PhD in Health Promotion. Member of the International Advisory Board of The Lancet Global Health and member of the Steering Committee of the Thematic Working Group on Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings of Health Systems Global Health.
We should welcome the opportunity to decentralize the PAHO from Washington, D.C., reimagining its core functions to better address the priorities of the countries where it is most needed.
Inequities in the region are evident from conception, with factors such as limited access to health care disproportionately affecting lower-income countries and vulnerable populations
With climate and environmental changes, the epidemic vocation of mosquito-borne diseases is growing, and they can be transmitted to more people and reach countries where they were not found before.
Co-author Carole Faucher
Without school infrastructure or physical access to schools, students have fewer opportunities to create the relationships through which they can flourish.
Co-author Irene Torres
Coastal stress" implies the loss of natural habitats or the deterioration of their quality. But its long-term consequences, in the most affected countries, can have incalculable economic and social impacts.
