GACH
TheHonorary Scientific Advisory Group(Spanish:Grupo Asesor Científico Honorario,acronymGACH) was anadvisory committeecreated by PresidentLuis Lacalle Pouin April 2020, as a support group on the wake of theCOVID-19 pandemic in Uruguay.[1]
On 17 April 2020, when Uruguay showed a significant number of infected people (508),[2]President Lacalle Pou informed that his administration decided to create the group, made up of experts, in order to define methods and studies to advise the government. Its foremost experts were:Fernando Paganini,a mathematician, electrical engineer, and academic from the Latin American Academy of Sciences; Dr.Rafael Radi,the first Uruguayan scientist at theNational Academy of Sciencesof theUnited Statesand president of the National Academy of Sciences of Uruguay; and Dr. Henry Cohen, President of the National Academy of Medicine and awarded as a Master by theWorld Gastroenterology Organisationin 2019.[1]
In mid-June 2021 was published a book namedTodo un país detrásby Pablo Cohen, with all the activity of GACH.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ab"Lacalle Pou anuncia el equipo que planificará" la nueva normalidad "".Diario EL PAIS Uruguay(in Spanish). 18 April 2020.Retrieved2020-04-18.
- ^"Informe de situación en relación al coronavirus COVID-19 en Uruguay del 17/4/20".Sistema Nacional de Emergencias(in Spanish).Retrieved2020-04-18.
- ^"The first book about GACH".Diario EL PAIS Uruguay(in Spanish). 25 June 2021.Retrieved2021-09-07.
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