Aly Tewfik Shousha Explained

Honorific Prefix:Sir
Honorific Suffix:Pasha
Aly Tewfik Shousha
Native Name:علي توفيق شوشة
Native Name Lang:ar
Birth Date:17 August 1891
Occupation:Bacteriologist
Birth Place:Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt

Sir Aly Tewfik Shousha, Pasha (; 17 August 1891 – 31 May 1964) was an Egyptian doctor and a founding member of the World Health Organization.[1]

Early life and education

Aly Tewfik Shousha was born in Cairo, on 17 August 1891. He graduated from the School of Medicine, Humboldt University of Berlin in 1915, and specialized in the study of bacteriology at the University of Zurich. He later became an assistant at the Hygienische Institute in Zurich (1916–1917).[2] [3]

Career

Shousha returned to Egypt to serve as a bacteriologist in 1924, before he served as a Director of Laboratories of the Ministry of Public Health in 1930.[4] He then became the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in 1939.[5] On 1 July 1949, he became the first Regional Director of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) at its inception.[6] [7] He was also one of WHO's founding members and the Chairman of the Executive Board of WHO.[8] Shousha published many articles on bacteriology, including immunology.[9] He contributed to the editing of the facilitated Arabic Encyclopedia, and was elected to the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo in 1942.[10] [11]

Death

Shousha died on 31 May 1964, aged 72, while he was attending the WHO Executive Board meeting in Geneva. He was attending as a representative of the League of Arab States, whose health activities he directed.[12] [13]

Awards and honours

Shousha's many decorations include Order of the Nile in 1936, the US Typhus Commission Medal in 1944, Order of Pashwiya on 26 April 1945,[14] and Commander and then Knight of the Order of the British Empire in 1948. A street in Nasr City, Cairo, was named after him.[15] In 1966, the ninth World Health Assembly established a foundation to honour his memory as one of the World Health Organization founders and first WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean. The foundation's purpose is to award a prize known as the Shousha Prize, which is given to a person who made the most significant contribution to any health problem in the geographical area in which Dr Shousha served the WHO. The foundation also gives a fellowship every six years that amounts to US$15,000.[16] [17]

References

  1. News: 2 June 1964 . Dr. Aly Tewfik Shousha, 72, Founder‐Member of W.H.O. . en-US . The New York Times . 11 February 2023 . 0362-4331 . 11 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230211234445/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/02/archives/dr-aly-tewfik-shousha-72-foundermember-of-who.html . live .
  2. Web site: biographical note: Sir Aly Tewfik Shousha, Pasha, Chairman of the WHO Executive Board and Director-designate of the WHO Regional bureau in Alexandria . IRIS Home . 1949 . 2024-06-27.
  3. Book: Report by [the] Surgeon General, Public Health Service, Chairman of the United States Delegation to the World Health Assembly ]. 1970 . Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service. . en . 12 February 2023 . 25 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230325203540/https://books.google.com/books?id=sp_Vy_LLfpIC&dq=%22Aly+Tewfik+Shousha%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA7 . live .
  4. Le Mondain Egyptien (The Egyptian Who is Who). F. E. Noury et Fils, Cairo, 1939
  5. Web site: United Nations Audiovisual Library . 11 February 2023 . United Nations UN Audiovisual Library . en . 11 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230211235614/https://www.unmultimedia.org/avlibrary/search/search.jsp?sort=cdate_desc&ptag=ALY+TEWFIK+SHOUSHA+PASHA& . live .
  6. 1949 . World Health Organization . International Organization . 3 . 2 . 357–360 . 10.1017/S0020818300020786 . 2703761 . 0020-8183 . 11 February 2023 . 14 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230214020836/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2703761 . live .
  7. Web site: دور منظمة الصحة العالمية وبرنامجها العربي في النهوض باللغة العربية . World Health Organization - Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean . 2009-03-06 . 2024-06-27.
  8. Web site: Speech by Dr. Aly Tewfik Shousha Pasha Chairman of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization . IRIS Home . 1949 . 2024-06-27.
  9. Shousha . A. T. . 1948 . Cholera Epidemic in Egypt (1947): A Preliminary Report . Bulletin of the World Health Organization . 1 . 2 . 353–381 . 0042-9686 . 2553924 . 20603928.
  10. مجمع اللغة العربية بالقاهرة: أعضاء المجمع السابقون
  11. 1950 . Medical News . The British Medical Journal . 1 . 4649 . 382–384 . 25375138 . 0007-1447 . 11 February 2023 . 14 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230214100946/https://www.jstor.org/stable/25375138 . live .
  12. Group . British Medical Journal Publishing . 27 June 1964 . Obituary Notices . Br Med J . en . 1 . 5399 . 1711–1714 . 10.1136/bmj.1.5399.1711 . 220232145 . 0007-1447 . 11 February 2023 . 11 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230211234742/https://www.bmj.com/content/1/5399/1711 . live .
  13. Web site: FINALACTOFTHEINTERNATIONAL HEALTHCONFERENCE . 11 February 2023 . paperspast.natlib.govt.nz . 11 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230211235610/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/imageserver/parliamentary/P29pZD1BSkhSMTk0Ny1JLjEuNTA1JmdldHBkZj10cnVl . live .
  14. Web site: pashalst-2 . 21 February 2023 . www.egy.com . 2 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180102054353/http://www.egy.com/historica/pashalst.php . live .
  15. Web site: شارع علي توفيق شوشه, القاهرة . 12 February 2023 . www.cartogiraffe.com . 12 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230212001227/https://www.cartogiraffe.com/%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A9/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B9+%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A+%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%82+%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%87/ . live .
  16. Web site: Dr A.T. Shousha Foundation Prize and Fellowship . 1 December 2022 . WHO . 19 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230219215505/https://apps.who.int/gb/awards/e/Shousha.html . live .
  17. Book: Award of the Dr A.T. Shousha Foundation Prize and Fellowship . 2015 . World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean . 10665/250518 . free.

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