Dr. Luiz Augusto Galvão
Head of the Special Program on Sustainable Development and Health Equity at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Dr. Luiz Augusto Cassanha Galvão, a Brazilian national, received his medical degree at the "Faculdade de Medicina do ABC" in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1977. Dr. Galvão's career at PAHO started in 1984 as a short-term consultant at the Pan American Center for Human Ecology and Health (ECO) in Mexico, and in 1991, he became a permanent staff member in the position of Environmental Epidemiologist of the Center. In 1994 he was appointed Regional Advisor on Environmental Quality. In March of 2003, he was appointed Acting Area Manager of the Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Area (SDE), and as of 1 September 2003 he was appointed as Area Manager of the Special Program on Sustainable Development and Health Equity at the Pan American Health Organization. Dr. Galvão works on programs relating to Children’s Environmental Health, Climate Change and Health, Health Equity, Consumers’ Health and MDGs and the Post-2015 Development Agenda.