David Tejada
{{Short description|Peruvian health figure}}{{Infobox Officeholder
|name = David Tejada
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|office = Minister of Health of Peru
|term_start = May 12, 1989
|term_end = October 3, 1989
|predecessor = Luis Pinillos Ashton
|successor = Paul Caro Gamarra
|president = Alan García
|office2 = Minister of Health of Peru
|term_start2 = July 28, 1985
|term_end2 = June 29, 1987
|predecessor2 = Carlos Bazán Zender
|successor2 = Ilda Urizar de Arias
|president2 = Alan García
|office3 = Deputy Director General of the World Health Organization
|term_start3 = 1974
|term_end3 = 1985
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1929|2|27}}
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|11|3|1929|2|27}}
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|alma_mater = National University of San Marcos
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Brasília
Center for Higher National Studies
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David Alejandro Tejada de Rivero (February 27, 1929 – November 3, 2018) was a Peruvian physician, surgeon, public health advocate and government official. Tejada served as a Deputy Director General of the World Health Organization from 1974 until 1985. He then served as Minister of Health of Peru from 1985 until 1987 and again from May 1989 to October 1989 during the administration of President Alan García.{{cite news|title=Falleció David Tejada de Rivero, ex ministro de Salud |url=https://elcomercio.pe/politica/fallecio-david-tejada-rivero-ex-ministro-salud-noticia-574276 |work=El Comercio (Peru) |date=2018-11-04 |accessdate=2018-12-01 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104212112/https://elcomercio.pe/politica/fallecio-david-tejada-rivero-ex-ministro-salud-noticia-574276 |archivedate=2018-11-04 |url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Fallece exministro de Salud David Tejada de Rivero |url=https://andina.pe/agencia/noticia-fallece-exministro-salud-david-tejada-rivero-731671.aspx |work=Andina (news agency) |date=2018-11-04 |accessdate=2018-12-01 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105121714/https://andina.pe/agencia/noticia-fallece-exministro-salud-david-tejada-rivero-731671.aspx |archivedate=2018-11-05 |url-status=live}} He is the only Peruvian doctor to be honored and recognized as a "hero of public health in the Americas" by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
Tejada was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1929 to David Tejada Mercado and María de Rivero. He graduated as a surgeon from the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of San Marcos. In 1957, Tejada received a master's in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States.
Tejada died in Lima on November 3, 2018, at the age of 89. His survivors included his grandson, former Congressman Sergio Tejada.