Dr. Arlene Calvo is a researcher and Associate Professor at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Public Health (COPH). Since 2004, she is assigned to the COPH's Panama Program at the City of Knowledge. Currently, she directs the Salud Latina USF initiative and is Director of the Public Health Practice Program. Dr. Calvo is also an affiliate researcher at the Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies (ICGES) of Panama. Dr. Calvo has a doctorate (PhD-2005) and a master's degree in public health (MPH-1998), with a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary natural sciences-chemistry from USF. She has been based at the City of Knowledge since 2003. Her areas of focus includes women's health issues, including cancer, vaccines, domestic violence, teen pregnancy, and some sexually transmitted infections, such as HPV and HIV. In the area of vaccines, she has worked on multiple vaccine clinical trials, including rotavirus, pneumococcus, and papillomavirus vaccines. She has also participated in epidemiological and observational studies related to vaccination. She is director of the international congress of Vaccinology in the Tropics. And she is currently a member of the steering committee for the implementation and evaluation of the acellular polio vaccine in Panama, of the technical-scientific advisory committee of the City of Knowledge, of the Bioethics in Health Research Committee of the ICGES, and a member of the Panamanian Chapter of Transparency International.