Jorge Jiménez (Chilean politician)
| Jorge Jiménez | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 25, 1944 Santiago, Chile |
| Residence | Santiago, Chile |
Jorge Jiménez de la Jara (b. December 25, 1944) is a Chilean Christian Democrat politician, MD and former Minister of Health and Ambassador to Italy. He has published over seventy articles and ten books on public health, paediatrics and infectious diseases, and has worked as a consultant for the PanAmerican Health Organization, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation and a number of other multilateral agencies.
Jiménez comes from a very political family. His father was Minister of Health under President Salvador Allende, and his sister Mónica Jiménez is the current Minister of Education. He is a physician graduated from the Universidad Catolica de Chile in 1968, who has worked as General Practitioner (1968–1971), trained as Pediatrician in the University of Chile (1971–1974). Practiced and taught Pediatrics, Neonatology and Respiratory Diseases in Children between 1974 and 1990. Trained in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (1987–1988) where he obtained a MPH in the Hubert Humphrey Program of the US Government.
He was a very active health promoter communicator in mass media (TV, journals, and magazines) in maternal and child health matters in the seventies in Chile, field in which WHO awarded him a Fellowship in 1977. During the 1980s he started doing research in Health Policy at Corporación de Promoción Universitaria (CPU) an NGO, where he developed the Alternative Health Policy for the restoration of democracy in Chile with funding from IDRC and Adenauer Foundation, when he became Minister of Health in 1990 through 1992. In between he consulted in Public Health with the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, The Rockefeller Foundation, USAID, WHO and PAHO, among other institutions.
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