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Ce'sar Chelala
Global Health Consultant & Contributing Editor, The Globalist
Ce'sar Chelala is the global health consultant and a contributing editor for The Globalist.
Since 1980, he has worked as a consultant on planning, monitoring and evaluation of public health projects for several international agencies.
He has conducted health-related missions in over 45 countries for USAID, UNICEF, WHO, PAHO, UNFPA, UNDP, UNESCO, Capital Development Fund, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the Mexican Foundation for Health, World Education, The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Carnegie Corporation.
He was born in the Northern city of Tucuma'n, Argentina, in 1940 -- and graduated as an MD in 1964. In 1971, he came to the United States and worked as a researcher in molecular genetics and pharmacology at The Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York and later at New York University School of Medicine.
He has written medical and scientific articles for The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, Molecular and General Genetics, the British Medical Journal and Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
In 1979, he wrote with Paul H. Hoeffel an article about the "disappeared" in Argentina. The article, "Missing or Dead in Argentina: The Desperate Search for Thousands of Abducted Victims," was published as a cover story in The New York Times Magazine. For his work, the authors received the 1979 Overseas Press Club of America award for the best article on human rights.
Recent contributions:
Obama and Carter: Two U.S. Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize Compared
World Military Spending -- Mutually Assured Self-Destruction?
Will China Grow Old Before It Grows Rich?
China, Oil and the South China Sea
Leo Messi: Argentina's Best Export Ever?
Creating an Enemy of Iran
The Golden Curse of the Peruvian Amazon
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Friday, April 9, 2021Yemen is a Public Health Catastrophe The war in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, has reached new heights of sickness and death by the spreading of the coronavirus pandemic in a vulnerable and fragile population.
Saturday, June 29, 2019U.S. Policy on Immigrant Children Violates the Convention on the Rights of the Child? A Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned while attempting to seek asylum in the United States are the latest victims of a policy that has cost the lives and seriously affected the health of hundreds of people, most of them children. Children have been separated from their parents and kept in steel cages, a brutal aggression against those most vulnerable.
Wednesday, May 9, 2018Trump's Decision on Iran Deal Spells Disaster for the Middle East President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the deal with Iran creates, unnecessarily, a new source of tension in a region besieged by conflicts. Given the level of legal troubles that President Trump is facing now, his decision could be based to some extent in creating the conditions to fog his personal drama.
