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Bernal Pulido, Luis Gabriel

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Principal Lecturer

Division of Community Medicine and Public Health Practice

  • MD (El Bosque University – Colombia), Family Medicine (Javeriana University – Colombia), MPH (UNSW – Australia)
phone 3917 6816
email lbernal@hku.hk
orcid ORCID: Bernal Pulido, Luis Gabriel
Biography

Dr Luis Gabriel Bernal Pulido is Principal Lecturer at the School of Public Health and the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care of the University of Hong Kong.

Before joining the University, he worked for almost 20 years in clinical practice in primary care organisations in Colombia, particularly serving marginalised and migrant populations. He has been faculty of several Schools of Medicine and Health Sciences in Colombia for nearly 2 decades, where he was also head of Family Medicine residency programmes.

He has served in the Colombian Government as National Director of Human Resources for Health at the Ministry of Health; member of the National Public Health Strategic Committee that prepared and implemented the response of the Colombian health sector to the COVID-19 pandemic; and Representative of the Intersectoral Commission for Human Resources for Health in the National Intersectoral Comission of Quality Assurance in Higher Education of Health Disciplines at the Ministry of Education.

He has worked as international consultant for the Results for Development Institute, the World Bank, the Pan American Health Organization, and the United States Agency for International Development, on topics related to the strengthening of Primary Health Care and Human Resources for Health, in Colombia, Latin-America, Africa and Asia-Pacific, facilitating communities of practice, assessing the performance of primary health care at country level, and developing health facility performance assessment tools. 

Apart from his contributions on policy design and implementation in primary health care and human resources for health, his expertise extends to the field of immunisations, having led clinical teams to plan and conduct epidemiological and clinical studies for the development of new candidate vaccines to prevent and control infectious diseases of public health interest, such as Dengue, Zika, C. difficile and Genital Herpes in Latin-America and the United States of America.

Dr Bernal received his Medical Doctorate from El Bosque University (Colombia), his Family Medicine Specialty degree from Javeriana University (Colombia), and his Masters in Public Health from the School of Population Health at the University of New South Wales (Australia).


Selected Publications
  1. Bernal LG. Atención en salud de familias desplazadas por la violencia: reflexiones desde la  experiencia docente-asistencial. Universitas Medica. 2009; 50(2):172-183.
  2. Villamizar L, Albis R, Abadía M, Oliveros R, Gamboa O, Alba LH, Bernal LG and Wiesner C. Tamización de cáncer colorrectal en población adulta asintomática: revisión sistemática. Rev Colomb Cancerol. 2010; 14(3):152-168.
  3. Becerra NA, Alba LH, Murillo R, Castillo JS, Cañas A, García-Herreros P and Grupo elaborador de Guías de cesación de tabaco del INC (Páez N, Mosquera C, Camacho N, Gómez J y Bernal LG). Terapias alternativas para la cesación de la adicción al tabaco: revisión de guías de práctica clínica. Gaceta Médica de México. 2012; 148:457-466.
  4. Alba LH, Murillo R, Castillo JS and Grupo elaborador de Guías de cesación de tabaco del INC (Becerra NA, Cañas A, García-Herreros P, Páez N, Mosquera C, Camacho N, Gómez J y Bernal LG). Intervenciones de consejería para la cesación de la adicción al tabaco: revisión sistemática de la literatura. Salud Pública de México. 2013; 55:196-206.
  5. Alba LH, Murillo R, Becerra NA, Páez N, Cañas A, Mosquera C, Castillo JS, Camacho N, Gómez J, García-herreros P and Bernal LG. Recomendaciones para la cesación de la adicción al tabaco en Colombia. Biomédica. 2013; 33(2):186-204.
  6. Brettenhofer M and Bernal LG. Social determinants of health (Inequities) – A European snapshot and stimuli for action. Revista Salud Bosque. 2013; 3(1):59–73.
  7. Coronel D, Rivas E, Ojeda J, Perroud AP, Zambrano B, Cortés M, Bernal LG, Áñez G, Kennedy S, Izquierdo-Bello Á, Sáfadi MA, Arredondo-García JL, Figueroa R, Pires P, Parra-Saavedra MA and Noriega F. Vigilancia del embarazo y enfermedad Zika: una propuesta metodológica de vigilancia para una prueba de eficacia de la vacuna Zika. Rev Latin Infect Pediatr. 2019;32(2):61-68.
  8. Bernal LG, Villar M, Cafagna G and Bayona J. Adjusting primary health care to respond to COVID- 19: Lessons from Colombia. 2020. Available in: https://www.improvingphc.org/blog/2020/11/17/adjusting-primary-health-care-respond-covid-19-lessons-colombia
  9. Rivas E, Ojeda J, Garcia-Rivera EJ, Rivera DM, Arredondo JL, Medina EL, Aguirre F, Bernal LG, Chen Z, Petit C, Guranathan S,   Heinrichs JH, Áñez G and Noriega F. Prospective surveillance of Zika virus at the end of the Americas’ outbreak: An unexpected outcome. Front Trop Dis. 2022;3:1027908.
  10. Folsom A, Kinter A, Satzger E, Babalola L, Mathurin T, Lagrada L, Nyaggah M, Bernal L and Bernal O. PHCPI, Results for Development and JLN Brief: Transforming Primary Healthcare delivery and financing through Primary Care Networks. 2023. Available in: phcpi_community_of_practice_learning_brief_english-min.pdf

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