Arantxa Colchero Aragonés is a Mexican economist specialized in

health economics Health economics is a branch of economics concerned with issues related to efficiency, effectiveness, value and behavior in the production and consumption of health and healthcare. Health economics is important in determining how to improv ...

. She has designed strategies in fiscal policies and product labeling, to prevent and reduce obesity. She has been working on nutrition economics for more than 10 years, as well as HIV.

Life

She graduated from

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 ...

National Institute of Public Health National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...

, and

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

. She was a research assistant in the Department of Epidemiology, at the

National System of Researchers Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Researchers) or SNI is a governmental agency established in Mexico in 1984 to promote both the quantity and quality of research in Mexico, especially in the sciences. In the 1980s, the countr ...

Selected works

* ''La obesidad en México, Estado de la política pública y recomendaciones para su prevención y control.'' *Aragonés, A. C., Loya, D. C., & de Cosío Martínez, T. G. 4. Costos de las prácticas inadecuadas de lactancia materna. ''Lactancia materna en México'', 59. *Gamboa Delgado, E., González de Cossío, T., Colchero Aragonés, A., Pelletier, D., Quezada, A. D., & Rodríguez Ramírez, S. (2014). Effect of a food aid program on BMI/A of Mexican children, mediated by diet (251.3). ''The FASEB Journal'', ''28'', 251-3. *Gamboa-Delgado, E. M., González de Cossío, T., & Colchero-Aragonés, A. (2016). Obesity risk in preschoolers beneficiaries of food aid programs. ''Revista de Salud Pública'', ''18''(4), 643-655. *Barrientos-Gutierrez, T., Zepeda-Tello, R., Rodrigues, E. R., Colchero-Aragonés, A., Rojas-Martínez, R., Lazcano-Ponce, E., ... & Meza, R. (2017). Expected population weight and diabetes impact of the 1-peso-per-litre tax to sugar sweetened beverages in Mexico. ''PLOS ONE'', ''12''(5), e0176336. *

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