Dr. Hamid Jafari is currently the director of global polio eradication operations and research at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. Before this appointment in March 2012, Dr. Jafari served as the project manager of WHO’s National Polio Surveillance Project in India (2007-2012). Before his assignment in India, Dr. Jafari served as director of the global immunization division at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. He has also served as the medical officer for polio eradication in the regional office of WHO for Eastern Mediterranean on assignment from CDC. Jafari obtained his degree in medicine and surgery from Sind Medical College, Karachi University. He completed his residency training in pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School and his pediatric infectious disease fellowship training at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He has been certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in the subspecialty of pediatric infectious diseases. Jafari also completed a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Jafari has published over 80 scientific papers and book chapters on polio eradication and other vaccine-preventable diseases.
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