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1888 Andrija Štampar was born. Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (Brodski Drenovac, 1st September 1888 - Zagreb, 26th May 1958). He graduated medicine in Vienna in 1911. He was first a municipal doctor in Nova Gradiška, and then a health counselor of the Social welfare board of the National council in Zagreb. From 1919 to 1930 he was the head of the Department of hygiene at the Ministry of public health in Belgrade. In that period, he established a health service in the former Yugoslavia, organizing 250 hygiene facilities (the Central hygiene institute in Belgrade, the National health school in Zagreb, the Institute for malaria in Trogir, a series of national health centers, bacteriological stations, antituberculotic, antiveneric and antitrahomic ambulances. With his program he tried to make a doctor into a social worker and a nations teacher, economically independent from patient, equally accessible to all levels of the population, and to strengthen preventative medicine against curative. His efforts to carry out the socialization of the doctors and pharmacists services were faced by the great resistance of private doctors and class organizations. After the introduction of the 6 January Dictatorship, he was removed in 1930 and retired next year. Since then he worked as an expert of the Hygienic Society of League of Nations in european countries and the United States, and in 1933-36 he stayed in China, where he reorganized public health care. Although he was elected as a professor of social medicine at the Zagreb School of Medicine in 1931, the authorities did not want to confirm his election until 1939. He was elected as a dean of that faculty in 1940 and at the University of Zagreb he founded the Office for Social and Health Protection of the students. After the II. World War he was the head of the National health school in Zagreb (which now bears his name), dean of the School of Medicine (where he reformed the teaching) rector of the University of Zagreb (1945-46), president of JAZU (1947-58), founder of the Institute for work hygiene. In 1946, he was elected as first vice-president of the UN Economic and Social Council and a president of the Interim Commission, which until 1948 when the World Health Organization (WHO) Constitution was ratified performed its functions . He chaired the first World Health Assembly of WHO in Geneva in 1948. He then studied public health and medical education in Afghanistan, Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia as a WHO delegate.