20 Facts About Cesar Victora

Cesar G Victora was born on 1952 and is a Brazilian-born epidemiologist, academic and specialist in child health and nutrition.

Cesar Victora is an Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the Federal University of Pelotas and holds or has held honorary appointments at the Universities of Harvard, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins, and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Cesar Victora's research includes Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI and the COHORTS collaboration.

Cesar Victora was one of the coordinators of the Multicenter Growth Reference Study that led to the development of WHO Child Growth Standards.

Cesar Victora has served on various international committees for the World Health Organization and UNICEF in the areas of child health and nutrition.

Cesar Victora was a founding member and the scientific coordinator of the Countdown to 2015 Initiative that tracked progress of countries toward the Millennium Development Goals.

Cesar Victora is one of the leaders of the new Countdown to 2030 initiative for monitoring the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals aimed at reducing maternal and child mortality.

Cesar Victora was born in Sao Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on 28 March 1952.

Cesar Victora 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 Saude do Rio Grande do Sul.

In 1980, Cesar Victora moved to the United Kingdom for his Ph.

In 1980's, Cesar Victora conducted the first study showing the importance of exclusive breastfeeding for preventing infant mortality.

Cesar Victora's 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.

Cesar Victora became a UNICEF consultant for Brazilian Country Office in 1987 and served in this position until 1993.

In 1997, Cesar 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.

Cesar Victora began teaching at Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University in 2007.

Cesar Victora became professor emeritus at the Federal University of Pelotas in 2009 and in 2012, Oxford University made him an Honorary Fellow.

Cesar Victora has over 680 peer-reviewed publications and is a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including The Lancet.

Cesar Victora made important contributions on how to evaluate the impact of health programs on child mortality, and on the study of social inequalities in child health.

Cesar Victora's work is based in Pelotas where he lives with his wife Mariangela Silveira, an obstetrician.

Cesar Victora's son, Gabriel Victora is a professor at Rockefeller University and a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.