Background
SCHIAFFINO, Rafael was born on July 2, 1881 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
SCHIAFFINO, Rafael was born on July 2, 1881 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Educated Colegio de los Jesuítas, 1892-1898, medical. school, University de Montevideo, 1899-1904.
Director of school health, 1920-1936. Professor, of hygiene, medical. school. Director of hygiene, since 1936.
Delegate, Pan. American Conference of National Directors of Health, Washington, District of Columbia.
Member organizing committee, 3d Pan. American Child Welfare Congress, Rio de Janeiro, 1922, delegate to 4th congress. Member: Institute Histórico y Geográfico (president 1941-1945), Society de Historia (Buenos Aires, Lima, Cuba, Colombia), Association for the Hist, of Medicine! Johns Hopkins), Society de Historia de Medicina (Lima, Buenos Aires), Associación Médica de Buenos Aires, Society de Geografía (Madrid), Société des Américanistes (Paris), Academy, de Medicina (Rio de Janeiro).