Education
Manuel Carballo is from Gibraltar and studied in the United Kingdom.
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He has worked with the World Health Organization in a number of countries. In the 1980s he was responsible for leading World Health Organization"s international collaborative study on breast feeding and the impact of breast-milk substitutes on infant and maternal health. He then organised the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes which today guides the infant food industry"s role in this domain of health.
In 1986 he was one of the three-person team chosen to set up the World Health Organization Global Programme on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Grade Point Average) and remained with Grade Point Average until 1992 as Chief of Behavioural Research.
At World Health Organization and Grade Point Average he was also responsible for helping 18 countries in Africa to set up their National Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Committees and develop their national plans. In 1993 he went to Bosnia as the World Health Organization Public Health Advisor and remained based in Sarajevo, responsible for the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina, until the end of the war in 1995.
On his return from Bosnia he joined the International Centre for Migration and Health (ICMH), a Swiss-based research and training organisation, and worked again in Bosnia. He later went to Albania and Macedonia for the United Nations to assess the health situation of the refugees fleeing Kosovo.
In 2001 he became Executive Director of ICMH. In 2002 and 2003 he headed two health evaluation missions for the United Nations in the occupied Palestinian territories, and later in 2003 he went to Iraq to do the same.
In 2004 he headed the United Nations Population Fund tsunami relief and reconstruction mission to the Maldives and Sri Lanka. In 2005 and 2006 he was based for periods in Iran and Afghanistan developing emergency preparedness plans for those countries. He is a specialist on health issues of migrants and refugees (particularly reproductive health, but also diabetes) and also has worked extensively on Human Immunodeficiency Virus prevention programmes with uniformed services and peacekeeping forces.
Membership
He is a founding member of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Uniformed Services Task Force.
