WHO Director-General LEE Jong-wook confers with PAHO Director Mirta Roses during the 45th Directing Council meeting in Washington, D.C., in September. (Photo © Armando Waak/PAHO)

PAHO Director Mirta Roses is named honorary professor by Manuel Burga Díaz, rector of San Marcos University in Lima, during Roses’ official visit to Peru in July. (Photo © PAHO Peru)

(From l.) U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson speaks with Minister of Health of Argentina Ginés González García and Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico Johnny Rullán at PAHO’s 45th Directing Council in September. (Photo © Armando Waak/PAHO)

José Antonio Sermeño, secretary of the Central American Integration System (SICA), discussed his organization’s work in health at PAHO headquarters in September. (Photo © Armando Waak/PAHO)

Fernando Lolas (left), head of PAHO’s bioethics program, received an honorary doctorate from the Medical School of San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, in July. (Photo © PAHO Peru)