Professor peter figueroa biography

Peter Eugene Figueroa, scholar of race relations, education and sociology, born 31 January 1936; died 10 August 2011.
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National Epidemiologist, Professor of Public Health, Epidemiology & HIV/AIDS at the University of the West Indies, Executive Director of Caribbean Public.

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PLENARY SESSION PRESENTERS ANNOUNCED

The Conference is pleased to announce the presenters for Plenary Session I : The Epidemic and the Response, which will be held Saturday, November 19, at 9:00 a.m., in the Atlantis Conference Center.

Thirty Years of HIV/AIDS : A Scientific Journey and Look to the Future will be presented by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, United States. Dr. Fauci’s biography is available at http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/directors/biography/Pages/biography.aspx.

General HIV Epidemiology will be presented by J. Peter Figueroa, M.B.B.S., D.P.H., Professor of Public Health, Epidemiology, and HIV/AIDS, The University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. Dr. Figueroa’s biography is available at http://www.who.int/immunization/sage/members/bio_figueroa/en/index.html.

The Caribbean Response to HIV Amidst Natural Disasters will be presented by Jean William Pape, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, and

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World Bank / PAHO Lancet Commission on Primary Health Care and Resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean

Director at EQUIDE, an interdisciplinary research institute at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, focusing on applied research in health and poverty from an equity perspective. A flagship project was a monthly repeated cross-section study to monitor the Mexican population during the COVID-19 pandemic on indicators such as unemployment, food insecurity and mental health. Pablo holds a PhD in Social Welfare by Boston College and was trained as a Sociologist and Psychologist. He specializes in measurement, epidemiology, evaluation, and implementation science. He participates in projects with UNICEF, FAO, Innovations for Poverty Action, Northwestern University, and the Rede PESSAN. Co-coordinates the research network on water insecurity in Latin-America. He is a member of Mexico’s National Registry of Researchers, First level. Interested in health systems, social determinants of health, aging, mental health, and food and water insecurity.

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John Figueroa

Jamaican poet and educator (1920–1999)

John Joseph Maria Figueroa (4 August 1920 – 5 March 1999) was a Jamaican poet and educator.^[1] He played a significant role in the development of Anglophone Caribbean literature both as a poet and an anthologist. He contributed to the development of the University College of the West Indies as an early member of staff, and had a parallel career as a broadcaster, working for various media organizations including the BBC. He also taught in Jamaica, Britain, the United States, Nigeria and Puerto Rico.^[2]

Biography

Figueroa was born in Jamaica, the eldest of the 13 children (10 of whom survived infancy) of Blanche Maria Palomino and Rupert Aston Figueroa.^[3] He was educated at St George's College, and won a scholarship to attend the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, graduating in 1942. He then taught at St George's College and at Wolmer's School in Jamaica.^[4]Blue Mountain Peak, his first collection of poetry, appeared in 1944.^[2] In 1946 he went on a Brit