I am a Mexican-trained paediatrician with a master’s degree in Public Health for Development from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. I earned my medical degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and went on to specialise in Paediatrics and Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the National Institute of Paediatrics in Mexico City. With over five years of clinical experience, I have focused on maternal, newborn, and child health, working in underserved communities in Mexico City and along Mexico’s northern border. My commitment to global health has taken me to humanitarian settings in South Sudan and Haiti with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) where I have collaborated to strengthen local capacity and support malnutrition programmes. In addition to fieldwork, I serve as a consultant and evaluator for global health projects and programmes. My experiences with MSF inspired me to pursue advanced public health training, aiming to address the underlying determinants of child and neonatal mortality in high-burden and crisis-affected regions. For my dissertation, I examined the coverage of life-saving interventions for small and sick newborns across neonatal units in four sub-Saharan African countries implementing with NEST360. I collaborated in the MAMI-GRIPPS project, implementation research where I lead the development of a training for small and nutritionally at-risk infants under 6-months in Senegal and Bangladesh. I currently work as a Research Assistant with NeoShield, supporting the clinical implementation of neonatal sepsis tools, outbreak detection, and strengthening of routine clinical and microbiology systems in Zambia and Malawi.