Bolaji S. Aregbeshola MScPH

Economist with a master’s degree in public health. Mr Aregbeshola is a researcher with the Department of Community Health & Primary Care, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria. His research focuses on health systems, health policy, health financing, economic evaluation, health system governance, human resources for health and universal health coverage.

Enrique Beldarram Chaple MD PhD

Epidemiologist. Full professor at the Medical University of Havana and senior researcher and research director, Cuban National Health Care Telecommunications Network and Portal (INFOMED) in Havana. Dr Beldarraín’s research and publications on a range of topics in communicable and non-communicable disease control, as well as history of Cuban public health and medicine, have earned him a number of national science awards.

Helena J. Chapman MD MPH PhD

Physician specializing in public health. Dr Chapman trained in medicine at the Iberoamerican University in the Dominican Republic. While working on her manuscript for this issue, she completed her doctorate in public health (One Health) at the Department of Environmental and Global Health, University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions. She is a research scientist in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA. Her research uses qualitative methods to evaluate public health practices for infectious disease prevention and control.

Alfredo D. Espinosa-Brito MD PhD

Internist. Trained in Cuba and Slovakia, Dr Espinosa-Brito is a staff physician at Cienfuegos’ Gustavo Aldereguía Lima University Hospital and distinguished professor at the Medical University of Cienfuegos, where he founded the residency in internal medicine. His clinical activities, research and teaching activities over his more than five-decade career have garnered him multiple provincial, national and international awards, including recognition as a public health leader by PAHO/ WHO in 2010. He is a distinguished member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences.

José D. Hurtado de Mendoza-Amat MD PhD DrSc

Pathologist. Dr Hurtado de Mendoza-Amat is full professor and senior researcher at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Clinical–Surgical Teaching Hospital in Havana. He is the coordinator of Cuba’s automated anatomical pathology registry, SARCAP, and led a major study using autopsy results to evaluate premortem diagnosis.

Dihadenys Lemus MS PhD

Microbiologist. Dr Lemus is assistant professor and senior researcher in the Department of Bacteriology and Mycology of the National Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Mycobacteria Reference and Research Laboratory at Havana’s Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute. Her research focuses on antituberculosis drug resistance.

Juan de Jesús Llibre Rodríguez MD PhD DrSc

Internist with a doctorate in medical sciences. Dr Llibre is full professor of medicine at the Medical University of Havana, where he heads the Alzheimer Studies Center at the University’s Finlay-Albarrán Medical Sciences Faculty. He is president of the Cuban Alzheimer Association and board member of Alzheimer’s Disease International and its 10/66 Dementia Research Group.

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