Daniel F. Gallego-Pérez, MD, DrPH, is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Program on Integrative Medicine at the University of North Carolina and an Associate Researcher at the National University of Colombia. His research focuses on Primary Health Care and Health Systems strengthening, evidence and information synthesis and dissemination, and Therapeutic Pluralism (Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Health and Medicine). He has served as a primary care physician and public health practitioner in a variety of settings. He has been a consultant for the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), first at the Nicaragua Country Office, later at PAHO headquarters in Washington DC, and the PAHO/WHO's Latin American and the Caribbean Center for Health Sciences Information in São Paulo, Brazil. He has also consulted the WHO. He co-founded the TCIM Americas Network and the Virtual Health Library on TCIM.