Gail A. Reid

Gail A. Reid is the Executive Editor of MEDICC Review. She is the founder and former International Director of Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) and MEDICC Review. She has written on social and economic issues in Cuba for the last two decades. Ms. Reed’s writings include: Denial of Food and Medicine: The Impact of the US Embargo on Health and Nutrition in Cuba; Island in the Storm; and a series on women and race in Cuba with Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole. Ms. Reed is also Co-Producer and Executive Producer of the award-winning film ¡Salud!, a feature documentary on Cuba and the quest for global health, released in January 2007 and distributed by MEDICC.

In the 1990s. She received her MS in Journalism from Columbia University, New York.