Director of the Caribbean Centre for Health Systems Research and Development and Professor of Biostatistics and Public Health Research at the Faculty of Medical Sciences from The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. He is a Chartered Statistician and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, UK as well as a Registered Public Health Nutritionist and a member of the Global Steering Group of the WHO Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet). He has published over 75 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals with over 4000 citations, in addition to chapters in books/encyclopedia.

Daniel F. Patiño-Lugo, is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Antioquia in Colombia. He is co-founder of the Evidence and Deliberation Unit for decision making (UNED): a research team that uses global and local evidence to inform Colombia’s health policies. Previously, he was the director of the Medical Research Institute of the Faculty of Medicine. Daniel holds a PhD in Health Policy from McMaster University, Canada.

Laura is the Executive Director of Instituto Veredas, a Brazilian NGO dedicated to knowledge translation for public policies. Co-Director of the Latin American and the Caribbean Evidence Hub and Member of WHO EVIPNet Global Steering Committee.