Dr Marcolino Gomes Candau, WHO Director-General (1952- 1973)

Dr Marcolino Gomes Candau served as WHO’s second Director-General from 1953 to 1973.

Dr Candau was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 30 May 1911, and died in Geneva in 1983. He completed his medical studies at the School of Medicine of the State of Rio De Janeiro and at the School of Hygiene and Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University, in the United States of America./.../