IN ENGLISH: A glimpse about us...

Our firm "Segura Morón & Castañeda Asesores en Salud Ltda.", established 2009, is a limited liability company (LLC) with nested Research Unit (RU) devoted to offer comprehensive consultancy services in public health, epidemiology and applied health research, education & training in health, and related issues.

Our goal is to be a competitive and excelent firm focused on the attention of domestic and international clients ranging from the decision-maker at national level to the regional consultant to the expert in the field. Our mission implies application of research, insight and prospective and human resource training to deal with determinants and risk/protective factors affecting the health balance from the individual, to the local community, to the big citizen cluster. Our mission is to render a contribution for a better life style and condition.

We believe in the mutual trust as a paramount requirement for these developments. Trust implies transparency, which in turn leads to honest and truthful responses. When such a behavior is developed, enterprise ethics towards the interest of both the firm and our clients and community appears. In the long term, social responsibility and sense grow and prosper.

Our professional background lies on Public Health & Social Epidemiology, alongside the professional fields individually chosen:

☼ Omar Segura: Medicine, Clinical & Field Epidemiology, SCUBA Diving Instruction;

☼ Lina Morón: Nursing, Field Epidemiology.

☼ Oneida Castañeda: Psychology, Fundraising, Field Epidemiology.

supported with over 100 publications in local and national indexed health journals by 2017. For a new line of work, social security and commercial consultancy, we have consolidated an external consultants team.

Our services:

Coordination and management of surveys, outbreak and epidemic investigation on those events classified within the public health interest.
Vaccine fast monitoring as a tool for public health surveillance.
Design, execution and evaluation of public health surveillance systems, including measures and indicators.
Health situation analysis and a gamut of related tools (plans, programs, projects, databases) related to a particular epidemiological and public health situacion in a given place/time.
Preparation of scientific publication (from technical notes to guides and protocols to papers) using qualitative and/or quantitative approaches.
Public health and epidemiology audit.
Medical decision and sensitivity analyses.
Comprehensive professional formation (formación profesional integral) and training of human resource in health, both professional and technicians, in our areas of expertise.
Impact evaluation of social programs focused on gender and ethnic (social epidemiology).
Social Security issues, specially focused on the colombian market (audits, technical commitees, health contracts)