Dr. Sepúlveda obtained his Medical Degree from UNAM and master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard. He served as Executive Director of UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences, leading 300+ faculty and staff. At the Gates Foundation (2007–2011), he was part of the leadership team and chaired GAVI’s Executive Committee. In Mexico, he held senior public health positions, including Vice-Minister of Health and Director of the National Institutes of Health. He designed Mexico’s Universal Vaccination Program, which eliminated polio, measles, and diphtheria. He also modernized the health surveillance system, created the National Health Surveys, and founded the National AIDS Council. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Bojorquez holds a Ph.D. in Epidemiology and an MSc in Public Health. Her research focuses on the social determinants of health, especially migrant and mental health, health policy, and related practices. After medical school, she worked in rural health promotion in Mexico and later served as Deputy Director of Operations Research at Mexico’s Ministry of Health (2007–2010). Since 2010, she has been a professor-researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El Colef). She co-leads the Latin America Node of the Lancet Commission on Migration and Health and is part of the Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict and Forced Displacement. She co-directs studies on migrant mental health, food insecurity, and dietary change, coordinates the EMIF surveys, and the Certificate in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (IOM-El Colef).

Solange Madriz, MA, MS, is Academic Coordinator at UCSF’s Institute of Global Health Sciences and a doctoral student at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Her dissertation focuses on evaluating global health training programs. Over the past decade, she has designed and led global health initiatives in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Paraguay, India, and the U.S. From 2015 to 2018, she led a maternal and newborn health project in Guatemala, which remains a capacity-building model. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she led the training of over 100 community workers for contact tracing in San Francisco. She teaches graduate-level courses in global health and holds degrees from Central University of Venezuela, University of San Francisco, and UCSF.

César is a Scholar and Technical Lead at UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences, focusing on infectious diseases, vaccines, and public health policy. He is a Research Candidate in Mexico’s National System of Researchers (CONAHCYT). He also serves as a professor of medicine at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Previously, he led disease surveillance programs at Baja California’s State Health Ministry. He holds a Medical Degree from Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, a Master’s in Infectious Diseases from Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health, and a Master’s in Global Health Sciences from UCSF.

She holds a PhD in Migration Studies from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Over the past decade, she has collaborated on intervention projects and direct care for people in mobility situations with international agencies, civil society organizations, and academic institutions in Mexico and the U.S. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Group on Migration Issues in Chihuahua and a candidate for Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNII). She has published on topics including genetic surveillance of asylum seekers, internal displacement due to violence, and border enforcement. Since 2019, she has served as academic coordinator of the Master’s in International Migration Studies at El Colef and teaches at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. Her research focuses on migration at Mexico’s northern border, Mexican migrants in the U.S., and forced displacement.

César is a PhD candidate in Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. Since 2010, he has focused on migration and health, particularly the right of in-transit (unregularized) migrants to access health services in transit and destination countries. He has collaborated on multicentric and nationwide projects in Mexico and Latin America, including work with the National Institute of Public Health, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, and other institutions. These efforts led to the creation of the Advisory Group in Migration and Health (GAMyS). His current research centers on developing a toolkit to help migrants exercise their right to public health services in Mexico. He has published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at public health conferences. He was recently appointed as a next-generation researcher in the CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Displacement.