Each director of the board signs a conflict of interest statement and agrees to abide by PAHEF's conflict of interest policy.

Executive Committee of the Board of Directors

Chair
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale University School of Public Health

Vice-Chair
Luis E. Jáuregui, MD
Associate Director of Medical Education
Chief of the Infectious Disease Division
Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center

Treasurer
Guillermo Birmingham, MSA, CPA
Director of Administration
Pan American Health Organization

Secretary and At-Large Member
Terrence Forrester, MBBS, DM, FRCP, PhD
Professor of Experimental Medicine
Director of the Tropical Medicine Research Institute
University of the West Indies

Foundation President
Don I. Tharpe, EdD
Pan American Health and Education Foundation

Board Members

Ambassador Sally Shelton-Colby, MA
Professor, U.S. Foreign Policy and World Politics
American University

Marcos A. Espinal Fuentes, MD, DrPH, MPH
Manager of Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control
Pan American Health Organization

María Claudia García Gómez, MPA
President
MCG Consultores

Harold Hamana, MA
Senior Vice President Latin America
Regional Group Director 
Edelman Latin America

Gilberto Kac, PhD
Professor of Nutrition Epidemiology
Nutritional Epidemiology Observatory
Josué de Castro Nutrition Institute
Rio de Janeiro Federal University

José F. Parodi, MD, MPH
Professor of Geriatrics and Public Health
Director of the Aging Research Center
University of San Martin de Porres

 

Former Board Members