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Marcelo D’Agostino is the Senior Advisor for Information Systems and Digital Health at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. Is a member of the WHO Global Digital Health Advisory Board, the Digital Health COVID-19 Board of the Inter American Development Bank (IDB), and the COVID-19 Simulator of the Harvard medical School and the Georgia tech Institute. Is a System Analyst from Argentina, with a Master’s degree in Information and Knowledge Management from Spain, with postgraduate and specialization courses on: Digital Diplomacy, Designing e-Learning for Health, Global Diplomacy in the Modern World, Global Health Policy, and The Sustainable Development Goals – A global, trans disciplinary vision for the future. He has authored or co-authored online courses on eHealth and Information Sciences, blog posts, several papers on Digital Health, eHealth, mHealth, Information Managements and related areas, and his own Theory about Information. Since 2008 Marcelo D’Agostino has held different managerial positions such as Senior Advisor for Knowledge Management, Director for Knowledge Management and Communications, and Director of Knowledge Management, Bioethics and Research at PAHO. Previously, Marcelo D’Agostino worked at the Pan American Center for Zoonosis, Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992 and in 2002, Marcelo worked in the Latin American Center for Health Science Information based in San Pablo, Brazil.

Contributions to the international community 

Marcelo D’Agostino provided international support and on-site collaboration in all the countries of the Americas, except for the French Guyana, and led the development and approval of three Regional Strategies for the Americas that are endorsed by all Ministries of Health in the Region: 2011: Strategy and Plan of Action for eHealth, 2012: Strategy and Plan of Action for Information and Knowledge Management and 2019: Strategy and Plan of Action for the Strengthening of Information Systems for Health in the Americas. He gave, and continues to give, technical cooperation to other regions of the world, having also carried out missions in the field of digital health and information systems in Europe and Africa.

Contributions to Health Sciences Informatics 

Marcelo D’Agostino led the development and put into action an ehealth/mhealth framework that laid the foundations for the world’s first regional eHealth strategy, thus establishing the bases for the development of networks, projects and initiatives in this area. It has established robust collaboration networks that have allowed the expansion and scalability of medical informatics projects on a continental level. He recently led and implemented a renewed framework for action for information systems for health and is currently leading the development and implementation of 2 frameworks: 1) Artificial Intelligence in Public Health for the Americas, and 2) Digital Transformation of the Health Sector.