Dr. Jorge Castilla is the senior emergency coordinator for health emergency response at the World Health Organization. During the course of his 30 years of medical humanitarian assistance experience, Castilla has served in a wide array of positions spanning the globe. He worked as a general physician, district health director and regional director of epidemiology in Colombia. He also served as a country medical coordinator for eight humanitarian projects in Sudan, worked on sleeping sickness in Uganda and was the country manager for humanitarian medical programs in Mozambique. Through his work, Castilla helped with refugee reception in Uganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he also helped handle epidemics of cholera, meningitis, measles and Ebola. He has worked with the European Commission for Humanitarian Aid and Médecins Sans Frontières. Castilla has a master’s degree in public health from Tulane University and a medical degree from Universidad del Rosario.