Alejandro Cravioto (born 1947) is professor of microbiology and public health in the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.^[1]

He was born in Mexico, the son of physician and nutritional scientist Joaquin Cravioto and Cristina O'Farrill.^[2]

Cravioto received his MD degree in 1973 from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He completed a Residency in Pediatrics at the National Institute of Pediatrics, Mexico City, 1973-1976. He also received a Diploma in Tropical Public Health with distinction in 1977 from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In 1981, Cravioto earned a PhD degree from the University of London.^[3]

He is a noted expert on child health and diarrheal diseases.^{[3] [4]}

He has had more than 200 papers published in international journals and has authored two textbooks.^[5]