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The Cuban Meteorological Society and the International Society of Biometeorology jointly organized among 30th November to 2nd December of 2015 an international expert meeting to promote the implementation of biometeorological forecast and climate services in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean. The expert meeting was a significant contribution to the success of the 8th Cuban Congress of Meteorology, held in Havana, Cuba Along sessions of the expert meeting, characteristics and observed impacts of actual bioclimatic and biometeorological forecasts services in the region were considered, as well as the needs, priorities, and projections of international organizations related with the broad spectrum of biometeorology in the fields of humans, animal health, and phenology (agrometeorology). The expert meeting also contributed to the interdisciplinary interaction between experts and Cuban postgraduate students working in different areas of biometeorology, trying to make easier a common methodological approach for the application of biometeorological and bioclimatic services, to assure the validation within the user’s community of the service outputs and to implement known best practices in managing efficiently and seamlessly the interaction among the international and national partners involved, meteorological services, mass media, and the general public. The main topics under discussion were as follows: