CIIPEC Partners  |  Local and Regional Allies  |  External Advisory Committe

CIIPEC is a Center of Excellence coordinated by INCAP, with the technical support of RAND Corporation and the Public Health Schools ofJohns Hopkins, Michigan and Harvard Universities; dedicated to the improvement of the Ministries of Health and Central America and the Dominican Republic Universities capacities for prevention and control of nutrition-related Chronic diseases (e.g. type II diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer and osteoporosis).

CIIPEC is been initially funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and United Health Group (UHG), both US institutions, as part of an initiative based on the establishment of Centers of Excellence to fight chronic diseases in developing countries.


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A.1 Steering and coordination:

Institute of Nutrition for Central America and Panama –INCAP- 
- Manuel Ramírez-Zea, MD PhD - CIIPEC General Coordinator
- Ana Victoria Román, PhD - CIIPEC Institutional Coordinator
- Sandra Murillo, MSc, PhD - Fogarty Program Coordinator
- Gabriela Mejicano, MSc - CIIPEC Academic Coordinator 

RAND Coorporation
- Homero Martínez, MD PhD
- Gery Ryan, PhD

Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
- Benjamin Caballero, MD PhD
- Youfa Wang, MD, PhD

School of Public Health, Michigan University
- Eduardo Villamor, MD DrPH

School of Public Health, Harvard University
- Walter Willett, Ph.D
- Hannia Campos, PhD 

A.2 Technical Cooperation Coordination in the Countries:

- Belize
http://new.paho.org/blz/

- Costa Rica
http://www.cor.ops-oms.org

- Dominican Republic
http://www.ops.org.do

- El Salvador
http://www.ops.org.sv

- Guatemala
http://new.paho.org/gut

- Honduras
http://new.paho.org/hon

- Nicaragua
http://www.ops.org.ni

- Panama
http://new.paho.org/pan

- Mexico
http://www.mex.ops-oms.org/

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 B. LOCAL AND REGIONAL ALLIES

B.1 Mesoamerican Region and Dominican Republic

- Belize
Ministry of Health
Faculty of Nursing, Allied Health and Social Work 

- Costa Rica
School of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Costa Rica University
Postgraduate Educational System, Costa Rica University

- Dominican Republic
Faculty of Health Sciences, Autonomous University of Santo Domingo
Secretariat of Public Health and Social Aid

- El Salvador
School of Nurtrition, University of El Salvador
Ministry of Health

- Guatemala
Faculty of Medical Sciences, San Carlos de Guatemala University

- Honduras
Factulty of Medical Sciences,National Autonomous University of Honduras
Secretariat of Health

- Mexico
Nutrition School, Science and Arts University of Chiapas
Research Center on Nutrition and Health, National Institute of Public Health

- Nicaragua
Polytechnic Institute of Health (POLISAL), National Autonomous University of Nicaragua 

- Panama
School of Dietetic and Nutrition, University of Panama

B.2 Regional Entities:

- Representatives of Central America Superior University Board –CSUCA- (for its initials in Spanish)
- Representatives of the Steering Board of INCAP
- Representative of the Health Secretariat of Mexico 

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C. EXTERNAL ADVISORY COMMITTE:
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