Sarah Aiosa and her work in the presidency

Sarah Aiosa, whose father is Ecuadorian and whose mother is Puerto Rican, is fulfilling one of her dreams because she wanted to work in healthcare since she was a child.

He studied biology and received a master’s degree in public health, with a focus on underrepresented groups in cancer clinical trials.

These first ones experiences determined their career and enabled her to reach the position she holds today: the first Latina woman to assume the presidency Merck for Latin America.

“Feel privileged to be able to represent women like me leading positionsand I work as an ally and mentor to create conditions for all underrepresented groups to achieve their professional goals,” she said exclusively for Panama America.

Aiosa also mentions the challenges of this position, as the last three years have been very challenging for many reasons, all over the world.

“My leadership style is adaptive and, in order to put it into practice, it was crucial to listen to people and create the ideal environment for them to reach their full potential,” says Aiosa.

“He sense of cooperation and the affiliation we were able to build among our teams laid the groundwork for the establishment relationship significant and show value for our participants external. Thanks to this listening and ours adaptabilitywe were able to transform the challenges into occasionsdespite uncertainty and ambiguities”, he adds.

On the other hand, to be knowledgeable about the subject healthmentions the challenge facing this sector in Latin America.

Latin America It is a very diverse and dynamic region, where health affects Economic progress and the social 650 million people who inhabit it. A big challenge is financing, share.

“Unfortunately, the entire region lags behind the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average for health investment as a percentage of GDP (3.5% compared to 6.6% in the OECD),” he adds.

For this reason, he believes that it is important to review the determination of priorities in the entire region healthcare financing and consider this investment as an element development and progress economy.

It is necessary to establish a multi-sectoral cooperationwhich gathers Public sector, private and Civil societyin order to build resilient health economies that are sustainable and adequately funded, he says.

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Sarah Aiosa enjoys reading fiction, practicing yoga, and traveling with her husband, Robert, and their three children, Alex and Michael, 14, and Maddie, 12. She also climbs slides in adventure parks with her daughter.