Hélène Sparrow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hélène Sparrow

Polish microbiologist and public health pioneer

Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1891

Place of Birth: Boguslav, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 13-Nov-1970

Profession: physician, professor, biologist, academic, microbiologist, head of laboratory

Nationality: Poland, France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Hélène Sparrow (5 June 1891 – 13 November 1970) was a pioneer in world public health, a medical doctor and microbiologist.
She was noted for her work to control typhus in Poland after the First World War and then leading national programmes of vaccination against diphtheria, scarlet fever, spotted fever and relapsing fever in Poland and Tunisia into the 1960s.