Career
He holds the position of associate professor at the Social Medicine Institute of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Doctor Dal Poz obtained his medical degree with specialization in paediatrics in 1975, followed by a Master"s in social medicine in 1981, and a doctorate in public health in 1996 from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Since 2000, Doctor Dal Poz has worked with the World Health Organization in health systems development, co-authoring among others the World Health Report 2006, which brought worldwide attention to the global health workforce crisis, and numerous references on health workforce information systems
In 2008, Doctor Dal Poz was invited to deliver a Regency Lecture on the "Global Response to the Health Workforce Crisis" at the Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research of the University of California, Berkeley.
He has published numerous books, as well as articles and commentaries in leading medical journals such as The Lancet and Health Policy and Planning.
