Dionisio Herrera-Guibert

Role: Senior Programme Committee
Affiliation: Tephinet

Dionisio Herrera-Guibert, MD, is director of TEPHINET, a program of The Task Force for Global Health. In this role, Dr. Herrera-Guibert oversees a global network of 63 Field Epidemiology Training Programs that works to improve the capacity of developing countries to detect changes in disease and injury patterns and respond appropriately.

Prior to this, Dr. Herrera-Guibert was the academic director of the Spain Field Epidemiology Training Programs and a member of the Alert Unit for Rapid Response at the Institute of Health Carlos III Ministry of Health and Consume in Madrid. He also served as field epidemiology senior at the Institute of Public Health of Autonomous Community of Madrid, where he was a consultant to the field epidemiology training program. Other positions held by Dr. Herrera-Guibert include consultant to the Minister of Health and assistant doctor of family medicine at the Ministry of Public Health, Havana, Cuba, and as a medical doctor, head of residents, and specialist of community and family medicine at the National Reference Center for Primary Attention in Cuba. He is an associate professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, and has spent several years as a medical practitioner in Zambia and Guinea-Bissau.