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Dr Ricardo X. Martinez Martinez
Statistician, Project monitoring & evaluation specialist, and Public Health Advisor.
Nationality: Mexican
Dr. Ricardo X. Martinez, MPH, PhD is currently working as a consultant for the following WHO Departments and Programmes: Nutrition for Health and Development; Rehabilitation and Hearing Loss Programmes; Non Communicable Diseases; and Climate Change and Health.
He has 20 years of experience working as statistician, public health specialist, scientific researcher, and project monitoring and evaluation analyst, as well as managing high profile international health events.
The last 10 years he has intensively worked for several WHO Projects and Programmes, as well as collaborating with other International Organizations such as UNICEF, and UN Geneva office. Simultaneously, he has worked for leading non-governmental organizations such as Nutrition International, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance. The results of this work are documented in his publications, and the participation in various conferences and meetings (see conferences and meetings annex 3).
He has participated as event app manager in several high-profile meetings, and supported the start phase of running up the package of essential NCDs interventions in occupied Palestinian territories in 2011.
Prior to joining WHO in June 2010, he has worked on several European Health and Development research programmes, and scientific institutions. He has published in a wide range of fields such as: Statistics, Nutrition, Non Communicable diseases (including 4 major NCDs, blindness, and deafness), Genomics, Genetics, Bioinformatics, Health Technology, Health Statistics, Health Economics, Ecology and development domains.
Dr. Martinez is a scientist who received his degree of Applied Mathematics to Economy and Business Administration at the Technological Autonomous Institute of Mexico (Mexico: 2000), a master of Public Health at Paris-Sud XI (Paris: 2001), and a PhD in applied statistics and informatics to Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis (Nice: 2007).
He is native from Mexico, and married with two young kids. He loves discovering the world, photography, dance, and he speaks four languages: English, French, German, and Spanish.
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