ANDRES DE FRANCISCO
Deputy Executive Director, Global Forum for Health Research
Andres de Francisco is a Medical Doctor with a Doctorate in public health and with extensive experience in the interface between research findings and health policies. He has worked in the design, implementation, and evaluation of health interventions, and in the subsequent transferal of research knowledge into policies for health and population programmes in South America, Africa, and Asia.
He is currently the Deputy Executive Director and Head of Research and Programmes of the Global Forum for Health Research, an international foundation in Switzerland hosted by the World Health Organization which aims to promote, advance and focus research on health priority problems of developing countries. He is also an Elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine of Colombia, Associate of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in London.
His training includes an MD in Bogota, Colombia (Rosario, 1983), PhD in Medicine (London 1994), Masters in Clinical Tropical Medicine (1986) and in Community Health in Developing Countries (1987) in London, and a Diploma on Tropical Medicine (Royal Colleague of Physicians of London in 1986).
Past positions include: Project Director of the Matlab MCH-FP Programme and Coordinator of Reproductive Health Research at the Centre for Health and Population Research in Bangladesh (ICDDR,B); Honorary Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Senior Scientific Officer at the Medical Research Council in The Gambia, West Africa; and Director of the Hospital in Miraflores (a rural zone in the Amazonas region in Colombia).
Updated: 12 Mar 2007
