Jorge A. Berlanga-Acosta DVM MS PhD
Veterinarian with a master’s degree in medicine and comparative pathology and a doctorate in pharmacology. Dr Berlanga is a member of Cuba’s Academy of Sciences and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles on tissue repair and wound healing. He is also first author of the US patent for the drug Heberprot-P.

Rene Loewenson PhD (Med) MScCHDC
Medical epidemiologist. Dr Loewenson directs the Training and Research Support Center EQUINET, a leader in studies of health equity in Zimbabwe/East and Southern Africa. Internationally for over 30 years, she has been a source for technical and policy advice on issues pertaining to health systems, primary health care, public health, the social determinants of health and health equity

Juan Felipe Medina-Mendieta MS
Informatics engineer with a master’s degree in pedagogical applications of new technologies. Mr Medina is assistant professor in the mathematics department and head of mathematical statistics at the University of Cienfuegos, Cuba. His research focuses on mathematical modeling of agricultural and epidemiological processes and the intersection of teaching, mathematics and technology.

Yamila Puig-Peña MD MS
Physician specializing in microbiology with master’s degrees in public health (nutrition) and infectious diseases. Dr Puig is a microbiologist at Cuba’s National Institute of Hygiene, Epidemiology
and Microbiology (INHEM) where she is associate professor and
researcher, focusing on antimicrobial resistance in commonly-consumed
foods.

Ramón Rivero-Pino MS PhD
Sociologist with a doctoral degree in the field and a master’s degree in community development. Dr Rivero is a member of Cuba’s doctoral defense tribunal in sociology and of the country’s academic committee for doctoral and master’s degree programs. He has been awarded the annual prize of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. He is currently a professor at the Peninsula State University of Santa Elena in Ecuador.

Ailed Elena Rodríguez-Jiménez MD MS
Physician with dual specialties in family medicine and cardiology, and a master’s degree in satisfactory longevity. Dr Rodríguez works in the coronary intensive care unit of the Camilo Cienfuegos Provincial Hospital, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba. Her research areas include risk factors and predictors of myocardial infarction with a particular focus on the predictive value of ECG test results.

Danay Saavedra-Hernández MD MS PhD
Physician with dual specialties in family medicine and immunology, a master’s degree in infectology and a doctorate in medical sciences. Dr Saavedra is a researcher in the Clinical Immunology Department of the Molecular Immunology Center, as well as associate professor and adjunct researcher at the Medical University of Havana, Cuba. Her research focuses on immunosenescence and the relationship between chronic low-grade inflammation and cancer.

Gisela María Suárez-Formigo MD
Physician specializing in immunology. Dr Suárez is assistant professor and associate researcher at the Medical University of Havana, Cuba, where her studies focus on immunosenescence in healthy individuals and in late-stage cancer patients, and on therapies for patients with non-small–cell lung cancer. She is a member of the Cuban Society of Immunology.