Mexican-American Physician and Master in Global Health and Social Medicine from Harvard Medical School. Experience in theoretical and field research using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods with a focus on health, migration, human rights, health systems, governance and humanitarian assistance. Also from 2016—2018 she worked for the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston as coordinator of the Ventanillas de Salud program where she coordinated and managed advocacy activities for the right to health, navigation of migrant patients. During 2020, she supported the humanitarian response as a medical advisor and clinical care for the migrant population in transit through Nuevo León, Mexico.
She currently serves as regional project coordinator in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University and the International Organization for Migration. Co-Principal Investigator in a research project on perinatal and postnatal care for the migrant, asylum seeker and refugee population in the northern area of Mexico in collaboration with the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.