Irene Torres

Irene Torres, PhD, is the technical director for Fundacion Octaedro and fellow of the Health Determinants, Data and Decision-Making, Rockefeller Foundation and Boston University Commission.

A nurse prepares a dose of China's Sinovac Biotech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during a mass vaccination program for the elderly, at the Bolivarian Technology Institute in Guayaquil, Ecuador April 15, 202
Governance

Time for a Health Check: the Reality of Vaccine Rollout in Ecuador

by Irene Torres, Daniel Romero-Alvarez, Daniel López Cevallos, Bernardo Cañizares

Immunizing nine million people in one hundred days will take careful strategy

Soldiers on the Ecuadoran side of the border with Colombia, in Tufino, Ecuador, after their government announced the closure of borders to all foreign travelers due to coronavirus on March 15, 2020. The photo shows a border crossing with a large sign reading, Ecuador, and several soldiers in the frame. REUTERS/Daniel Tapia
Governance

Coronavirus in Ecuador

by Fernando Sacoto, Irene Torres

Pandemic highlights need for a future broad, multidisciplinary, independent commission to inform science-based decisions