Jamaica, 1961.
Spoken languages: Spanish, English, French.
Career
Medical Officer, Department of Malaria Eradication, Regional Office for Americas, World Health Organization/PAHO since 1969. Project(s) Leader, Field Research Team, World Health Organization, Nigeria, 1967-1969. Project(s) Leader, Field Research Team, World Health Organization, Pakistan, India, 1966-1967.
Project(s) Leader, Field Research Team, World Health Organization, Uganda, 1963-1965. Project(s) Leader, Malaria Project(s), World Health Organization, Uganda, 1962-1963. Malariologist, Malaria Project(s), World Health Organization, Ghana, 6163.
Sanitary Officer, Escuela Nacional de Sanidad, Spain, 1959-1960. Consejo Económico Sindical Nacional, Spain, 1958-1959.
Membership
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. American Mosquito Control Association.
Society Española de Ornithologia. National Geography Society.