Academic degrees 

Master of Science in Public Health, (MSPH), Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Bélgica.

Current position at CIIPEC

Project Coordinator

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Professional experience and areas of expertise

Since 2020 Guillermo is researcher at CIIPEC. He coordinates a participatory action research project in collaboration with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. From 2014 to early 2020, he was health director of the municipality of Villa Nueva, Guatemala. A core part of his tasks was to articulate 'Health-in-All Policies' and to improve the primary health care system in urban setting through participatory processes. Between 2008-2013, he worked at PAHO/WHO Guatemala, as an advisor for social determinants of health and the ´Healthy Cities´ initiative, leading and contributing to several programs in Guatemala and Latin America. He began his career in public health in 2000, promoting small-scale projects at the community level with an environmental and inter sectoral approach. Since 2016 Guillermo holds a master's degree in public health from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, in addition to a previous master's degree in development (2011) and a BA in environmental science (2004), both from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. As of 2018 he is a member of Health Systems Global and Emerging Voices for Global Health.