EAPSEC organization and people

The EAPSEC team in Chiapas employs a nimble, horizontal organizational structure in which two senior community health educators/facilitators work alongside the medical director and program administrator to train community health workers and support local capacity building efforts. In addition to managing the organization's finances and overseeing logistical planning, the program administrator also serves as EAPSEC's expert trainer in traditional Mayan medicine and the use of medicinal plants. The two community health educators/facilitators oversee the clinical and health promotion work at EAPSEC clinics, where community health workers and medical staff provide primary care services to neighboring poor communities.

Medical Director – Gabriel García Salyano
Finances and Logistics – Dagmar Castillo Roblero
Coordinator of Amatan clinic – Julio Quiñones Hernández
Coordinator of Honduras and Belisario Dominguez clinics – Leonel Gónzalez Ortíz

Boston-based Chiapas support

EAPSEC receives programmatic support from a Program Manager and Program Coordinator in Boston. Clinical oversight and assistance are provided by PIH's Medical Director and two resident physicians who work regularly in Chiapas.

Program Manager – Arachu Castro, PhD, MPH
Program Coordinator – Cate Oswald, MPH
Clinical Oversight – Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, PIH Medical Director
Clinical and training support – Michael Herce, MD, and Daniel Palazuelos, MD. Drs. Herce and Palazuelos are both residents in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities Global Health Equity Residency Program.