Board
The Pan American Health and Education Foundation is led by a board of directors comprised of health experts, business leaders, and academics. The board of directors has valuable experience in administering health-related grants and in cross-border grant making.

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
Benjamín Caballero, MD, MSc, PhD
Professor 

Bloomberg School of Public Health 
Johns Hopkins University

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

Treasurer
Ambassador Sally Shelton-Colby, MA
American University

Secretary
Fernando Mendoza, MD, MPH
Professor and Chair
Stanford University School of Medicine

At-Large
Patricia P. Barry, MD, MPH
Adjunct Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine 
Eastern Virginia Medical School

José Ignacio Santos, MD, MSc
Professor and Head of the Infectious Diseases Unit 
National Autonomous University of Mexico

President
Edward L. Kadunc, MPH
Pan American Health and Education Foundation


Board Members

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

Guilhermo Birmingham, MSA, CPA
Director of Administration
Pan American Health Organization

Margaret Catley-Carlson
Chair of the Crop Diversity Team 
Chair of the Water Security Council 
World Economic Forum

Terrence Forrester, MBBS, DM, FRCP, PhD
Professor of Experimental Medicine and Director of the Tropical and Medicine Institute
University of the West Indies

María Claudia García Gómez, MPA
Executive Director
Brigard & Urrutia Lawyers and Brigard & Castro Intellectual Property Lawyers 

Harold Hamana, MA
Senior Vice President 
Edelman Latin America

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

Martha B. Peláez, PhD 
Director of the Healthy Aging Initiative 
Health Foundation of South Florida

Arnold Simonse, DSW, JCD
Professor of Social Work
Mountain State University

Ricardo Uauy, MD, PhD

Professor of Public Health Nutrition
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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

Jose F. Parodi, MD, MPH

Professor of Geriatrics and Public Health
Director of the Aging Research Center
University of San Martin de Porres of Peru

FORMER BOARD MEMBERS

 
 
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