Dimitri Dmitrievich Venediktov (russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Венедиктов) was the Deputy Health Minister of the
USSR from 1965 to 1981 under
Ministers of Health Boris Petrovsky
Boris Petrovsky (27 June 1908 – 4 May 2004) was a Russian general surgeon who was the health minister of the Soviet Union in the period 1965–1980.
Early life and education
Petrovsky was born in Yessentuki on 27 June 1908. His parents were V ...
and
Sergei Burenkov.
[Дмитрий Венедиктов — Заведующий кафедрой медицинской информатики и управления при Президиуме РАМН — Кто есть Кто в медицине. Ktovmedicine.ru (2017). at ] In this role, he was instrumental in the
campaign to eradicate smallpox and supplying vaccines for the program He was also involved in organizing the
Conference of Alma-Ata which was foundational in the field of
public health.
[WHO , Consensus during the Cold War: back to Alma-Ata. Who.int (2017). at]
He was elected to the
Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union
The Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union (russian: Съезд народных депутатов СССР, ''Sʺezd narodnykh deputatov SSSR'') was the highest body of state authority of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991.
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from 1989 to its dissolution.
He currently serves on the
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, focusing on information storage in healthcare.
Awards
Venediktov received two
Orders of the Red Banner of Labour and one
Order of the Badge of Honour amongst other awards.
References
Living people
Soviet public health doctors
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Academicians of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences
Smallpox eradication
Academicians of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
1929 births
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