WILLIAM CHARLES COCKBURN, Diplomat, Official. Director, Division of Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization. Honorary Member, Epidemiology Section(s), Royal Society of Medicine, 74. Domus Medica.
Education
University of Aberdeen, 1931-1936, Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery. University of London, 1945, Diploma Public Health. Royal College of Physicians, 1958, Member, 1971, Fellow.
University of Aberdeen, 1963, Doctor of Medicine. Spoken languages: English, French.
Career
Director, Division of Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization since 1974. Associate Director, Division of Communicable Diseases, 1973-1974. Chief Medical Officer, Virus Diseases Unit, World Health Organization, 1961-1973.
Director, Central Public Health Laboratory, United Kingdom, 1947-1961.