Carl E. Taylor

Carl E Taylor
Born	(1916-07-26)July 26, 1916 Landour, India
Died	February 4, 2010(2010-02-04) (aged 93) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Nationality	American
Scientific career
Fields	Public Health
Institutions	Johns Hopkins School of Public Health & Future Generations

Carl Ernest Taylor, MD, DrPH (July 26, 1916 – February 4, 2010) founder of the academic discipline of international health who dedicated his life to the well-being of the world's marginalized people. He was the founding chair of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was a key contributor to the Alma Ata Declaration. At the age of 88, this energetic man assumed the challenging position as Country Director for the nonprofit organization Future Generations Afghanistan where he led an innovative field-based activities until age 90. He has worked in over 70 countries and having students from more than 100 countries. He was sharing this near century-long perspective with his students up until a week before his death.

Taylor was born in Landour, a small hill station contiguous with Mussoorie in the Western Himalayas. His parents were medical missionaries in the region. He spent his early years assisting his parents with a mobile clinic in the Indian jungles, including the then-extant riverine jungles along the Ganges river, where the river leaves the Himalayas and enters the Gangetic Plain. He came back to US and earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. After that he started practicing medicine in Panama where he also met and married his wife. They were together for 58 years until she died in 2001.

In 1947, he returned to India and became the director of Fatehgarh Presbyterian Hospital, near Agra. During the Partition of India, he led a medical team helping the local people. He came back to Harvard and completed his DrPH and his dissertation was about the relation between nutrition and infection and it is regarded as a seminal work in this field.

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