Daniel Tarantola
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Born | 1942 Université de Paris |
Daniel Tarantola was born in Ajaccio (Corsica), France, in 1942. Having obtained his medical degree from
Having left WHO in 1991, Daniel was over a period of eight years a lecturer in the Department of Population and International Health of the Harvard School of Public Health and a Senior Associate of the Harvard-based François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. With
From 1998–2004, Daniel rejoined the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva as a Senior Policy Adviser to the Director General with a specific focus on health and human rights, HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases, and family health. Additionally during the latter part of this period, Daniel occupied the function of Director of the WHO Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals.
In 2005, upon retiring from the WHO, Daniel took up a professorship at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, leading a cross-Faculty research initiative on Health and Human Rights involving the Faculties of Medicine, Law and Arts and Social Sciences. In 2010, Daniel relocated to his own country, France. His current work aims at exploring the interface and synergies between health, development and human rights[4][5] as they relate, among other topics, to: HIV, Hepatitis C, poverty and human development, climate change, indigenous populations, migration, refugees and post-disaster impact mitigation. He continues to be very active in the field of immunization for which he chairs a number of programme evaluations and strategic planning.
References
- ^ Joarder AK, Tarantola D and Tulloch J (1979) Smallpox Eradication in Bangladesh (World Health Organization Monograph Series No. 8, South East Asia) World Health Organization Regional Publications, New Delhi
- ^ Mann JM, Tarantola D and Netter T (eds) (1992) AIDS in the World: the Global AIDS Policy Coalition Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass
- ^ Mann JM and Tarantola D (eds) (1996) AIDS in the World II: Global Dimensions, Social Roots and Responses Oxford University Press, New York [English, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese]
- ^ Tarantola, D.; Byrnes, A.; Johnson, M.; Kemp, L; Zwi, AB; Gruskin, S (2008). "Human Rights, Health and Development" (PDF). Australian Journal of Human Rights 13(2):1–32.
- ^ Grodin, M.; Tarantola, D.; Annas, G.; Gruskin, S. (2013). "Health and Human Rights in a Changing World' (textbook)". Routledge.com.