2010, Number 3
Shaping a research agenda to solve health problems Niviola Cabrera, MD. Director of Science and Technology, Ministry of Public Health, Cuba
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Niviola Cabrera is from Santa Isabel de las Lajas, a small town in central Cuba with a mystique all its own as the birthplace of the island’s legendary crooner, Benny Moré. Dr Cabrera studied medicine in her home province of Cienfuegos before completing a residency in epidemiology in 1981 and working at the provincial hygiene and epidemiology center. Her move to Havana came with an appointment as Deputy Director for Research at the National Institute for Workers Health; in 1996, she transferred to the Ministry of Public Health’s Science and Technology Division, which she has directed for the last fi ve years.