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Karla Unger-Saldaña, MD, DSc
Multiple Principal Investigator

María E Fernández, PhD
Vice President of Population Health & Implementation Science; Lorne Bain Distinguished Professor of Public Health & Medicine; Professor, Department of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences; Director, Center for Health Promotion & Prevention Research
Co-Investigators
- Michael Potter, MD, University of California San Francisco
- Bijal Bala, MBBS, PhD, UTHealth Houston
- Samiran Ghosh, PhD, UTHealth Houston
- Alejandro Mohar Betancourt, MD, MSc, PhD, National Cancer Institute of Mexico
- Lara Savas, PhD, UTHealth Houston
- Ma Somsouk, MD, MAS, University of California San Francisco
- Timothy Walker, PhD, UTHealth Houston
- Cynthia Villarreal-Garza, MD, DSc, Tecnológico de Monterrey
- Leticia Torres-Ibarra, ScD, National Institute of Public Health of Mexico*
- Paloma Muñoz MSc, PhD, National Institute of Public Health of Mexico*
Research Staff
- Priscilla Espinosa Tamez, MD - Graduate Research Assistant, University of California San Francisco
- Mary-Louise Millett, MPH - Graduate Research Assistant, UTHealth Houston
- Hugo Sanchez Blas, MBBS - Graduate Research Assistant, UTHealth Houston
- Alma Cruz, MPH, National Cancer Institute of Mexico
- Alejandra Maldonado, National Cancer Institute of Mexico
- José Fernando Macías González, BME, MsC, National Institute of Public Health of Mexico
- Miguel Zambrano, MD - Research Assistant, National Cancer Institute of Mexico
- Cesar Rodriguez, MHS - Graduate Research Assistant, UTHealth Houston
Support Staff
- Christine Allen, MA, MPH - Lead Coordinator, UTHealth Houston
- Anais Mendiola, MPH – Research Coordinator, UTHealth Houston
- Alejandra Rodriguez Atristain, MPH - Project Coordinator, National Institute of Public Health of Mexico (INSP)
- Abilene Delgado - Administrative Coordinator, University of California San Francisco
- Erik McKenny - Communications Specialist, UTHealth Houston
*Junior Mentees