CLAUDIO F. LANATA
Senior Researcher
Dr. Claudio Lanata is a Senior Researcher at the Nutritional Research Institute in Lima, Peru, which he joined in 1983, after returning from his post-graduate training in the USA. In 1977 he obtained his MD from the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia. He then went to USA to do post-graduate training in Internal Medicine at St. Vincent's Medical Centre (Bridgeport, CT; 1997-1980), which was followed by a fellowship on infectious diseases at the Department of Medicine of the University of Maryland (Baltimore, MD, between 1980 and 1982).. In 1982, he became a Research Fellow in Geographical Medicine at the School of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University, and in 1983 he obtained a Master Degree in Public Health from the School of Hygiene and Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University.
On his return to Peru, he has led extensive research in the fields of child health and nutrition, mainly on diarrheal and respiratory diseases, micronutrients and vaccine development.
More recently he has been involved in a large quality assurance program that was able to improve the quality of care of maternal and perinatal health in half of Peru territory, with a significant reduction on maternal mortality in the areas intervened, and was responsible to start a follow-up study involving a cohort of 2000 children and their families during 16 years, to study the relationship of poverty, health, education and policy issues in this area.
His work has resulted in one book, 17 chapters and more than 75 journal publications, most of them in major international journals.
For many years, he has been an active collaborator with WHO and PAHO, where he has participated and continues to be part of several expert committees on diarrheal and vaccine development.
Since 2001 he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, today known as Centre for Health and Population Research. He is a member of the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group of the Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development of WHO.
He is an Associate of the Department of International Health of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg's School of Public Health and Clinical Assistance Professor of the Department of Medicine in the University of Maryland. Likewise, he is Honorary Professor of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition.
Updated: 12 Mar 2007
