Dr. Noël C. Barengo works as a professor at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, in Miami, Florida, USA. He was born and raised in Switzerland, where he started his academic training. He studied at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), the Karolinska Institute (Sweden), and the University of Eastern Finland, where he graduated with an MD in 1999. Thereafter, he completed a master's in Public Health (2001) and a PhD in Public Health (2006) at the University of Eastern Finland (formerly the University of Kuopio). He was given the title of lecturer in Public Health at the University of Helsinki in Finland in 2009. He has worked as an independent consultant in non-communicable diseases for the Pan-American Health Organization, the ASPIRE Center in Qatar, and the Ministries of Health of Argentina, Colombia, and Paraguay. He has over 20 years of teaching experience in epidemiology, research methods, and public health. Among others, he has taught biostatistics, public health, health promotion, global health, epidemiology, and research methods in pre- and postgraduate programs at several universities in Europe and Latin America. His primary research interests are the prevention and control of diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases. Furthermore, his scientific research has been focused on controlling and improving lifestyle habits and risk factors for non-communicable diseases in both the general population and high-risk groups.