Shaping a research agenda to solve health problems: Niviola Cabrera, MD Director of Science and Technology, Ministry of Public Health, Cuba

摘要

Niviola Cabrera is from Santa Isabel de las Lajas, a small townin central Cuba with a mystique all its own as the birthplace ofthe island’s legendary crooner, Benny Moré. Dr Cabrera studiedmedicine in her home province of Cienfuegos before completinga residency in epidemiology in 1981 and working at the provincialhygiene and epidemiology center. Her move to Havanacame with an appointment as Deputy Director for Research atthe National Institute for Workers Health; in 1996, she transferredto the Ministry of Public Health’s Science and TechnologyDivision, which she has directed for the last fi ve years.Most recently, she headed the Cuban organizing committeefor the Global Forum for Health Research’s 2009 meeting, Innovatingfor the Health of All, held in Havana.