Dr. Cesar Chelala receives the 1st Prize in Journalism

We are happy to announce that Dr. Cesar Chelala, The Middle East Times International’s foreign correspondent, has won a 1st Prize in Journalism from the Argentine Association of Journalists (ADEPA). The award is considered the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize for Argentina. He is also a winner of an Overseas Press Club of America award.

As an international public health consultant, Dr. Chelala has conducted health-related missions for United Nations agencies in over 50 countries worldwide. He has also carried out missions for Capital Development Fund, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, The Mexican Foundation for Health, World Education, USAID, The Pew Charitable Trusts and The Carnegie Corporation of New York. 

 In addition to our magazine, he has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Harvard International Review, Le Monde Diplomatique, Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), The Japan Times, The China Daily, The Swiss International Review, Los Angeles Times, The Moscow Times, The Gulf Times (Qatar), The Daily News Egypt, The News International (Pakistan), Asahi Shimbun (Japan), among many other newspapers and magazines. He writes regularly for El Pulso Argentino and is the U.S. correspondent for Radio Universidad (Argentina).

His medical and scientific articles have been published by The Lancet, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Molecular and General Genetics, Annals of Internal Medicine (USA), the British Medical Journal, and Proceedings of the U.S. Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Chelala lives with his wife in New York. His only daughter lives in Washington, D.C.

The "Middle East Times Int'l" extends warmest congratulations to Dr. Cesar Chelala, and we wish him the best for the future.