Jose Villar MD, MPH, MSc, FRCOG

Jose Villar is qualified in medicine and specialized in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology. Jose Villar obtained a Master of Sciences degree in Nutrition at WHO’s research unit in Guatemala, and a Masters's Degree in Public Health from Harvard University. Jose Villar completed his Post-doctoral Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.

Subsequently, Jose Villar was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Public Health and Obstetrics & Gynecology at Johns Hopkins University, where students selected me for the 1983 Excellence in Teaching “Golden Apple Award”.

Jose Villar was a Professor of Nutrition and Director of the Division of Nutrition and Health at the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), and of WHO in Guatemala in 1985 and 1986. In 1987 Jose Villar was appointed “Expert” in Obstetrics at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Bethesda, and Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Until 2006, Jose Villar was the WHO Co-ordinator of Maternal and Perinatal Health at WHO’s HQ in Geneva. Jose Villar was also the Director of the International Postgraduate Course on Reproductive Biology and Sexual Health at the University of Geneva between 2002 and 2006.