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Editors-in-Chief 

Ana Lorena Ruano, PhD, University of Bergen, Norway
Ana Lorena Ruano is a researcher at the Center for International Health at the University of Bergen, Norway. 
She received her doctoral education at Umeå University in Sweden and was trained as a sociologist at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. Dr Ruano’s work uses qualitative methods and a human rights-approach to the study of equity in health, indigenous health, maternal health, health system strengthening, participation, and accountability in low and middle-income countries. 

Daniel Maceira, PhD, National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
New Content ItemDaniel Maceira is an Argentine citizen with a PhD in Economics from Boston University and research fields in health economics and industrial organization. He is a Professor at the Economic Department, National University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, an Independent Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), a Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of State and Society (CEDES), and Director of the MBA-Health of the University of San Andrés. He also develops teaching activities in several Postgraduate Programs in Health Economics and Public Health Policy in Argentina and the Latin American Region, such as the Master Program in Public Policies at the University Torcuato Di Tella and the Master Program in Design and Implementation of Public Policies at FLACSO, the Latin American University in Social Sciences.
Maceira has collaborated with a wide array of institutions, such as the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), UNICEF, The World Health Organization, the Pan-American Health Organization, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), USAid, the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), the Gates Foundation, The World Bank, the Global Development Network, the Global Fund for HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis; the Inter-American Development Bank; the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI Alliance), among others. He has numerous national and international peer review publications and coordinated many research projects and technical assistance initiatives in developing countries, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2016 Maceira was elected Board Member of Health Systems Global (HSG), the international society in health programs and systems research, where he holds the chair of The Americas until October 2024.

Pablo Gaitán-Rossi, PhD, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
New Content ItemDirector at the Research Institute for Equitable Development from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
He has a PhD in Social Welfare by Boston College and was trained as a Sociologist and Psychologist. He is a member of Mexico’s National Registry of Researchers, First level. Collaborates as an evaluation consultant with the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative from the World Bank. Interested in health systems, social determinants of health, food and water insecurity, aging, mental health, and implementation science.


 

Associate Editors
Basil Hassan Aboul-Enein, EdD, MSc, MPH, MA, FACN, FRSPH, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA, and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Dickson Amugsi, PhD, African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya
Blake Angell, PhD, The George Institute for Global Health, Australia
Suraj Bhattarai, MSc, Global Health Research and Medical Interventions for Development (GLOHMED), Nepal
Mingsheng Chen, PhD, Nanjing Medical University, China
Lana Chikhungu, PhD, University of Portsmouth, UK
Fiona Dobbie, PhD, MPhil, MA(Hons), University of Edinburgh, UK    
Thomas Druetz, PhD, University of Montreal, Canada
Michael Falster, BPsych (Hons), MBiostat, PhD, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Nelsensius Klau Fauk, S.Fil., MOD, MHID, MSc, PhD, Torrens University Australia, Australia
Peter Hangoma, PhD, University of Zambia, Zambia
Shiho Kino, PhD, Institute of Science, Japan
Alison Krentel, MSc, PhD, University of Ottawa, Canada
Robinson Karuga, MSc, PhD, LVCT Health, Kenya
Ramesh Kumar, MSPH, MBBS, PhD, Health Services Academy, Pakistan
Hailun Liang, PhD, Renmin University of China, China
Jin-Ding Lin, PhD, Mackay Medical College, Taiwan
Marco Liverani, MSc, PhD, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Li Lu, PhD, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
James Macinko, PhD, University of California, USA
Azwihangwisi Mavhandu-Mudzusi, PhD, University of South Africa, South Africa
Devaki Nambiar, PhD, George Institute for Global Health, India
Jacob Novignon, PhD, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Frank Osei, PhD, University of Twente, Netherlands
Bryan Patenaude, ScD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, USA
Veincent Christian Pepito, MSc, School of Medicine and Public Health, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Angel Phuti, PhD, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Parul Puri, PhD, The George Institute for Global Health India, India
I Gusti Ngurah Edi Putra, PhD, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Rolando Enrique Peñaloza Quintero, PhD, Pontifical Xaverian University, Colombia
Amutha Ramadas, PhD, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia
Sudha Ramani, PhD, John Hopkins India Private Ltd, India
Krishna Rao, PhD, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Hannah Rayment-Jones, RM, MSc, PhD, King's College London, United Kingdom
Efrat Shadmi, PhD, University of Haifa, Israel
Leiyu Shi, DrPH, MBA, MPA, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Ashish Singh, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Prashant Kumar Singh, PhD, MPS, MA, ICMR-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, India
Judy Yuen-man Siu, BSSc, MPhil, PhD, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Mohammad-Reza Sohrabi, MD, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Sivan Spitzer-Shohat, PhD, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Prashanth Srinivas, MBBS, MPH, PhD, Institute of Public Health Bengaluru, India
Fiona Stanaway, MBBS (Hons), MPH, PhD, University of Sydney, Australia
Gang Sun, PhD, Southern Medical University, China
Manuela Villar Uribe, PhD, World Bank Group, USA
Mireya Vilar-Compte, PhD, La Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
Qing Wang, PhD, Shandong University, China
Apichai Wattanapisit, MD, Walailak University, Thailand
Sara Willems, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium
Taddese Zerfu, PhD, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 


Editorial Board
Sudhir Anand, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Gerald Bloom, MD, Institute of Development Studies, UK
Lars Borgquist, MD, PhD, Linköping University, Sweden
Lars Olov Bygren, MD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Chee-Khoon Chan, ScD, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Wei-Ching Chang, PhD, University of Alberta, Canada
Tung-Liang Chiang, ScD, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Paul Dolan, MSc, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
François Eisinger, MD, PhD, High Council for Public Health, France
Luisa Franzini, PhD, University of Maryland, USA
John Furler, PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia
Gustavo Estrada Galindo, DSc, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala
Juan Gérvas, MD, PhD, CESCA, Spain
Lucy Gilson, PhD, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Sally S. Guttmacher, PhD, New York University, USA
Neil Holtzman, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
John Lynch, PhD, University of Adelaide, Australia
Michael Katz, MBA, Experience Management Institute, USA
Ichiro Kawachi, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA
Vikash R. Keshri, MBBS, MD, The George Institute for Global Health, India 
Michael Marmot, PhD, University College London, UK
Adam Oliver, PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Raymond Pong, PhD, Laurentian University, Canada
Luis Rajmil, MD, MPH, PhD, Institut Municipal d'Investigacao Medical, Spain
Débora Tajer, PhD, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina


Founding Editor-in-Chief

Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University, USA (deceased 2011)

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