Professor Daniel Tarantola

Professor Daniel Tarantola MD

Professor of Health and Human Rights UNSW
Co-Founder of Medecins Sans Frontieres (also known as Doctors Without Borders)

Prof. Daniel Tarantola's career includes being instrumental in the foundation of the world-reknowned Medecins Sans Frontieres and the first doctor to be employed in the field for this organisation. Also, as a senior policy advisor to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a close collaborator of the late, great Jonathon Mann, a senior associate at the Francois-Zavier Bagnoud Centre for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and since 2005, is chair of the Initiative for Health and Human Rights, a unique cross-disciplined collaboration at UNSW. For more information please visit the Initiative's website.

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