The Global Health Research Initiative of Canada invited Ana Sanchez to the II Global Health Leadership Awards (GHLA) Cohort Meeting held in Havana, Cuba from Nov. 16 to 20. The GHLA meeting was held within the Global Forum for Health Research, Forum 2009: Innovating for the Health of All. Sanchez presented the talk “Setting Priorities for Health Research and Infectious Diseases: A closer look to Central America’s capacity to generate high quality research.”