Jorge Bacallao Gallestey

Bachelor of Mathematics, has developed a fruitful career as a professor and researcher for more than 40 years.

Full Professor, twice master's degree holder and twice doctorate holder, progressed through all teaching categories starting in January 1973 when, recently graduated from the University of Havana with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, he began working as a professor in the Department of Applied Computing in Biomedicine, later CECAM, founded in 1972 by Professor Dr. José Antonio Presno Albarrán at the Faculty of Medical Sciences.

Throughout his long professional life, always in the health sector and the University of Medical Sciences of Havana, he has collaborated from his position as an excellent teacher and researcher with different national and international institutions. In all institutions through which he has passed in his teaching and research career, he is respected for his performance, creativity, impressive results as an academic, and sound judgment.

His authoritative opinion is always welcome by students and colleagues. He has been a direct mentor to hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students in best practices for scientific research and the proper application of Statistics and Computer Science to the health field. The sobriety in his personal behavior, his mastery of Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese languages, as well as his broad culture are combined with the excellence of his thinking in his ability to state scientific truth that flatters or criticizes in a timely manner and in the least hurtful way.

He has contributed with his intelligence and tenacity to improve the quality of hundreds of research projects in which he has participated; he is an example for students and colleagues in ethical behavior from all angles of academic activity. But at this point it is essential to highlight his likable and deeply Cuban nature, his ability to make people laugh and think with irony and shrewd and creative commentary, as well as his human quality and appreciation for friendship and collegiality.

STUDIES COMPLETED AND DEGREES OBTAINED
Bachelor's degree in Mathematics (University of Havana, 1968-1972).
Bachelor's degree in French Language (French Alliance of Cuba, 1966-1970).
Master's degree in Automated Management Systems (Instituto Superior Politécnico José A. Echeverría, 1974-1975).
Assistant Professor in 1976, Associate Professor in 1984, and Full Professor in 1997 of Biostatistics and Research Methodology.
Master's degree in Medical Education. National School of Public Health, 2003.
Scientific degree of Doctor in Medical Sciences (Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, 1997).
Scientific degree of Doctor in Sciences (Postdoctorate). University of Medical Sciences of Havana. May 2012.

WORK EXPERIENCE
National
Professor of Biostatistics, Research Methodology, Mathematics and other quantitative disciplines at the graduate and undergraduate levels in Basic Medical Sciences, Clinical and Epidemiological Sciences from 1973 to present.
Nine years as technical and methodological advisor at the Center for Applied Cybernetics in Medicine of the Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana (1973 - 1982).
Statistical consultant and researcher in multidisciplinary teams at the Institute of Basic Preclinical Sciences "Victoria de Girón," of the Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana since 1982.
Advisor for two specialist theses of First Degree in Biostatistics, one master's thesis in Applied Mathematics, and one specialist thesis in Morphological Sciences.
Advisor for 20 master's theses in the area of Health Human Resources Training and Medical Education.
Advisor for one doctoral thesis in Social Anthropology.
Technical and methodological advisor for more than one hundred master's theses in basic, clinical, epidemiological, and public health specialties, and more than twenty doctoral theses in Medical Sciences and Health Sciences.
Member of the Scientific Council of the Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana between 1980 and 1990.
Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Basic and Preclinical Sciences "Victoria de Girón" since 1984.
Secretary of the scientific-technical branch of the Scientific Council of the Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana since 1998.
President of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Basic Sciences "Victoria de Girón" since March 1997.
Member of the PAHO/MINSAP Advisory Committee of Cuba.

International
Consultant for PAHO/WHO on the following occasions and with the following terms of reference:
1981: 15 days at UAM-Xochimilco, Mexico City, United Mexican States, for technical advice in the area of social epidemiology and to establish a Collaboration Agreement between this institution and the Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana.
1990: 21 days in Quito, Ecuador, as technical advisor to the National Development Council (CONADE) for data analysis in the Food and Nutritional Surveillance System.
1991: One month in Quito, Ecuador, as technical advisor to CONADE to continue with data analysis of a Food and Nutritional Survey and for methodological proposals regarding the country's nutritional surveillance system.
1992: Three months in Quito, Ecuador, for data analysis of the National Census of Height of children under 5 years old and for the writing, presentation, and launch of one book and two monographs: (a) Malnutrition and socioeconomic conditions in Ecuador; (b) Results of the National Height Census; and (c) Methodological aspects regarding height censuses. During this stay he developed several advisory services to the Maternal-Child Department of the Ministry of Health of Ecuador.
1993: One month in Quito, Ecuador, for the writing, presentation, and launch of a monograph on Methodological Guidelines regarding nutritional surveillance systems and other technical advice to San Francisco University of Quito.
1994: One week at the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) to attend a meeting on nutritional surveillance systems in the Central American Isthmus and to present Ecuador's SISVAN experience in the use of mathematical models for estimating the prevalence of malnutrition at arbitrary disaggregation levels.
1995: One week (May) at a technical meeting as advisor to the PAHO/WHO Food and Nutrition Program, for the proposal of a strategy to address the challenge of increasing obesity under conditions of poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean.
1995: Two weeks in La Paz, Bolivia, for developing a proposal for the development of a school-based nutritional surveillance system.
1995: One month as advisor to the Food and Nutrition Program for: (a) participating in the Advisory Committee meeting of that program; (b) participating in a technical meeting on uses of height censuses; and (c) preparing Program presentations to the Congress of the Latin American Nutrition Society, in Caracas, Venezuela.
1997: Three weeks as consultant to the Food and Nutrition Program to visit two countries in the Region (Jamaica and Costa Rica) in order to make a diagnosis of the state of food and nutritional surveillance systems in the Region and conduct a technical meeting for the presentation of a proposal on the surveillance topic.
1998: One week at the Latin American Center for Perinatology (CLAP), in Montevideo, Uruguay, to participate in a technical meeting on strategies for nutritional surveillance in pregnant women.
1998: One week in La Paz, Bolivia, for the development of an update course on data analysis techniques at the PAHO/WHO headquarters, La Paz, and for advisory services to several intervention and research projects of the Bolivian Institute of High Altitude (IBBA).
1999: Ten days as advisor to the Food and Nutrition Program for processing and analysis of data from a survey on knowledge and perception of obesity in adolescents from 6 countries in Latin America.
1999: Ten days as consultant to the Special Program for Analysis of Health Situation (SHA) to develop a proposal for analysis of basic health data and internal consistency algorithms for information.
1999-2000: Three and a half months as consultant to SHA for technical support in studies of social health inequities.
Consultant for UNICEF on the following occasions and with the following terms of reference:
1990: 15 days to advise Ecuador's SISVAN in the development of a surveillance system for decision-making at disaggregated levels.
1992: One month for the writing of books and monographs on socioeconomic conditions and malnutrition and on height censuses (results and methodological aspects) and for the development of a workshop on techniques for the preparation and temporal monitoring of health goals achievement.
1989: Two and a half months at Humboldt University (Charité) in data analysis of collaborative work with the Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana in the area of evaluation of the physician-patient relationship.
1989: One month in Montevideo, Uruguay, invited to the National Congress of Internal Medicine (for one week for the presentation of a pre-congress course on statistical techniques for automated diagnosis) and for three weeks for technical advice to the Hospital de Clínicas and for presentations of lectures and papers at the Latin American Center for Perinatology and the Uruguayan Medical Union.
1998: Three weeks of advisory services to the Ministry of Health of Bolivia in the development of a set of indicators for a health information system.
1999: Ten days as advisor to the Biostatistics group, in the Department of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine at the Catholic University of Chile.
2000: Winner by competitive examination of a Biostatistician position in the Special Health Analysis Program of the Pan American Health Organization. Washington DC.
2005: Workshop course on Generating Evidence on Social Inequalities in Health (PAHO-WHO; Ministry of Health of the Argentine Republic, Córdoba, Argentina, April 2005).
2006: Workshop course on Generating Evidence on Social Inequalities in Health (PAHO-WHO, Ministry of Health, Lima, Peru, August 2006).
2007: Workshop course on Generating Evidence on Social Inequalities in Health (PAHO-WHO, Department of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health and Sports of the Republic of Bolivia, October 2007).
Temporary consultant for PAHO-WHO in La Paz, Bolivia, in 2006 and 2007 for data analysis of the baseline survey in the Zero Malnutrition Program of the Ministry of Health and Sports of Bolivia.
Temporary consultant for PAHO-WHO for the proposal of a surveillance and monitoring system for the goals of the Zero Malnutrition Program of the Ministry of Health and Sports of Bolivia.
Professor of Educational Research Methodology as part of academic collaboration agreements: La Paz, Bolivia (1998 and 1999), Vitória and São Paulo, Brazil (1999 and 2000), Michoacán, Mexico (2003), Tabasco, Mexico (2005 and 2006)

NATIONAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH ACTIVITY
More than 500 works presented as main author or co-author at scientific events and congresses since 1973.
More than 1,000 scientific-technical advisory services in the area of clinical, basic, and epidemiological medical research.
Mention in the Annual Health Prize competition, 1996, with the articles: "Bayesianism versus frequentism: their respective practical implications in relation to data analysis" and "Critical considerations about tests of significance'"
Central Prize in the Annual Health Prize competition, 1997, with the monograph "Methodological aspects and applications of prediction of performance in higher medical education."
National Prize in the Annual Health Prize competition, 1997, with the monograph "Methodological aspects and applications of prediction of performance in higher medical education."
Central Prize in the Annual Health Prize competition, 1998, with the monographic essay "Meta-analysis as a quantitative modality of systematic review of medical literature: a critical examination."
Member of the jury of the Annual Health Prize competition, 1995, 2007-2013.
Cycle Methodological Aspects in Applied Statistics in Medical Research: I. On the problem of induction and its justification. II. Different perspectives on the nature of probabilities and their influence on statistical inference. III. Hypothesis verification and statistical tests of significance. IV. More on tests of significance: variants, alternatives, and examples of application. (Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, 1994).
Advisor of the thesis titled "Methodological approach to the study of contextual determinants of diseases consequent to atherosclerosis and its risk factors," Ministry of Higher Education Mention in 2012.
Co-author of the National Prize of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba with the research titled: Methodological approach to the study of contextual determinants of diseases consequent to atherosclerosis and its risk factors.
Co-author of the National Prize of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba with the research titled: "Overweight, hypertension, and smoking habit in a cohort of adolescents." 2004-2008.
Advisor of the thesis titled "Methodological approach to the study of contextual determinants of diseases consequent to atherosclerosis and its risk factors." Annual Health Prize. Doctoral Thesis Category. 2013.
Co-author of the Annual Health Prize 2013. Applied Research Category with the research titled: "Methodological approach to the study of contextual determinants of diseases consequent to atherosclerosis and its risk factors."

EXPERIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Temporary consultant for UNICEF in 1990, 1991, 1992 (two occasions) and 1993.
Temporary consultant for PAHO/WHO in 1981, 1985, 1991, 1992 and 1993, 1994 (two occasions), 1995 (3 occasions), 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006 (2 times), 2007 (two times). The consultations have been in the areas of nutritional epidemiology, data analysis, and health situation analysis.
Consultant in Lima, Peru between September 2008 and September 2009 for the Pan American Alliance for Nutrition and Development.
Professor of Educational and Social Research Methodology in Universities and Study Centers as part of institutional collaboration agreements with the Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana and the National School of Public Health in: La Paz, Bolivia; Michoacán, Mexico; Tabasco, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; Ambato, Ecuador; São Paulo, Brazil; Córdoba, Argentina.

AFFILIATIONS
Member of societies and institutions
Cuban Society of Physical-Mathematical Sciences.
Cuban Society of Biostatistics.
Cuban Society of Morphological Sciences.
Latin American Society of Nutrition.
Academy of Sciences of New York.
Cuban Society of Atherosclerosis.

RECOGNITIONS
Mention in the Annual Prize competition of the Ministry of Public Health, 1996.
Prize in the Annual Prize competition of the Ministry of Public Health, 1997.
Prize in the Annual Prize competition of the Ministry of Public Health, 1998.
Grand shared prize in the Annual Health Prize competition, 2007.
Advisor of the thesis "Methodological approach to the study of contextual determinants of diseases consequent to atherosclerosis and its risk factors." Ministry of Higher Education Mention in 2012.
Co-author of the National Prize of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba with the research "Methodological approach to the study of contextual determinants of diseases consequent to atherosclerosis and its risk factors."
Co-author of the National Prize of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba with the research "Overweight, hypertension, and smoking habit in a cohort of adolescents." 2004-2008.
Advisor of the thesis "Methodological approach to the study of contextual determinants of diseases consequent to atherosclerosis and its risk factors." Annual Health Prize. Doctoral Thesis Category. 2013.

PUBLICATIONS
A total of 179 publications in books, scientific articles, and monographs from 1975 to 2013.