Mário Roberto Dal Poz is a Brazilian

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

and researcher, who worked as coordinator of the ''"Health Workforce Information and Governance"'' program at the

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(WHO) in

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from 2002 to 2012. He holds the position of associate professor at the Social Medicine Institute of the

University of the State of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ; pt, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) is a public research university in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is one of the largest and most prestigious universities in the country. The universit ...

. He is also currently editor-in-chief of the ''

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'' journal, and a member of the editorial board of the ''

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'' and ''Revista Espaço para a Saude''. Dr. Dal Poz obtained his medical degree with specialization in pediatrics in 1975, followed by a Master's in social medicine in 1981, and a doctorate in

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in 1996 from the

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. Between 2000 and 2012, Dr. Dal Poz worked with the WHO in

health system Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...

s development, co-authoring among others the ''World Health Report 2006'', which brought worldwide attention to the global

health workforce Health human resources (HHR) – also known as human resources for health (HRH) or health workforce – is defined as "all people engaged in actions whose primary intent is to enhance positive health outcomes", according to World Health Organizati ...

crisis, and numerous references on health workforce information systems. In 2008, Dr. Dal Poz was invited to deliver a Regency Lecture on the "Global Response to the Health Workforce Crisis" at the Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research of the

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. In 2009, he was awarded the Oswald Cruz Gold Merit Medal from the Brazilian President for contributions to public health. He has published numerous books, as well as articles and commentaries in leading medical journals such as ''

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'' and ''Health Policy and Planning.''BioMed Experts
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