Surgeon, PhD in Public Health and Master in Epidemiology from the University of Chile. With 30 years of experience in public health, regulation and environmental management. She worked for the National Commission of the Environment an the Ministry of Environment elaborating the main environmental standards of the country. Later she worked as a Researcher at the National Environment Center of the University of Chile. Currently professor at the University of Los Andes and performs professional scientific support tasks in the Superintendency of Social Security, in charge of studies in the area of ​​Occupational Health. She was selected by the World Health Organization to participate in the update of the Air Quality Standard of 2005. She has worked as an international consultant in strengthening environmental institutional capacities for the governments of Panama, Costa Rica, and Argentina hired by the Inter-American Development Bank. Also participated as a Peer Evaluator role, for the Doctorate of Epidemiology of the University of Antioquia, Colombia. Her research areas are environmental health, risk assessment, climate change and occupational diseases.