Chinese+ Elderly Health  

Mengling Cheng
Research associate and postgraduate tutor at the School of Social and Public Administration of East China University of Science and Technology. Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Humboldt International Fellow. Trained at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (bachelor’s degree), Peking University (master’s degree) and the University of Lausanne (doctorate, best thesis award). She carried out research stays at the Center for Aging at Columbia University and at the German Center for Gerontology. Her work focuses on gerontology, life cycle studies, and cross-national comparisons, analyzing how socioeconomic factors and early adversities influence health during aging.

Andrea Solís Aguirre

Chilean surgeon and master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Chile, with executive training in business administration and management from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and the Diego Portales University. She has led public and private institutions: she directed the Eastern Metropolitan Health Service and the San Juan de Dios Hospital, and was head of the Management Division of the Healthcare Network of the Ministry of Health. She has also been Director of Quality at Clínica Santa María and Medical Director of Clínica Dávila Vespucio. In the academic field, she served as dean of the Faculty of Health of the Universidad Santo Tomás and head of the Department of Public Health of the Universidad de los Andes.

Fernando Morales
Costa Rican geriatrician and dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Costa Rica. Professor at the same institution, he directs the Clinical Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Dr. Raúl Blanco Cervantes National Hospital, a reference center for the elderly in Costa Rica, which he headed for more than twenty years. He earned his medical degree from the University of Costa Rica, completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine in the United States, specialised in Geriatrics and Gerontology at the University of Edinburgh and obtained a master’s degree from the University of Geneva.He founded the Latin American Academy of Medicine for the Elderly and the Costa Rican Association of Geriatricians and Gerontologists. he is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the American Geriatrics Society; member of the European Academy for Medicine of Ageing and honorary academician of the National Academy of Medicine of Costa Rica.