Manuel Carballo

Manuel Carballo is an epidemiologist and a graduate of Leeds University (UK) and the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and CDC (US). He is Executive Director of the International Centre for Migration, Health and Development in Geneva, and was previously a senior scientist at WHO where he worked in a number of countries. At WHO he led the landmark study on Infant and Young Child Feeding, testified on the results of it to US Kennedy Congressional Hearings, and then led development of the binding WHO/UNICEF Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes. In 1986 he was one of the three-person team asked to develop WHO’s Global Program on AIDS and remained with it until 1992 as its Chief of Behavioural Research. From 1993 to 1995, he was WHO Public Health Adviser in Sarajevo, and after the war he was seconded to create ICMHD where he has coordinated major studies on migration and public health issues such as viral hepatitis, TB, diabetes, maternal and child health, and mental health. Last year he led a series of Covid-19 Guidance Notes on Community Quarantine, Migrants, Humanitarian Crises, and Midwifery. He has led health-in-crisis assessment missions in Kosovo, Iraq, Iran, the Palestinian occupied territories, and a UN Tsunami response team in the Maldives. Most recently he has prepared reports for WHO on Health and Fragility, and Emergency Preparedness. He has been a Clinical Professor of Public Health at the Columbia University School of Public Health, an Adjunct Professor at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and in 2014 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science by Glasgow Caledonian University for his contribution to global health and academic research. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Spanish Royal European Academy of Doctors.