Our team is conformed by a highly dynamic and motivated interdisciplinary group of researchers with wide backgrounds (including but not limitted to lawyers, psychologists medical doctors, microbiologist, ethicist, and philosophers) working in the field of research ethics and public health ethics in the Latin American region.

Advisory Team

The advisory team will actively seek to review and provide timely comments and recommendations directed towards assuring that the outcomes of the project are reached. 

  • Roxana Lescano, Perú (Attorney) past Coordinator of the Peruvian IRB Network, current member of the Peru National COVID-19 IRB and member of the Program Committee for the World Conferences of Research Integrity, May 2022, South Africa.
  • Eddy Pérez Then (MD, M.P.H., M.S.P.H., MBA, Ph.D.). Advisor for COVID-19 to the Minister of Health of the Dominican Republic. Director of the School of Medicine of the Dominican University O&M (O & MED), and the President of the research company Two Oceans in Health.
  • Prof. Trudie Lang. (PhD) Professor of Global Health Research, Chair of The Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. Director and Principal Investigator at The Global Health Network, University of Oxford, UK.
  • Dr Nicole Feune De Colombi, (MD  MPH) Scientific Coordinator of the COVID-19 Research Implementation and Knowledge Hub at The Global Health Network, University of Oxford, UK.

Organizations invited as co-organizers

The COMISCA constitutes the political instance of the Central American Integration System, SICA, whose purpose is to govern the Regional Health Sector; the identification and prioritization of regional health problems, which are jointly addressed through the Agenda and the Central American Health Plan.