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INFORME ALTERNATIVO SOBRE LA SALUD EN AMERICA LATINA15. Charles L. Briggs, of the United States of America, PhD in anthropology, professor and director of the Iberianand Latin-American Studies Center of the University of California, San Diego; author with Richard Baumanof Voices of Modernity (2003); author of numerous publications in the field of critical anthropology inhealth; at the moment, fosters a fundamental research line on the historical role of communication media facinghegemony in the field of health. Clara Mantini-Briggs,Venezuelan, doctor, coordinator of the NationalPlan of Struggle Against Dengue of the Environmental Direction and Sanitary Inspection of the Health andSocial Development Department (Venezuela); director of the Foundation for Applied Research Orinoco,which performs scientific research and programs oriented to the improvement of health conditions in DeltaAmacuro state (Venezuela).16. Arturo Campaña, Ecuadorian, doctor, ex-professor of medical psychology at the Central University ofEcuador, Master of Social Psychology (University of Leningrad); author of books and publications on conceptualand methodological innovation in the field of mental health; scientific director of the CEAS (Health Studiesand Advisement Center); researcher of the international health certification of the fair and ecological flowerprogram; visiting professor at universities of Latin America and North America.17. Elizabeth Bravo, member of Acción Ecológica (Ecological Action), which is part of the International Departmentof the Resistance to Petroleum Network Oilwatch; coordinator of the Network for a Latin AmericaFree of Transgenics; member of the Academic Council of the Third World Ecological Studies Institute;professor at the Politécnica Salesiana University; Bachelor of Biology, PhD in ecology of microorganisms. Sheis member of the Scientists Independent Panel concerned with genetic engineering, the Advisement Councilof the magazine "Biodiversity, Supports and Culture", the Political Ecology Magazine, and the Directing Councilof the Tropical Forests World Movement.18. Miguel San Sebastián, (MD, PhD) Spanish, has worked for 12 years in health primary care with indigenouscommunities of the Amazonic region in Ecuador Currently, he teaches public health and epidemiology at thePublic Health International School of Umea, Sweden. Anna-Karin Hurtig, (MD, DrPH), Swedish doctor withten-year experience in health primary care in Sweden, Nepal and Ecuador; at present, teaches public healthand epidemiology at the Public Health International School of Umea, Sweden. Aníbal Tanguila, health promoterof the Sandi Yura Association. He belongs to the indigenous group Naporuna located in Orellana province,Ecuador; has occupied charges of responsibility within his community in various occasions, as well asat the level of the FCUNAE Federation. His community, Corazón del Oriente, has suffered for several yearsthe contamination produced by petroleum exploitation. Santiago Santi has frequently been health promoterof the Sandi Yura Association, and its leader, as well as his community’s and the FCUNAE Federation; hebelongs as well to the ethnic group Naporuna. In his community, El Edén, petroleum is also exploited. TheHealth Promoters Association "Sandi Yura" is an organization of indigenous health promoters of the Amazonicregion of Ecuador. It is part of the Natives Union Communes Federation of Ecuadorian Amazonic Region(FCUNAE), and since 1994 has been legally recognized by the Department of Public Health of Ecuador. Atpresent, it counts with 100 promoters distributed in 70 communities, who provide diverse health primarycare services to a population of 12.000 people.272