J. JAIME MIRANDA, MD, MSc, PhD, FFPH, is Research Professor at the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, and Director of the CRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, both at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima, Peru. His work brings together epidemiological, public health and health policy aspects of physical and mental chronic non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries with an emphasis on obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and depression.
In 2012, he was elected as Fellow of Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. In 2014, he was listed as one of the 30 scientists under 40 who are redefining science in Latinamerican region. He was also the elected co-chair of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases committee for hypertension control from 2012 to 2015. Dr. Miranda trained in medicine at UPCH and earned a PhD in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK).
