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As part of MEDICC’s Reproductive Health Initiative,
we’re proud to put this issue of MEDICC Review in your
hands. It represents the publication’s first year of
concerted effort to promote publication of findings on reproductive
health in Cuba, by sponsoring a research and writing competition
on this important public health theme.
The competition, co-sponsored by the Cuban Journal of Public
Health (Revista Cubana de Salud Publica),
attracted 15 entries from several Cuban provinces—all
original and unpublished research pieces. The jury reserved
the right to give priority to articles from authors who are
health practitioners in the field of women’s and reproductive
health, and in particular in primary health care services.
The jury itself was composed of the editors of MEDICC
Review and the Cuban Journal of Public Health,
as well as a series of distinguished Cuban professionals,
including:
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Dr. Luisa Alvarez
Chief Researcher, Center for Human Reproduction (PAHO/WHO)
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Dr. Radamés Borroto
Director, Post-Graduate Medical Training Center
(now merged with the National School of Public Health)
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Dr. Juan J. Ceballos
Full Profesor and member, MEDICC Academic Council
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José A. de la Osa
Author and health journalist
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Dr. Yodalia Leyva
Psychiatrist, National Center for Sex Education
(CENESEX)
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Dr. Alcides Lorenzo
Head, National Group of Experts on Primary Healthcare
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Dr. Rosaida Ochoa
Epidemiologist and Director, National Center
for STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention
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Dr. Jehová Oramas
Internist and Deputy Director, National Medical
Sciences Information Center
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Dr. María del Carmen Pría, MPH,
Biostatistician, Associate Profesor, National Public Health
School
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Aida Rodríguez, PhD,
Economist, Full Profesor and Head of Research, National
Public Health School
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Nereyda Rojo, PhD, MSS,
Sociolgist, Full Profesor, National Public Health School
The Grand Prize went to Child
and Adolescent Gynecological Services in Priary Care
by a collective of authors headed by Dr. Miguel Lugones Botell,
OB-GYN at the 26 de Julio Community Polyclinic in
Havana. (Also see MR Interviews...
in this issue.)
Additional prizes were awarded to Beatriz Macias Peacok of
the Toxicology and Miomedicine Center of Santiago de Cuba
for her Hormonal Contraception
Cohort Study; Dr. Jorge Luis Sell Lluveras
of the Endocrinology Institute in Havana for Sexual
Function and Sex Hormones in Women with Premature Menopause;
Dr. Ricardo Batista Moliner of the Health Tendencies Analysis
Unit of the Public Health Ministry for Living
Conditions and Maternal and Child Health;
and Dr. Giselda Sanabria Ramos of the National School of Public
Health for Cost Estimates
for Pregnant Women Related to Attendance at Prenatal Care
Services in Three Havana Municipalities, Year
2000.
To all of them our heartfelt congratulations!
In upcoming issues of MEDICC Review,
you’ll be seeing the results of the second year of MEDICC’s
research and writing competition—this time co-sponsored
by Cuba’s Sexology and Society Journal, and
thematically expanded to include all themes related to women’s
health.
We would like to say a special note of thanks to the General
Service Foundation for its support of MEDICC’s
Reproductive Health Initiative—which includes the annual
Women’s Health Elective and the Women’s Health
Dossier—and to the Cuban Society of Family
Medicine, for donating the prizes for the reproductive
health research and writing competition. 
Gail A. Reed, MS
Editor
Michele Frank, MD
Associate Editor
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