Assistant Research Professor
Contact:
245 Flanner Hall
574.631.2046 | agarci35@nd.edu
Biography
Dr. Angélica García-Martínez is an expert in cancer epidemiology and early childhood development, with extensive experience working with highly vulnerable children in rural and Indigenous communities in Mexico. She coordinated national and international research at Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health in collaboration with leading universities (UCSF, Harvard, Yale). She led real-time child development monitoring innovations as Research Director at the NGO Un Kilo de Ayuda. Her contributions span cancer environmental epidemiology, nutrigenetics, early childhood development, and breastfeeding practices, authoring the Mexican national nurturing care guidelines in partnership with Yale. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society at the University of Notre Dame, she co-led the design and evaluation of AI-driven telehealth innovations (e.g., SaludConectaMX) aimed at improving pediatric cancer outcomes in LMICs by integrating clinical, nutritional, and social determinants of health data to predict and prevent complications such as fever and neutropenia. Her work bridges public health, systems science, and artificial intelligence to advance health equity.