Jonathan Mann (WHO official)
| Jonathan Mann | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jonathan Max Mann July 30, 1947 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | September 2, 1998 (aged 51) Atlantic Ocean near St. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Cause of death | Plane crash involving Swissair Flight 111 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Administrator for the World Health Organization |
| Spouse(s) | Marie-Paule Bondat (1970–1995; divorced) Mary Lou Clements-Mann (1996–1998; their deaths) |
| Children | one son, two daughters |
Jonathan Max Mann (July 30, 1947 – September 2, 1998) was an American physician who was an administrator for the World Health Organization, and spearheaded much early AIDS research in the 1980s.
Mann was president of the National Honor Society in the Newton South High School class of 1965. He earned his B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College, his M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis (1974), and the degree of M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1980.
Mann joined the Centers for Disease Control in 1975, staying there until 1977. He then became the State Epidemiologist for New Mexico, until 1984.
Mann moved to Zaire in March 1984 as a founder of Project SIDA, an effort to study AIDS in Africa, after being recruited by fellow epidemiologist Joseph B. McCormick.
Mann founded the WHO's Global Programme for AIDS in 1986. In March 1990, Mann resigned this post to protest the lack of response from the United Nations with regard to AIDS, and the actions of the then WHO director-general Hiroshi Nakajima.
In 1990, Mann founded the health and human rights organization HealthRight International (initially known as Doctors of the World-USA), because he felt there was a void amongst the health and human rights organizations in the United States and he wanted to create a unique organization whose mission was to create sustainable programs that promote and protect health and human rights in the United States and abroad.
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