Marcela Arrivillaga

Full Professor and Senior Researcher at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Cali, Colombia. Currently is the Director of the Research and Development Office at this University. Head of the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology between 2016 and 2021. She obtained her PhD in 2009 at the Universidad Nacional in Colombia. Her research interests include accessibility to healthcare system as well as social and gender health inequalities. Researcher for the Colombian divisions of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Global Communities in HIV/AIDS. She has published a significant number of books, chapters and papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, particularly in the Latin American region.