Advisory Committee, Phase II

Latin American Members

Brazil

Emerson Elías Merhy, MD, PhD
Retired Professor, University of Campinas, São Paulo
Visiting Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Department of Internal Medicine, Graduate Level
Coordinator of the research line “Micro politics of the health work and health care”
Field of specialization: Management and planning of health systems and health care services, health policies, health work, and health continuing education

Chile

Enrique Barilari Davies, MD, MPH
Secretary of ALAMES-Chile
Chief of Subdepartment of Studies
Department of Public Health
Regional Ministerial Secretary of Health, Metropolitan Region
Field of specialization: Primary health care, epidemiology, and equity in health

Alfredo Estrada L., MD
Investigation and Training Group in Social Medicine - GICAMS
Field of specialization: Human rights and use of family therapy in the treatment of victims of state violence

Colombia

Mauricio Torres, MD
ALAMES Coordinator
Field of specialization: Work process and health

Saúl Franco Agudelo, MD, PhD
Professor National School of Public Health
Field of specialization: Health and violence

Cuba

Francisco Rojas Ochoa, MD
National School of Public Health
Field of specialization: History of public health and social medicine, and medical education

Ecuador

Jaime Breilh, MD, PhD
Health & Research Advisory Center - CEAS
Field of specialization: Health and epidemiology, critical epidemiology and research methodology

Mexico

Asa Cristina Laurell, MD, PhD
Former Secretary of Health, Mexico City Government
Field of specialization: Theoretical and methodological approaches of the social medicine, working process and health, and health and social policies

Ángeles Garduño, PhD
Director of the Master's in Social Medicine Program
Autonomous Metropolitan University - Xochimilco - Mexico D.F.
Field of specialization: Heath and genre, labor and health, and health and violence

Members from the U.S.

Matthew Anderson, MD, MSc
Montefiore Family Health Center
Editor of on-line journal Social Medicine (www.socialmedicine.info)

Holly Shipp Buchanan, MLn, MBA, EdD
Associate Vice President for Knowledge Management & Information Technology
Director of the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Professor of the School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center
The University of New Mexico

Antonio Ugalde, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Texas - Austin
President of Salud y Fármacos

Howard Waitzkin MD, PhD
Professor of Department of Sociology, Family and Community Medicine, and Internal Medicine
University of New Mexico