Alhelí Calderón-Villarreal MD, PhD, MPH

Alhelí is a professor in the department of Public Health in the California State University of San Marcos, a Medical Doctor graduated from the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila (UA de C). She has a Master's on Public Health, graduated from the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP) in Mexico, and finished her PhD at the Joint Doctoral Program of Public Health - Global Health track at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the San Diego State University (SDSU). She is a co-director of Women in Global Health - Mexico Chapter, and Correspondent for Mexico in Pandemic Period Collective. Alhelí is also founder and director of the Social-Environmental Tijuana River Project. She has special training on global health, social and behavioral science and migration.

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Interests:

Public health, global health, health equity, social determinants of health, social and environmental justice, human rights, health policies, migration and health, access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), substance use, menstrual health and poverty, intersectionality and women leadership in health.