Jenny Pronczuk de Garbino: A Global Champion for Children’s Health

1Department of Preventive Medicine, and 2Arnhold Global Health Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA; 3National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA About This Article open Citation: Landrigan PJ, Suk WA. 2015. Jenny Pronczuk de Garbino: A global champion for children’s health. Environ Health Perspect 123:A52–A53; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1408293. E-mail: phil.landrigan@mssm.edu Final Publication: 1 March 2015 PDF Version (284 KB) On 20 September 2010, the children of the world, and all of us who work in children’s environmental health and pediatric toxicology, lost a beloved friend and global champion with the untimely death of Jenny Pronczuk de Garbino at 63 years of age. Pronczuk was a physician and, for many years, a medical officer in the Department of Public Health and Environment of the World Health Organization (WHO). She was the founder and, for more than a decade, the charismatic and inspirational leader of the WHO Initiative in Children’s Environmental Health. Her work improved the lives of children in all regions of the world. Pronczuk was born in Uruguay of Ukrainian parents. She grew up in Montevideo and the wild countryside of rural Uruguay, which she loved deeply. She was trained as a physician at the School of Medicine of the Universidad de la República in Uruguay, complet...
Source: EHP Research - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Editorial March 2015 Source Type: research