Infectious Diseases

Biography

Dr. Rodriguez-Morales is a Senior Researcher and Faculty at the Faculty of Medicine of Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas-Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. He is also a Researcher and Faculty at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru. He was Non-Resident Faculty Researcher of the Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon (2023-2024). Dr. Rodriguez-Morales is an expert in tropical and emerging diseases, particularly in zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, including COVID-19 and mpox, and their occurrence among travelers and migrants, as well as its approach under the One Health lens. He is currently the President of the Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI) (2023-2025). Past-President, Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases (ACIN) (2021-2023). Member, Committee on Tropical Medicine, Zoonoses, and Travel Medicine, ACIN. Member of the Council, International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) (2020-2026). Editor-in-Chief, Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases. Full Member of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). Member of the American Society for Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTM&H). Member of the International Society for Travel Medicine (ISTM). He was a member of the Technical Working Group of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Global Research Agenda on Health and Migration and the 3rd Global Consultation on the Health of Migrants and Refugees (co-organized by WHO, UNHCR and IOM) (2023). Currently, Member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Guideline Development Group for Clinical Management of post-COVID-19 condition (2024-2025). H index 66 (Scopus) with 867 documents indexed in Scopus.