Ana Lucía de la Garza Barroso is director of Epidemiological Operations Research at Mexico's Ministry of Health, a doctor in

public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the det ...

who has helped to modernize epidemiological intelligence, and during the

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has contributed to the coordination of the International Health component of the

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...

response operation in Mexico, providing daily reports on its progress.

Career

Ana Lucía de la Garza Barroso studied medicine at Justo Sierra University and received her postgraduate degree in epidemiology at the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

. She received a Master's in Public Health with a specialization in Health Administration at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico with her thesis titled "''Diseño e Implementación de los Procedimientos de Operación Estandarizados En la Unidad de Inteligencia Epidemiológica y Sanitaria de la Dirección General de Epidemiología".'' She received a PhD in Public Health from the Escuela de Salud Pública de México-Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública with the thesis titled "''Contribución de la minería de contenidos Web de medios sociales a la inteligencia epidemiológica de Chikungunya y Zika 2016".'' She then enrolled in a doctorate program in Administrative Science from the Instituto Universitario Veracruzano.

Public Service

Before becoming the Director of Operational Epidemiological Research at Mexico's Ministry of Health, De la Garza Barroso worked as a research collaborator in International Health Regulations at the General Directorate of Epidemiology in Mexico from 2009 to 2019, and helped to modernize epidemiological intelligence. Since April 2019, she has been the Director of Operational Epidemiological Research at the Health Secretariat in Mexico. In 2020, along with

Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez Hugo López-Gatell is a Mexican epidemiologist, author, and public health official who has served as head of the Undersecretariat of Prevention and Health Promotion at the Mexican Secretariat of Health since 2018. Since January 2020, he has al ...

, she was appointed part of the medical response team dealing with the

COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico The COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to have reached Mexico in February 2020. Howe ...

. She has contributed to the coordination of the International Health component of the

response operation in Mexico, providing daily reports on its progress.

Selected publications

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References

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