caption birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name alma_mater
daniel tarantola ajaccio , france french 1942 daniel tarantola
 daniel tarantola université de paris
daniel tarantola

daniel tarantola was born in ajaccio -lrb- corsica -rrb- , france , in 1942 .
having obtained his medical degree from paris university , daniel began an international health career in 1971 in the context of emergency humanitarian medical missions to biafra -lrb- nigeria -rrb- , and peru .
he was engaged in a movement with bernard kouchner which resulted in the foundation of médecins sans frontières , of which he was the first physician working in the field -lrb- 1973 , burkina faso -rrb- .
early in his career , daniel worked over almost two decades with the world health organization on large scale international health programmes , including the eradication of smallpox from bangladesh -lrb- 1974 -- 1978 -rrb- , childhood disease control programmes -lrb- 1979 -- 1984 -rrb- , the expanded programme on immunization , the control of diarrhoeal diseases programme , the acute respiratory infections programme and as a senior member of the team who designed and started the launching of the who global programme on hiv/aids -lrb- 1987 -- 1990 -rrb- .
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 jonathan mann , with whom he was closely associated over a period of twelve years , he co-authored and co-edited a number of publications including two volumes of aids in the world , in 1992 and 1996 , respectively .
while mann is the person most associated with the movement that seeks to integrate public health and human rights by conceptualizing them as interdependent , it is fair to say that in a less public manner tarantola played -lrb- and continues to play -rrb- an equally key role in working to establish ` health and human rights ' as integral to the on-the-ground work of igos , states , and ngos .
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 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 .
