Dr Vilma Irazola

Medical Doctor, Instituto de Efectividad Clinica y Sanitaria (IECS); Institute for Clinical Effectivenness and Health Policy (IECS), Argentina

Dr Gidio Agaba is a Physician in the Department of Medicine at Uganda’s National Referral Hospital (Mulago Hospital). He also lectures both graduate and undergraduate students in management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) with emphasis in Hypertension and diabetes at Makerere University College of Health Sciences.

Dr Irazola is a cardiologist and epidemiologist. She is the Director of the Department of Research in Chronic Diseases of the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS) and Director of the South American Center of Excellence for Cardiovascular Health (CESCAS), which operates at IECS in Buenos Aires.

Her research is focused on health promotion and prevention of chronic diseases, and includes epidemiological studies as well as intervention and implementation studies in Argentina and Latin America. She is the principal investigator of the CESCAS I study, a prospective population-based cohort for study of cardiovascular disease and risk factors, which includes the prospective follow-up of 7,500 adults in the Southern Cone of Latin America. She has conducted implementation research in the fields of hypertension, cardiovascular risk, diabetes, food systems and cancer, including randomized clinical trials on behavioral interventions and other research designs. Since 2015, she is also independent researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and appointed consultant of the National Ministry of Health.

Dr Irazola is the Deputy Director of the Master's Degree in Clinical Effectiveness at the University of Buenos Aries and co-director of the courses on Outcome Research and Advanced Statistical Analysis. She is Visiting Professor at the Cross-Continental MPH, College of Global Public Health at New York University (NYU), and at the Lown Cardiovascular Health Program at the School of Public Health, Harvard University.