Our Team

Dr. Sepulveda obtained his Medical Degree from Mexicos National Autonomous University (UNAM), two masters and a doctoral degree from Harvard University. He is the Former Executive Director of UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences, where he lead a team of over 300 faculty and staff engaged in translating scientific leadership into programs that positively impact health and reduce inequities globally. From 2007 to 2011, he was a member of the Foundation Leadership Team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and served at the BMGF in various roles. He chaired GAVIs Executive Committe to increase access to vaccines and other effective health solutions in developing countries. Dr. Sepulveda worked for more than two decades in a variety of senior health posts in the Mexican government, becoming Director-General of Epidemiology and at age 36, was appointed Vice-Minister of Health. From 2003 to 2006, he served as Director of the National Institutes of Health of Mexico. For almost a decade, he was Director-General of Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health and Dean of the National School of Public Health. In addition to his research credentials, Sepulveda is an experienced implementer of effective health programs. Sepulveda designed Mexico’s Universal Vaccination Program, which eliminated polio, measles, and diphtheria by achieving universal childhood immunization coverage. He also modernized the national health surveillance system, created the National Health Surveys System and founded Mexico’s National AIDS Council. Sepulveda is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Bojorquez holds a Ph.D. in Epidemiology. Her main research interest is on the social determinants of health, in the areas of migrant health, mental health, health policies and health- related practices. Since 2010 she has been a professor-researcher at the Department of Population Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico (El Colef). She is a member and co-lead of the board of the Lancet Commission on Migration and Health-Latin America Node, and a member of the Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict and Forced Displacement. She is currently a co-PI in intervention studies to improve the mental health of migrants, and a study of food insecurity and dietary change during migration. She is the the academic coordinator of the Certificate in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (IOM-El Colef joint program).

Solange Madriz, MA, MS, is an Academic Coordinator at the Institute of Global Health Sciences at University of California, San Francisco. She is currently a third-year doctoral student at University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health. Her dissertation focuses on evaluation methods of global health trainings. For the past 10 years Ms. Madriz has designed, implemented, and monitored global health programs in diverse settings including Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Paraguay, India and the United States. In addition to her research activities, Ms. Madriz teaches graduate level courses on global health for public health practittioners. From 2015 to 2018, Ms. Madriz led the implementation of a maternal and newborn health quality improvement project in all the secondary health facilities of the states of Huehuetenango and Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. This program continues as a capacity strengthening strategy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ms. Madriz led the educational program to train over 100 community-based organization members as case investigators and contact tracers working for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Ms. Madriz obtained her undergraduate degree from the Central University of Venezuela and a MA in International Studies from the University of San Francisco followed by a MS in Global Health from the University of California, San Francisco.

Cesar is a Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Scholar and Technical Lead at the Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco. His research focuses on infectious diseases, vaccines, and policies. He is a Research Candidate from Mexico’s National System of Researchers (CONAHCYT). In addition to this, Cesar is a professor of medicine at Universidad Autonoma de Baja California and has also served as a public health officer, leading disease surveillance programs at the State Health Ministry of Baja California, Mexico. He holds a Medical Degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico, a Public Health Master’s in Infectious Diseases from the National Institute of Public Health, Mexico, and a Master’s in Global Health Sciences from the University of California San Francisco.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics, a master’s degree in Population Studies, and a Ph.D. in Migration Studies.
Over the past 15 years, she has collaborated on various academic projects related to migration in partnership with educational institutions in Mexico and the United States. She has also participated in intervention initiatives and provided direct support to migrants in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and Tijuana, Baja California.
She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Group on Migration Issues (GITM) in the state of Chihuahua and a candidate for the National System of Researchers (SNII), under Mexico’s Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation.
She currently serves as a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez and El Colegio de Chihuahua, and as the coordinator of the Border Humanitarian Health Initiative at Ciudad Juárez.

PhD in Health Promotion from the School of Public Health of the University of Texas. He has contributed to numerous research projects in migration and health. His main focus of research is on access to health services for people in mobility. He is coordinator in Tijuana of the Border Humanitarian Health Initiative. He is a member of the Advisory Group on Migration and Health (GAMyS), that seeks to influence public policy on migration and health in México. Is part of the Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Displacement as a NextGen Scholar, and participates in the Quadripartite Mechanism coordinated by the UN Hich Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assitance (COMAR), which works to advance the rights of migrants in Tijuana, México.