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Hernan Rosenberg, Ph.D. is Senior Advisor in Planning and Research Coordination of the PanAmerican Health Organization. The PanAmerican Health Organization was founded in 1902 because of the diseases which arrived on ships carrying goods.
Discusses the PanAmerican Health Organizations origins as a part of the Navy. It receives a budget of $400 million every two years - roughly half of which is used for regulatory purposes and half is for betterment of health.