Dr. María del Rosario Pérez
Dr Pérez is a physician who received her M.D. in 1980 from the School of Medicine of Buenos Aires University (Argentina), where she later specialized on Radiation Oncology. In 1990 she obtained a post-graduate diploma on Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety delivered by the IAEA jointly with the School of Engineering of the Buenos Aires University and the National Atomic Energy of Argentina. She completed her formation in Epidemiology in the National Academy of Medicine and since then her professional career has been focused on radiation protection and human health. Dr Pérez started working at the Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health (FWC/PHE) of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2007. Dr. Pérez has represented WHO at the Joint BSS Secretariat involved in the revision of the International Radiation Basic Safety Standards (BSS) and is currently member of the BSS Implementation Task Group of the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety (IACRS). She also represents WHO at the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of the Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), the IAEA Radiation Safety Standards Committee (RASSC), the EC Group of Scientific Experts referred to in Article 31 of the Euratom Treaty and the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). Currently her main responsibility is the technical coordination of the WHO Global Initiative on Radiation Safety in Health Care Settings which is focused on supporting the implementation of the Bonn Call for Action.
