Luis Gabriel Cuervo

Unit Chief, Research, Promotion and Development, Pan American Health Organisation, Washington, USA

Luis Gabriel Cuervo is a Medical Doctor with a MSc in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics from the Universidad Javeriana and qualified as a Specialist in Family Medicine at the Universidad del Valle, Colombia. He brings first hand experience as producer and user of evidence for health care in the clinical, academic, and research fields working in various communities in rural and urban environments in Colombia. He developed his career in knowledge management with emphasis in summarising evidence, implementation, and enhancing the use and production of evidence in the developing world. From his position as Clinical Editor at BMJ Clinical Evidence he emphasised evidence-based programmes and access to developing countries and worked closely with the World Health Organization and International NGOs including the Cochrane Collaboration and INCLEN. More recently he has coordinated the response of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) to the 2004 Mexico Declaration on Health Research. In September 2005 Luis Gabriel Cuervo joined PAHO/WHO when he was appointed Chief of the Research Promotion & Development Unit. As such, he serves to as Secretary to PAHO/WHO’s Advisory Committee on Health Research and Ethics Review Committee.