The PAHO Workplace for the Caribbean Subregion is happy to welcome Dr Juan Manuel Sotelo as the brand new Director of the Subregional Workplace in Barbados. Dr Sotelo, an skilled worldwide public well being skilled, succeeds Dean Chambliss, who was just lately reassigned as Director, Shared Providers Initiative.
Dr. Sotelo is nicely acquainted with PAHO/WHO, having managed the political, technical, and managerial elements of PAHO/WHO operations in Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. He’s an skilled Director of nationwide and worldwide packages throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean. Moreover, he has led the Division of Exterior Relations, Useful resource Mobilization, and Partnerships at PAHO.
His predecessor, Chambliss, expressed his confidence in Dr Sotelo’s means to proceed advancing PAHO’s achievements in public well being throughout the area.
“I imagine that collectively, PAHO and Caribbean Member States have made important strides in advancing public well being aims throughout the area, enhancing entry to high quality care, and fostering partnerships which have strengthened our collective influence. We collectively emerged from COVID and returned to “normalcy”, no small achievement regardless of the myriad public well being challenges we proceed to face,” Chambliss famous.
Dr Sotelo shares this optimistic imaginative and prescient for the long run, expressing his dedication to constructing on the area’s successes and tackling the challenges forward.
“I’m very glad and captivated with my task within the Caribbean, this can be a comeback for me. Dr Jarbas Barbosa, PAHO/WHO Director, has entrusted me with this most necessary mission and I’ll work along with the Caribbean Establishments and companions to make progress in direction of Common Well being,” he asserted.
With Dr Sotelo’s management, the PAHO Workplace for the Caribbean Subregion is poised to proceed its mission of enhancing public well being outcomes and fostering sustainable improvement throughout the area.
