Acknowledgments
The Health in the Americas initiative is an Organizational effort of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) stewarded by the Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health (EIH), under the leadership of EIH Department Director Sebastián García Saisó, in collaboration with PAHO departments, PAHO/WHO country offices, and Member States. This publication reflects the collective efforts of many individuals across the Organization and beyond.
Adrienne Cox, Health Analysis and Equity Metrics Unit Chief, coordinated the report with Oscar Martinez and Paulina Pacheco. The coordination team included Anahí Fernández Madrid, Gonzalo Ferreira, Ursula Guthe, Thiago Hernandes Rocha, Naiara Morais Valiati, Claudia Moreno, Oscar Mujica, Ana Ortigoza, Velén Pennini, Antonio Sanhueza, and Patricia Nilda Soliz-Sanchez.
The report was strengthened from the expertise, substantive contributions, and sustained support from the following members of the Health in the Americas Report Working Group: Mónica Alonso Gonzalez, Ashley Baldwin, Roberta de Betania Caixeta, Alex Camacho, Mariela Canepa, Marcela Contreras, Natalia Houghton, Christopher Lim, Dionne Patz, and Hugo Vásquez Vera.
The team gratefully acknowledges the strategic guidance and support of the PAHO Executive Management Team: Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr. (Director), Mary Lou Valdez (Deputy Director), Rhonda Sealey-Thomas (Assistant Director), Kristan Beck (Director of Administration), and Monica Zaccarelli Davoli (Chief of Staff).
The team also acknowledges the valuable insights and contributions provided by the following PAHO colleagues: Sylvain Aldighieri, Ernesto Bascolo, Mauricio Beltran, Daniel Buss, Vania Canuto, Marcelo D’Agostino, Gerry Eijkemans, James Fitzgerald, Vanessa Garcia Larsen, Anselm Hennis, Alexandre Lemgruber, Silvana Luciani, Claudia Pescetto, Tomas Pippo, Maria Luz Pombo-Castro, Maria Eugenia Perez Ponsa, Benjamin Puertas, Ludovic Reveiz, Martha Saboyá, Daniel Salas, Luisa Solano, Oriella Solar, and Ciro Ugarte.
The report benefited from the technical collaboration of Blutitude – Mariana Barraza-Lloréns, Eduardo González-Pier, Ayan Jha, Héctor Peña-Baca, and Sarah Robinson – and of Ryan Race Thompson and Stéphane Verguet, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs – Sara Mazursky, Erica Nybro, and Ruwaida Salem – provided collaborative support in the development, writing, editing, and design of the report.
Sebastian Bauhoff (Inter-American Development Bank), Frederico Guanais (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), Javier Guzmán (Inter-American Development Bank), Rafael Lozano (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation), and Ricardo Pérez Cuevas provided valuable technical feedback that strengthened the report.
Finally, sincere appreciation is extended to all who contributed to this report, including colleagues and partners not individually acknowledged here.