The welcome speech, with a brief description of the nature and organization of ILSI Mesoamerica was delivered by Jorge Arturo Jara Aguilar. Jorge Arturo Jara Aguilar, the founding  President of ILSI Mesoamérica Association, is also the  Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Director for Latin Center Business Unit, Coca-Cola. He´s a Chemical Engineer with 30 years of trajectory in Coca-Cola and the vice-president of Costa Rican Chamber of the Alimentary Industry.

01 - Presentación Sr Jorge Arturo Jara

Natalia Carvajal Sancho, Food Technology Engineer who serves as treasurer of the board of ILSI Mesoamérica Association, and is the regional coordinator of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs for Mondeléz, presented the scope of the nutrition and food technology committee of ILSI Mesoamérica Association.

02 - Natalia Carvajal Sancho

Andrea Suarez Serrano, PhD, works as the General Coordinator of the Center dedicated to water quality and availability research of the National University of Costa Rica (UNA) located in Liberia, Guanacaste. She presented the risks and relationship that exist between water security and food security for the Central America region and the whole world.

07 - Andrea Suárez Serrano

Carmela Velásquez, Food Technology Engineer, is the Director of the National Center of Food Technology of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), coordinator for the Risk Analyses and Biotechnology Committee and Vice President of ILSI Mesoamerica Association. As the committee coordinator for Risk Analysis and Biotechnology, she presented the goals of this committee in pathogens and surveillance for food safety.

04 - Carmela Velasquez

Daniel Rojas has a Master in sciences in  Human Movement of the National University of Costa Rica (UNA). He´s currently working in research and as an assistant to Professor Randall Gutiérrez, member of the board of ILSI Mesoamerica Association. Daniel presented the advances of the Human Movement committee in connection with research in work environmen and the creation of the Central American Observatory of Applied Research in Children and Adolescents.

03 - Daniel Rojas

Juan José Baldi is an advanced graduate student of Master Degree Pharmacy surveillance in the Netherlands and currently conducting research in UCIMED Center for Pharmacy surveillance (CEDIFAR). He´s part of Pharmacy surveillance committee and presented the first goals for this group.  Surveillance and capacity building for stakeholders are the most important issues to start with the activities on the region.

05 - Juan José Baldi

Dr. Rhona Applebaum is the President of ILSI Global. She presented ILSI like a global opportunity to improve public health. After the committee’s presentations, she expressed her appreciation for the advance and good work of the Mesoamérica Chapter.

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