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Dr. Mauricio Maza is the Regional Advisor for Cancer Prevention and Control at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
Dr. Maza is a Salvadoran public health physician with extensive experience in the region working on cancer, and specifically assisting countries with cervical cancer programs, and collaborating with PAHO for many years. He has served as Executive Director of Basic Health International (BHI), a non-profit organization that works in the elimination of cervical cancer and, among other things. Dr. Maza also led the successful HPV testing program in El Salvador, working closely with the Ministry of Health and assisting several countries in the region with their HPV testing programs. He has been a UICC youth leader for cancer control, an NCI Center for Global Health apprentice in outreach and implementation research, a beneficiary of the IARC / WHO 50 FOR 50 initiatives, supporting leaders cancer research team from low- and middle-income countries, and a member of the Central American Leadership Initiative, part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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