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Dr Durán is a native of eastern San-tiago de Cuba and his early medical career began in this mountainous re-gion, where he also headed provin-cial prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. He went on to become rector of the Medical University of Santiago de Cuba and provincial health direc-tor. Later in Havana, Dr Durán was director of medical education and vice minister at the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). Abroad, he served as advisor to Angola's Minister of Health, and on his return, as deputy director of Cuba's Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK). Dr Durán has been "battle-tested" over the years by his involvement in stemming dengue epidemics and other infectious dis-ease outbreaks, good preparation for his current position as National Direc-tor of Epidemiology. Today, his is the voice and the face on the 11:00 AM briefing carried daily by Cuban television, reporting the latest data on the un-folding COVID-19 pandemic globally, in the Americas and.
杜兰博士是古巴圣地亚哥东部人，他的早期医学职业生涯始于这个多山地区，他也曾担任该省预防和治疗艾滋病毒/艾滋病的负责人。他后来成为古巴圣地亚哥医科大学的校长和省级卫生局长。后来在哈瓦那，杜兰博士担任医学教育部主任和公共卫生部副部长（MINSAP）。在国外，他曾担任安哥拉卫生部长的顾问，回国后担任古巴佩德罗·库伊里热带医学研究所（IPK）副主任。多年来，杜兰博士参与了遏制登革热疫情和其他传染病爆发的工作，这为他担任国家流行病学主任的当前职位提供了良好的准备。如今，他是古巴电视台每天上午 11 点简报的声音和面孔，报告全球、美洲和全球 COVID-19 大流行的最新数据。
