Deciphering Dengue: The Cuban Experience

C R ED IT :O G O B A R A D O U M B O María G. Guzmán, head of the virology department at the Tropical Medicine Institute Pedro Kourí (IPK), in Havana, Cuba,has more than 20 years of experience working on virology.With her husband and a group of distinguished collaborators, her work on dengue viruses in Cuba and abroad has contributed to knowledge of the pathogenesis, diagnosis, epidemiology, and clinical progression of this disease. She is a member of the Cuban Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS),and director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Viral Diseases.More recently,she has taken over the helm of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and Its Control and become a member of the Foundation Council of the Global Forum for Health Research. She is a member of several expert committees at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO),World Health Organization (WHO), and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR).