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Born in Steinbach, Kreis Giessen, Germany in 1939, Helmut Kloos immigrated to the United States, earning his BA and MA in geography at California State University Fresno and his PhD in medical geography at the University of California Davis. This included training in epidemiology, public health, community health, nutrition, and medical anthropology.Kloos held various academic positions in the USA, Ethiopia, and Brazil, teaching medical geography, research methods, and resources and conservation courses for eight years at Addis Ababa University He also lent his expertise on human behavior in schistosomiasis transmission and snail control using plant molluscicides as a consultant to the World Health Organization. He also worked as a consultants with USAID and the ministries of health in Ethiopia, Kenya, an Egypt.He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Science and has been a reviewer for the Ethiopian Journal of Health Development, the Ethiopian Medical Journals, Lancet, and the American journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Collaborative research with Ethiopian colleagues and students in epidemiology, medical geography, environmental health, health services accessibility and utilization, and traditional resulted in the publication of eleven books, including Health, Disease, and Disasters in Ethiopia: Five Decades of Research and over 300 scientific articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Since his retirement, Kloos has been mentoring Ethiopian graduate students in their research.

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