Carl Ernest Taylor, MD, DrPH (July 26, 1916 – February 4, 2010) founder of the academic discipline of international health who dedicated his life to the well-being of the world's marginalized people.
Taylor was born in Landour, a small hill station contiguous with Mussoorie in the Western Himalayas.
He came back to Harvard and completed his DrPH and his dissertation was about the relation between nutrition and infection and it is regarded as a seminal work in this field.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton recognized him for "Sustained work to protect children around the world in especially difficult circumstances and a life-time commitment to community based primary care.” With an eight-decade long career in international health, he has influenced thousands around the world.
[8] He continued to teach a course at JHSPH on Primary Health Care with special emphasis on community-based approaches until one week before his death.
He has inspired and influenced directly or indirectly many successful community-based health interventions, such as Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed and the Home-based newborn care developed by Drs Abhay Bang and Rani Bang among many others.