Ana Lorena Ruano

Ana Lorena Ruano is a sociologist by training and holds a PhD in Public Health from Umeå University, in Sweden. Currently, she is a researcher at the Center for International Health (CIH) at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Dr Ruano is the leader of the project ‘Strengthening Agency & Learning across Health Systems in the Americas (SALHSA). Her work focuses on equity in health and health system governance, including participation, social accountability, and legal empowerment.

The target populations for her work include groups that have been traditionally excluded from decision making processes o policy processes in health, like indigenous peoples. Additionally, she serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal for Equity in Health (IJEQH).