Francisco Cambournac (26 December 1903 – 8 June 1994)[1] was a notable Portuguese doctor.[2][3] He came to the fore in the field of Malariology,[4][5] a subject that contributed greatly to Portuguese medicine. He won the Léon Bernard Foundation Prize in 1978.[6][7]

Francisco Cambournac
Born26 December 1903
Died8 June 1994(1994-06-08) (aged 90)
Lisbon
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon
AwardsLéon Bernard Foundation Prize (1978)
Scientific career
FieldsMalariology
InstitutionsWorld Health Organization
Rockefeller Foundation

Biography

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Cambournac was born on 26 of December 1903 in Rio de Mouro,[1] Portugal and was educated at the University of Lisbon and graduated in 1929.[3] He then specialised in tropical medicine, hygiene, and malaria between 1934 and 1943 while joining missions that examined health care in Portuguese colonies.[2]

Cambournac was made a professor of hygiene at the Tropical Medicine Institute, Lisbon in 1946.[2] He served as the regional director of the World Health Organization’s African Regional Office between 1954 and 1964 working on malaria research[4] before continuing his work at Rockefeller Foundation.[2] He won the Léon Bernard Foundation Prize in 1978 for outstanding service in the field of social medicine.[6][7]

Cambournac died on 8 June 1994 in Lisbon.[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Francisco Cambournac, * 1903". geneall.net.
  2. ^ a b c d Lee, Kelley; Fang, Jennifer (2013). Historical Dictionary of the World Health Organization. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-7858-7.
  3. ^ a b AMARO, F.; LUZ, T.; PARREIRA, P.; MARCHI, A.; CIUFOLINI, M. G.; ALVES, M. J. (2012). "Serological evidence of Toscana virus infection in Portuguese patients". Epidemiology and Infection. 140 (6): 1147–1150. doi:10.1017/S0950268811001403. ISSN 0950-2688. JSTOR 41548816. PMID 21798106. S2CID 27953261.
  4. ^ a b Bibliography of the History of Medicine. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Library of Medicine. 1984.
  5. ^ Madeira, Sara; Duarte, Ana; Boinas, Fernando; Costa Osório, Hugo (December 2021). "A DNA barcode reference library of Portuguese mosquitoes". Zoonoses and Public Health. 68 (8): 926–936. doi:10.1111/zph.12885. hdl:10400.18/8232. ISSN 1863-2378. PMID 34398521. S2CID 237095555.
  6. ^ a b "The Léon Bernard Foundation Prize – Previous prize winners". World Health Organization. WHO. Archived from the original on 8 July 2004. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  7. ^ a b "[Solemn session of homage to Francisco Cambournac on the occasion of honoring him with the award and medal of the Leon Bernard Foundation of the World Health Organization-June 22, 1978]". Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical. 5 (1–4): 37–53. 1977–1978. ISSN 0303-7762. PMID 399825.
  8. ^ Lobo, Rita (2013). "Francisco Cambournac (1903-1994) and the Expertise on the Study of Metropolitan and Colonial Malaria in Portugal". Conferência Internacional Shaping Landscapes and Building Expertise - the role of imperial technology in the making of the 19th and 20th century world: 36.