Experience

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate researcher

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  Researcher at the Public Health Department, PUC. Performing statistical analyses and dissemination of data from the Chilean National Health Surveys. Assisting the training of Master students in the use of Stata and complex sample survey data.

• Invited Professor

  • Mar 2013 - Present

  I realize the computer lab of the biostatistics course for Kinesiology, Nutrition and Speech Therapy. In the laboratory, I apply the theory through exercises and the use of Minitab statistics software. I have achieved good academic evaluations among the students.I perform the computer lab of the Population Surveys course, of the Master of Epidemiology. I give support in the design of research questions and training in the use of the complex samples module in SPSS and Stata applied to the Chilean National Health Survey.I conduct, as a visiting professor, classes of pharmacoepidemiology in the course of Public Health for Pharmacists.

• Research Technical coordinator

  • Dec 2015 - Nov 2017

  Technical coordinator of the III Chilean National Health Survey 2016-2017 (NHS 2016-2017) / Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile/ Santiago, Chile. Director Dra. Paula Margozzini.I have been involved full time since the initial phase, working in the design of the questionnaire and the measures included in the NHS 2016-2017, training the field personnel (Interviewers and nurses) for the application of the survey and also to the laboratory teams of the public hospitals supporting the processing of biosamples. I am also coordinating and generating the reports to the Ministry of Health (methodological report, pilot report, among others) and coordinating the creation of SPSS syntaxes for the 60 topics included in NHS 2016-2017.

• Research Project Coordinator

  • Mar 2011 - Oct 2015

  Project manager, fieldwork coordinator and data manager of the population-based cohort of Maule (MAUCO)/ Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile /Santiago, Chile. Director Dr Catterina Ferreccio.MAUCO is the core project of the recently established Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS). Universidad de Chile & Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, supported by the Fund for Research Centers in Priority Areas Program (FONDAP) of the Chilean National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT). MAUCO is the biggest epidemiological study in Chile who’s aim is to enrol n=10,000 participants and follow them over 10 years to analyze the natural history of chronic diseases in the agricultural county of Molina.I have been involved in this research full-time since the initial phase, working on the designs of tools for assessing the basal status regarding to cardiovascular morbidity and some habits (as tobacco use or alcohol consumption), on the startup of the Research center in Molina, on the work field personnel recruitment and their training for the whole process, designing the system for recruitment of participants and the online map platform, Census supervision and permanent coordination with the authorities from the Molina’s Hospital, Municipality and community groups. I supervised the interviews and the clinical assessment of the first 2,000 participants recruited. Also, I worked in data management and preliminary analysis of data quality.

• Research Assistant

  • Mar 2012 - Mar 2014

  Technical support in the secondary analyses based on data from the National Health Surveys (NHS) 2003 and 2010, and other databases with emphasis on drug databases and chronic diseases/ Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile /Santiago, Chile. I worked on the development and validation of the drug database from the NHS 2010. This drug database contains the 8,824 medicines in use by the 5,412 adults who participated at NHS 2010. All these products were transformed into 428 different types of ATC-WHO codes for the actives principles included in those medicines.I worked on the statistical analysis, bibliographic search and report writing of seven Ministry of Health biddings, derived from the whole NHS database (morbidity, exam results, risk factors, drugs in use).

• Research Project Coordinator

  • Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

  Project Assistant in “Nutriplanet” Project/ Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile /Santiago, Chile. Director: Dr Francisco Mardones.Nutriplanet aims to develop an overview of maternal and child health nutrition in Chile. I coordinated the bibliographic search, with the group of librarian scientists from the biomedical library at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, the selection of articles and the development of the report.



UCL

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• PHD Researcher

  • Nov 2017 - Present

  University College of London. PhD researcher in Epidemiology and Public health. Awarded with a full scholarship, CONICYT Becas Chile.Dissertation title: Socioeconomic inequalities in the management of hypertension: Chilean National Health Surveys 2003, 2010 and 2017 University College of London. PhD researcher in Epidemiology and Public health. Awarded with a full scholarship, CONICYT Becas Chile.Dissertation title: Socioeconomic inequalities in the management of hypertension: Chilean National Health Surveys 2003, 2010 and 2017