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where he was a programme officer from 1998 to 2004
spearheading a programme on public-private partnerships in R&D
for diseases of poverty and the Foundation’s strategy on AIDS.
Dr Pablos-Méndez received his MD from the University of
Guadalajara’s School of Medicine (Mexico) and his MPH from
Columbia University’s School of Public Health.
Ramesh Shademani is a technical 0fficer in the Cluster of
Information, Evidence and Research in the World Health
Organization (WHO). She joined WHO seven years ago as a
technical officer in the Department of Health and Development.
Later, she worked as an editor for the Bulletin of the World Health
Organization. She obtained her Master of Science in Epidemiology
from the Laval University in Canada and worked as an
environmental epidemiologist in Quebec prior to joining WHO.
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