Cesar Victora

Quick Facts

Full Name	Cesar Victora
Occupation	Epidemiologist
Date Of Birth	Mar 28, 1952(1952-03-28)
Age	72
Birthplace	São Gabriel
Birth City	São Gabriel
Horoscope	Aries

Cesar Victora Biography

Cesar Victora is one of the most popular and richest Epidemiologist who was born on March 28, 1952 in São Gabriel, São Gabriel, ****. Victora was born in São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on 28 March 1952. He graduated in Medicine at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 1976, when he began a one year long residency in community health at the Murialdo Health Centre, Secretaria da Saúde do Rio Grande do Sul. The next year he began teaching at Federal University of Pelotas.

After completing his Ph.D, Victora returned to Brazil and, jointly with Fernando Barros, became the principal investigator in one of the longest running birth cohort studies in the world, the 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort, in which 6,000 individuals have been followed up to the present time as of 2017. With Barros, he also set up new birth cohorts in 1993, 2004 and 2015, making the city of Pelotas one of the most intensively studied populations in the world.

Victora became a UNICEF consultant for Brazilian Country Office in 1987 and served in this position until 1993. Later, in 1995 he became a UNICEF Consultant for Evaluation and Research Office at UNICEF in New York for one year, where he led the development of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, currently used in several countries. In 1996, he became the head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Nutrition in the area of Maternal and Child Nutrition at the Federal University of Pelotas. The same year he was also given the title of Honorary Professor at Department of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

In 1997, Victora became the Senior Technical Advisor for the Multi-Country Evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Strategy at World Health Organization, Geneva, a study that involved 12 countries. He coordinated the Lancet/Bellagio Child Survival Series in 2003 and later became one of the founding members of Countdown to 2015: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health initiative.

In 1980, Victora moved to the United Kingdom for his Ph.D in Health Care Epidemiology, at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled The epidemiology of child health in Southern Brazil. The relationships between mortality, nutrition, health care and agricultural development. He completed his Ph.D in 1983.

Cesar Victora Net Worth

Cesar Victora is one of the richest Epidemiologist from . According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Cesar Victora 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Cesar G. Victora (born 1952) is a Brazilian-born epidemiologist, academic and specialist in child health and nutrition. He is an Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the Federal University of Pelotas and holds honorary appointments at the Universities of Harvard, Oxford, Johns Hopkins and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

In 1980’s, Victora conducted the first study showing the importance of exclusive breastfeeding for preventing infant mortality. His findings contributed to global policy recommendations by UNICEF and the World Health Organization for mothers to breastfeed their infants exclusively for the first six months of life. Victora’s research during this time helped understand how the first 1000 days influence the lifelong outcomes such as chronic illnesses and human capital.

Victora’s research has driven global policies on breastfeeding and early nutrition. His research includes Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI and the COHORTS collaboration. Moreover, he was the joint principal investigator of the three Pelotas Birth Cohort Studies conducted in 1982, 1993 and 2004. He was one of the coordinators of the Multicenter Growth Reference Study that led to the development of WHO Child Growth Standards. In 2017, he was awarded the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award.

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