Professor Alexander Joseph () is an Indian entomologist and former Professor of Community Medicine at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College. He played a key role in eradicating malaria from the Indian state of Kerala in 1965, also offered technical assistance to control malarial resurgence of the disease in Valiathura in 1994.
The "Fact Sheet On Mosquito control" of the Indian Medical Association was done under his guidance.He is presently the Technical Consultant to the Departments of Health and Local Administration, Government of Kerala on malaria and other parasitic diseases . He is presently the Director (Academics) at the Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram.He was a former member of the Malankara Syrian Christian Association,the supreme parliament and representative body of the Indian Orthodox Church.
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