EPISODE #4
15 July 2021 GUESTS: Magaly Blas, Director, Mamás del Río (Mothers of the River) Luis Gabriel Cuervo, Senior Advisor, Pan American Health Organization
Mothers of the Amazon River: a social innovation for health
Exploring how communities, citizen-led organizations and researchers are driving social innovations to improve health service delivery and strengthen health systems.
About this episode
Mamás del Río is a social innovation focused on improving maternal and newborn health in rural regions of the Amazon in Peru and Colombia. This episode explores how communities, citizen-led organizations and researchers are driving social innovations such as Mamás del Rio to improve health service delivery and strengthen health systems.
“I think that before Mamás del Río, my approach was to get the research done. With Mamás del Río I learned that the focus should be the people and that I can use the research to make a difference.”
See Magaly Blas's story here
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Biographies of our host and guests
Luis Gabriel Cuervo
Senior Advisor, Pan American Health Organization
Biography
Dr Luis Gabriel Cuervo is a Colombian family physician and clinical epidemiologist currently based in Washington, DC, where he works as Senior Advisor on Research for Health at the Pan American Health Organization, regional office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. Luis Gabriel advises the Secretariat of the Social Innovation in Health Initiative and supports the secretariat of the Americas Hub. He has extensive experience with capacity development, integrated knowledge translation, the coordination of preventive and community medicine initiatives and Community Oriented Primary Care, doing cross-sectoral work to address environmental and social determinants of health.
Learn more
Mothers of the River Programme
Magaly Blas TEDx talk