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Abstract
Cristian Morales, an economist by training, has dedicated his career to improving health and health equity in the Americas through his work with PAHO/WHO. This has taken him from hurricanes, earthquakes and epidemics in Haiti to PAHO's Washington DC offi ces, where he was instrumental in achieving consensus on a resolution aiming for universal health-coverage plus access-approved by all governments in the Americas. In 2015, he was appointed PAHO/WHO Permanent Representative in Cuba, and in 2018 to the same post in Mexico.
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Uphold the highest standards of ethics and excellence, publishing open-access articles in English relevant to global health equity that offer the best of medical, population health and social sciences research and perspectives by Cuban and other developing-country professionals.