I am Bruno Abarca, a physician specialized in public health and global health with over fifteen years of experience in international cooperation. I currently work as a Health and Nutrition Technical Advisor at Action Against Hunger and teach Public Health in Complex Emergencies at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University (Washington, DC).
Here you can find my profile at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, my LinkedIn profile and my Bluesky one. You are also welcome to contact me using this form.
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The purpose of Salud Everywhere
Salud Everywhere was born out of a real need. When I started working in this sector, no resource in Spanish brought together, in a rigorous and accessible way, the essentials of public health in international cooperation and humanitarian action. After more than fifteen years working in the field, in 2024 I decided to create it myself, guided by the following principles:
- To be a reference learning resource on public health in development cooperation and humanitarian action, with essential information in both Spanish and English, useful for students, teachers, and professionals in the sector.
- To provide essential information with a critical and scientifically rigorous approach.
- To be completely free and open in its access and use, with no need for identification, registration, or course enrolment.
- To be continuously updated, incorporating the best scientific evidence, technical guidelines, and knowledge as it is produced.
- To be written by a person and aimed at people, allowing them to expand their opportunities for in-depth exploration and learning through artificial intelligence tools used in a responsible and ethical manner.
Salud Everywhere is written by a human
The content of the Salud Everywhere pages is written by a humanitarian sector professional. That said, I do rely on artificial intelligence tools for a few things:
- I do extensive research myself. I carry out full literature reviews and read every one of the sources I include as a reference. Occasionally I use Claude to track down a specific bibliographic reference.
- I write the texts myself, in my own words. I do so in Spanish, my native language.
- Occasionally, I use Claude or Gemini Notebook to help me spot inconsistencies or apparent errors in texts I have already written.
- I use Claude and TranslatePress to translate my texts into English. I then review the translations myself.
- I use Claude to help with programming and SEO. It helps me develop Chrome extensions and small PHP tools, resolve web design issues with CSS, and optimise titles, meta descriptions and summaries for the hub and sub-hub pages.
How to use this resource
Salud Everywhere is completely free to access: there is no need to register or install anything, and everything is text and images on open web pages, accessible from any browser, on desktop or mobile, and designed to work on slow connections too. Each article can be downloaded as a PDF to upload to learning platforms or to read offline. There are no paywalls and no limit on the number of articles.
The content is organised in three levels: thematic hubs, sub-hubs that group pages by topic, and the content pages. You can navigate through the menu, through the side index on each page, or with the search function. Everything is available in Spanish and English, with a language selector in the top bar.
I publish under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence (CC BY-SA 4.0): you may copy, translate, adapt and reuse the content, including for commercial purposes, provided you cite the source and share it under the same licence.
Substantive claims are supported by cited, verifiable sources.
Responsible use of content and images
Salud Everywhere explains how health in humanitarian action is understood and organised. It is educational material: it does not replace national protocols, your organisation's guidelines or the judgement of a qualified professional, and it should not be used to make decisions about individual patients.
Everything is based on identifiable, cited sources, such as the Sphere Handbook or the Core Humanitarian Standard, WHO and United Nations agency guidance, evaluations, scientific articles and peer-reviewed literature. Where the evidence is weak or comes from an interested party, I say so in the text.
All photographs are my own, except in a few cases where indicated. I do not publish images of patients or of people in situations of manifest vulnerability, nor images that could identify individuals or locations in conflict settings, nor images that appeal to pity, following the spirit of the humanitarian sector's codes of conduct on images.
The site also accepts no user-generated content: no comments, no forums, no file uploads. Everything is my own work and I review it before publishing.
Privacy policy
This site does not collect information about you or track you. I have gone out of my way to ensure the privacy of everyone who visits Salud Everywhere.
Salud Everywhere has no advertising and no cookies that follow your movements around the internet. The only statistics I collect are page visits, anonymously and without identifying you. Videos do not load until you decide to watch them, and the fonts come from the site's own server, not from Google. Your data is not shared with anyone. You can check this yourself with Blacklight, an independent tool that analyses what a website does with your information.
This is a summary. You can find all the details in the full privacy policy.