Carlos Durán is an Ecuadorian medical doctor with experience in the fields of Drug Utilization Research, Public Health, and Pharmaceutical Policy. Currently, he holds a position as Assistant Professor in the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care at University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is also affiliated as Associate Researcher to the Think Tank 'Medicines, Information and Power' at National University of Colombia. For the last 13 years, he has been the Editor-in-chief of the Ecuadorian Green Book of Medicines, a source of independent therapeutic information.