Dr Delia Enria

Dr Delia Enria was born in 1952 in Argentina. She got her medical degree at the University of Rosario, School of Medicine, Argentina, in 1975.

From 1976-79, she did a residence on Internal Medicine at the National Centenario Hospital in Rosario. From 1980-81, she studied at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and of Public Health, Baltimore, USA, and obtained a Master in Public Health degree. In 1981, she got the title of Specialist on Internal Medicine from the Medical College of Buenos Aires Province, and in 1992 the degree of Specialist on Infectious Diseases. In 2009, she got a degree on Higher studies on Bioethic from the Latinoamerican Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO).

She has worked at the current Institute of Human Viral Diseases “J. Maiztegui” in Pergamino, Argentina, since 1979. She was there the Chief from the Department of Clinic an Epidemiology between 1983-92, and from 1992-93 the Chief of the Research Department. Since 1993 to 20018, she was the Director of the Institute. Since 1994, she was the Director of the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre in Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers and Arboviruses at the INEVH. Through the work of the Institute, WHO/PAHO and international collaborations, Argentina achieved the control of Argentine Haemorrhagic Fever (Junin Virus). She is professor at the University of Northwestern Buenos Aires Province, whree she was the Director of the Master in Prevention and Control of the Zoonosis carreer.

Dr Enria has done many international collaborations in the region of the Americas, including Venezuelan Haemorrhagic Fever (Guanare virus), Bolivian Haemorrhagic Fever (Machupo virus), dengue yellow fever and hantavirus outbreaks. She has also worked in the development of many guidelines, and has done other international consultantships.

She has more than 150 original publications and many chapters in books. His main research was done on the treatment of Argentine Haemorrhagic Fever with immune plasma; a live-attenuated effective Junin virus vaccine against this disease, and the emergence of hantavirus diseases in the Americas.