EDITORIAL BOARD

Iramis Alonso
Editor, Juventud Técnica,Cuba

Neil Arya BASc MD CCFP FCFP
Director, Office of Global Health
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Western University, Canada

Rifat Atun MBBS MBA FRCGP FFPH FRCP
Professor of Global Health Systems
Director, Health Systems Cluster
Harvard University School of Public Health, USA

Michael Bird MSW MPH
Public Health Consultant, Kewa Pueblo Health
Board Urban Indian Health Commission
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Peter Bourne MD MA
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK

Jaime Breilh MD MSc PhD
Director, Health Department
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador

Paulo M. Buss MD MPH
Director, FIOCRUZ Center for Global Health & International Relations, Brazil

Pastor Castell-Florit MD PhD DrSc
Director, National School of Public Health, Cuba

Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez PhD
Senior Researcher
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain

Maria Cecilia de Souza Minayo MS PhD
Professor of Sociology
National School of Public Health, Brazil

Timothy De Ver Dye MS MA MPA PhD
Professor, OB–GYN, Pediatrics, Public Health Sciences and Medical Informatics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, USA

Leith L. Dunn PhD
Senior Lecturer & Head, Institute for Gender
& Development Studies, Mona Unit, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Paul C. Erwin MD DrPH
Dean, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, USA

Foluso Fakorede MD
Cardiologist & CEO, Cardiovascular Solutions of Central Mississippi, USA

Margarita Fernández MA MS PhD
Executive Director, Caribbean Agroecology Institute, Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont, USA

Lowell Gerson PhD
Professor Emeritus of Family & Community Medicine
Northeast Ohio Medical University, USA

Tee L. Guidotti MD MPH DABT
Consultant, Occupational & Environmental Health and Medicine, Canada

Jean Handy PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, USA

Barbara J. Hatcher PhD MPH RN FAAN
Associate Professor
George Mason University College of Nursing & Health Sciences, USA

Raúl Herrera MD MS PhD DrSc
Distinguished Professor, Medical University of Havana
Chair, National Nephrology Group, Cuba

Eve J. Higginbotham SM MD
Vice Dean of Diversity & Inclusion, University of
Pennsylvania Perelmen School of Medicine, USA

Ricardo Hodelín MD PhD
Neurosurgeon and Chair, Medical Ethics
Medical University of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Member, UNESCO Bioethics Network

C. William Keck MD MPH FACPM
Professor Emeritus, Family and Community Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, USA

Ann Marie Kimball MD MPH FACPM
Senior Consulting Fellow
Chatham House Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs
Strategic Consultant in Global Health,
Rockefeller Foundation, USA

Barry Kistnasamy MBChB Mmed
Head, Occupational Health, National Department of Health; Coordinator, OHS Covid-19 Workstream,
South Africa

Patrick Kuma-Aboagye MB-BCH MPH
Deputy Director and Head, Reproductive and Child Health Department
Ghana Health Service, Ghana

Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew MD MEd MPPM FACOG
Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer for Highmark Health and Allegheny Health Network, USA

Linh Cu Le MD MSc PhD
Executive Vice Dean
College of Health Sciences VinUniversity, Viet Nam

Noni MacDonald MD MSc FRCPC FCAHS
Professor of Pediatrics and Computer Science
Dalhousie University, Canada

Pedro Más MD PhD DSc
Full Professor, Medical University of Havana
Senior Researcher, Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute, Cuba

Joaquín Morante MD
Pulmonologist and Urgent Care Specialist
Jacobi Medical Center, USA

F. Javier Nieto MD PhD
Dean Emeritus, College of Public Health & Human Sciences
Oregon State University, USA

Vivian Noriega MD MS PhD
Professor, National School of Public Health, Cuba

Marta Núñez PhD
Sociologist and Consulting Professor on Gender Studies
University of Havana, Cuba

Carlos Orantes MD
Nephrologist, El Salvador

Peter Orris MD MPH
Professor and Chief, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, USA

Jorge Pérez MD MS
Advisor to the Director and Full Professor
Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute,
Cuba

Teddie Potter PhD RN FAAN FNAP
Clinical Professor/Coordinator Doctor of Nursing Practice in Health Innovation and Leadership
Director of Planetary Health
University of Minnesota School of Nursing, USA

Steve Reid BSc(Med) MBChB MFamMed PhD
Director, Primary Health Care Directorate
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Laetitia Rispel BSc(Nursing) PG Dip BScHonsMSc(Med) PhD
Professor of Public Health
South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chair
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Patricia Rodney RN MPH PhD
Partners in Health, Education and Development, USA

María Isabel Rodríguez MD
Health and Education Advisor to the President of the Republic, El Salvador

José Rubiera PhD
Vice Chair, World Meteorological Association RAIV Hurricane Committee, Americas
Researcher & Member, Cuban Institute of Meteorology’s Scientific Council
Full Professor, University of Havana, Cuba

Lizet Sánchez Valdés MS PhD
Researcher, Molecular Immunology Center and Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute, Cuba

F. Douglas Scutchfield MD FACPM FAAP
Peter P. Bosomworth Professor of Health Services Research and Policy
University of Kentucky Colleges of Public Health and Medicine, USA

María de los Ángeles Serrano Jerez MS
Director, National Aquarium
President, Cuban Oceanography Society, Cuba

Augusto Sola MD
Neonatologist, St Jude’s Hospital and Children’s
Hospital, Orange County, California, USA

Pedro Más MD PhD DSc
Full Professor, Medical University of Havana
Senior Researcher
Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute, Cuba

Pedro A. Valdés-Sosa MD PhD
Deputy Director, Neuroscience Center, Cuba

Luis F. Vélez MD MPH PhD
Director, Program Development,
Evaluation and Quality Improvement DePelchin Children’s Center, USA

Jessica Vorstermans PhD
Assistant Professor, Critical Disabilities Studies
School of Health Policy and Management
York University, Canada

Greg Watson
Director of Policy and Systems Design
Schumacher Center for a New Economics, USA

Suwit Wibulpolprasert MD
Senior Advisor on Disease Control
Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

Paul Worley MBBS PhD
Emeritus Professor of Rural Medical Education
Prideaux Centre for Research in Health Professions Education Flinders University, Australia

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