Gisela Alonso Domínguez PhD
Chemist with a doctorate in biological sciences. President of Cuba’s Environmental Agency, she has represented Cuba at several UN Environmental Conventions and in 2012 was appointed to the UN High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Dr Alonso was awarded the Carlos J. Finlay National Scientific Order in 2001 and Cuba’s National Environment Prize in 2014.
Raúl Bohorques Rodríguez MD
Nephrologist. Dr Bohorques is full professor and senior researcher at Cuba’s Nephrology Institute in Havana. His main areas of research are nutrition and renal disease, diabetic renal disease, and peritoneal dialysis.
Ismael Clark Arxer MD MS
Clinical biochemist. Dr Clark is president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences and an associate professor at the University of Havana. He was awarded the Carlos J. Finlay National Scientific Order. He wrote the chapter on Cuba in UNESCO’s Science Report 2010.
Gonzalo González Hernández PhD
Educator. Professor and researcher at the Center for Environmental Education Studies at the Pedagogical University of Villa Clara, where Dr González coordinates the master’s program.
Manuel Hernández-Triana MD PhD Biochemist. Senior researcher and full professor of biochemistry at the Medical University of Havana. From 1984 to 2014, Dr Hernández headed the biochemistry and physiology department at Cuba’s Nutrition and Food Hygiene Institute in Havana.
Paulo L. Ortiz Bultó MS PhD
Mathematician. A senior researcher at the Climate Center of Cuba’s Meteorology Institute in Havana, Dr Ortiz specializes in modeling relationships between climate and health, particularly infectious and vector-borne diseases. He is principal investigator of Cuba’s climate-and-health project and a consultant on an analogous project of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Amalia Peix González MD PhD DrSc
Cardiologist. Dr Peix is deputy director for research and coordinates the nuclear medicine working group at the Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery Institute in Havana. Her research concentrates on imaging techniques for cardiac insufficiency; myocardial perfusion and acute coronary syndrome in women; and detection of silent ischemia in diabetics.
Victoria C. Ribot Reyes MD MS
Dual specialist in family medicine and psychiatry, with master’s degrees in bioethics and healthy aging. Dr Ribot coordinates the addictions program at the Interdisciplinary Community Health Complex in Havana’s Marianao Municipality.
Alina Rivero Valencia MS
Geographer. Senior scientist at the Climate Center of Cuba’s Meteorology Institute in Havana, her research on climate and health includes a project on climate variability and air quality in relation to chronic non-communicable diseases in western Cuba.
Daniel Whittle JD
Attorney specializing in environmental and energy law; senior attorney and director of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)’s Cuba Program. He has actively promoted scientific exchange and environmental dialogue and cooperation between the United States and Cuba. He directs EDF’s work on SOS Pesca, a community-based initiative to promote sustainable fisheries on Cuba’s southern coast.
