[2][3] He came to the fore in the field of Malariology,[4][5] a subject that contributed greatly to Portuguese medicine.

[6][7] Cambournac was born on 26 of December 1903 in Rio de Mouro,[1] Portugal and was educated at the University of Lisbon and graduated in 1929.

[3] He then specialised in tropical medicine, hygiene, and malaria between 1934 and 1943 while joining missions that examined health care in Portuguese colonies.

[2] Cambournac was made a professor of hygiene at the Tropical Medicine Institute, Lisbon in 1946.

[2] He won the Léon Bernard Foundation Prize in 1978 for outstanding service in the field of social medicine.