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Jonathan Carapetis (born 1961) is an Australian paediatric physician with particular expertise in infectious disease and Indigenous child health. He is a Winthrop Professor, University of Western Australia and an Honorary Distinguished Research Fellow of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Professor Carapetis is the Director of the (Telethon Kids Institute ) (formerly the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research) in Perth, Western Australia. He is a medical practitioner (MBBS), specialist paediatric physician (FRACP Paediatrics) infectious diseases physician (FRACP Infect Dis), and public health physician (FAFPHM), as well as a PhD. ==Life== Carapetis was born in Port Pirie, South Australia. He moved to Washington DC in the mid-1970s where he lived for four years while his father worked as a civil engineer for the World Bank in Africa. It was during frequent visits to Africa to see his father that Carapetis developed an awareness and understanding of other cultures and governments. The majority of his high school years were spent at an International school in the US completing the International Baccalaureate before he returned to Australia to study medicine at the University of Melbourne. He spent many of his university holidays flying back to Africa to spend time with his father and it was in Tanzania where he conducted his university related practical medical elective, immersing himself in a local community near Mt Kilimanjaro. It was here Carapetis developed an interest in child health and saw first-hand the challenges facing families struggling with poverty and with major health crises such as the onset of HIV, malaria, pneumonia and malnutrition. Carapetis is married to paediatrician and epidemiologist Associate Professor Sue Skull. Together they have two daughters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonathan Carapetis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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