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Dr. Hamid Jafari
serves as the main technical advisor to the Government of India (GoI) in the implementation of polio eradication and other
immunization activities and directs WHO’s extensive
network of nearly 1000 field personnel, including more than 300 surveillance
medical officers, who are instrumental in providing technical and
programmatic assistance to the government.
Before this assignment, Dr. Hamid Jafari was appointed as Regional Advisor for Polio
Eradication and Vaccine-Preventable Disease Surveillance in WHO Regional
Office for South-East Asia. Prior to this he
served as Director of the Global Immunization Division and before that as
Chief of the Polio Eradication Branch at the Centers for Disease Control
& Prevention (CDC), Atlanta,
USA. He began
his career in epidemiology and public health in 1992 at the National Center
for Infections Diseases CDC, and later worked at the National Immunization
Program, CDC. Dr. Jafari
served as Medical Officer for Polio Eradication in the Regional Office of WHO
for Eastern Mediterranean from 1996-2002 on
assignment from the CDC.
Dr. Jafari completed his residency
training in Pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School,
New Hampshire, U.S.A.
and his Pediatric Infectious Disease fellowship training at University of
Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas
Texas, U.S.A.
He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of
Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Before
his pediatrics training, Dr. Jafari completed a
one-year research fellowship at the Harvard Medical
School. Dr. Jafari has
published over 50 scientific papers and book chapters on polio eradication,
other vaccine-preventable diseases and in the area of pathogenesis and
epidemiology of invasive bacterial diseases.
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