Assistant Research Professor
Contact:
245 Flanner Hall
574.631.2046 | agarci35@nd.edu
Biography
Angélica García Martínez is an Assistant Research Professor at the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society. Her expertise is in cancer epidemiology, and work with children in high-vulnerability in rural villages and indigenous population in Mexico. She previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and International Scholar at the Institute, where she continues to contribute as project manager for a collaborative research initiative with HIMFG (Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez), titled “Validation of the risk scale for tracking oncological patients with fever and neutropenia.”
Dr. García Martínez also coordinates research projects for Mexico’s National Public Health Institute (INSP, 2008-2016) and the University of California, Harvard University and Yale University. From 2016 to 2020, she served as Research Director in Un Kilo de Ayuda, a Mexican NGO where she designed the system INFOKilo, v2 – real-time monitoring to assess neurological and physical development in children in high-vulnerability.
She holds a Ph.D. in Public Health and Epidemiology from Mexico’s National Public Health Institute (INSP).