public health, food environments, right to food, food security and sovereignty, food and nutrition, food programs, public policy on food, obesity and other non-communicable diseases, global health

I am a Medical Doctor from the University of Chile, with a Specialty in Pediatrics from the same University, Master in Nutrition from the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA) of the University of Chile, Diploma in Social Management from Flacso and Diploma in Management of Public Policies of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Chile.
I have more than 30 years of experience as a doctor, the first 15 years dedicated to clinical medicine in pediatrics and nutrition, and academic at the University of Chile, and then almost 15 years of experience in development, management, implementation and evaluation of public policies. in the areas of nutrition, food, food security, food programs, malnutrition, eating behavior, lifestyles, food safety, social and economic determinants of health, and food environments. In addition, I have been responsible for supporting, managing and evaluating policies, programs and projects for children and the life cycle, health promotion and citizen participation and intervention in communities, schools and workplaces

Doctoral Thesis:
1. Co-Tutor Professor. Doctorate in Public Health. Title: "Relationship between the self-management configuration and support for self-management of chronic diseases in the
in the Primary Care Cardiovascular Health Program, in the context of the Covid- 19 context of Covid-19 pandemic, in the Metropolitan Region, Chile".
School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile. Chile. Student: Daniela Nicoletti. Status: In progress

Master Thesis:
1.- Professor Tutor Master in Public Health. Title: "Health teams and LM". School of Population Health, School of Medicine, University of Chile.
of Chile. Student: Daniela Aravena. Status: In progress
2. Professor Tutor Master in Public Health. Title: "Sugars and sweeteners". School of Population Health, School of Medicine, University of Chile.
University of Chile. Student: Wladimir Quiroz. Status: In progress
3. Professor Tutor Master in Food Safety Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia. Antioquia, Colombia. Title: "Validation and pilot of a user satisfaction survey for the
of the school feeding program in the department of Norte de Santander, Colombia". department of Norte de Santander, Colombia". Student: Angélica Niño.
Status: In progress
4. Co-Tutor Professor Master in Nutrition INTA. Title: "How does the relationship relationship between food consumption and educational level in food environments in the population of 200 households from food environments in the population of 200 households in sectors of high socioeconomic level of the high socioeconomic level of Macul and low socioeconomic level of Cerro Navia". Cerro Navia". University of Chile. Student: Alicia Franco. Status: In in progress
5. Co-Tutor Professor Master in Nutrition INTA. Title: "Relationship between the availability of food in the neighborhood and availability of healthy food in households in a
healthy foods in households of a commune of Santiago, Chile". University of Chile. Student: Camila Villarroel. Status: In progress
6. Co-Tutor Professor Master in Public Health. Title: "Proposals for the promotion of breastfeeding in Chile". University of Chile. Student:
Mary Hatton. Status: In progress
7. Professor Tutor Master in Public Health. Title: "Relationship between prevalence of malnutrition by excess in children under 6 years of age and
characteristics of the environment of the communes of Chile". Student: Tamara Doberti. Status: Finished
8. Master Tutor Professor. Title: "Analysis of sodium substitutes". Student: Julio Vásquez. Status: Finished
9. Co-Tutor Professor Master's Degree. Title: "Prevalence of adolescent SCI". Student: Nicole Signorelli. Status: Completed
10. Master Tutor Professor. Title: "Consumption patterns in pandemic". Student: Luis Villareal. Status: Finished
11. Master Tutor Professor. Title: "Access to health care in patients with HCV pandemic". Student: Estefanía Toledo. Status: Finished
12. Master Tutor Professor. Title: "Constitutional Right to Food". Right to Food". Student: Pamela Estay. Status: Finished

From the logic of the essential functions of public health I have had the opportunity to build new legislation and regulations on food and nutrition, food surveillance and control programs, stewardship and professional training in regions and health services, and health promotion and citizen participation projects throughout Chile, conducting workshops, seminars for community leaders, health forums and citizen dialogues, around issues of food, nutrition, childhood, parenting, attachment, active living and self-care.
Internationally, I have been an advisor to the World Food Program (WFP), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Asia, Europe and the United States, on issues of nutrition, food, food programs, breastfeeding, malnutrition, food environments, nutrition labeling and food advertising. I have also presented papers and Chilean position in international assemblies of FAO, PAHO, WHO, World Trade Organization (WTO), Codex Alimentarius and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and numerous national and international congresses.
I have also worked as a team leader and supervisor both in my clinical experience and in teaching teams, as well as in public policies.
In the last 4 years in my position as Head of the Department of Nutrition and Food of the Ministry of Health of Chile, I was responsible for leading and successfully managing an innovative measure to modify the food environment to combat obesity, through the design and implementation of Law 20. 606 on the Nutritional Composition of Food and its Advertising, which introduces the Frontal Warning Labeling, discs for "High in" sugars, saturated fats, sodium and energy; the prohibition of "High in" foods in schools and the Prohibition of Advertising of these foods, aimed at children under 14 years of age. I also directed the implementation of Law 20.869 on Food Advertising, complementary to the previous one, which increases advertising restrictions, prohibiting the advertising of "High in" foods in daytime in movies and TV and prohibits all forms of advertising of breast milk substitutes. Both laws are now in full force and effect, despite the many barriers along the way, and have demonstrated a successful implementation process and initial results.
In this governmental task, I also led the redesign and modernization of the free food programs of the Government of Chile, incorporating new beneficiaries according to the new times, for example, allergic children and people with metabolic diseases, whose food needs are now covered by the State; as well as numerous feeding projects, promotion, management of malnutrition, neonatal screening, high-cost nutritional treatments, food taxes, and the quality management system in food safety.

During my time at MINSAL, I had countless interviews and press conferences in different media (TV, radio, written media) to press conferences in different media (TV, radio, written media).
In my academic role, I believe that my main contribution is the creation of GTOP, Transdisciplinary Group for the Obesity of Populations with academics from different faculties and institutes of our different Faculties and Institutes of our University, which has been working uninterruptedly for 4 years, producing uninterruptedly working, producing teaching, research, publications and extension/linkage with the environment. In spite of not having direct funding, GTOP has an internal organization in committees (board of directors, communications, web page, website, etc.) that allows us to function permanently, to permanently, with a web page (https://gtop.uchile.cl/), twitter (@gtop_uchile) (@gtop_uchile), multiple outings in the media and several invitations to be part of seminars, talks, expert committees and national consulting groups. We were even called to defend the Right to Food in the Constitutional Convention, as a result of which the draft document of the new Constitution included this article/norma (Fundamental Rights) and we were called to be members of the Commission to be a member of the Future Challenges Commission of the Senate with the topic of food food environments from which a highly relevant publication emanates (https://www.bcn.cl/portal/publicaciones/ediciones-bcn/detalle_libro?id= 10221.1 % 2F85083).

Multiple mass media outlings:
https://radio.uchile.cl/programas/a-tu-salud/505591/
http://www.radioudec.cl/?q=node/1278
https://www.latercera.com/podcast/noticia/los-complicados-equilibrios-la-salud-publica/985375/amp/
https://www.pauta.cl/pauta/site/edic/base/port/video_vivo.html#1580130485
http://uchile.cl/sp161418 /https://digital.lasegunda.com/2020/01/29/A/HF3OIFRM
https://radio.uchile.cl/2020/01/29/ministerio-de-salud-pone-en-marcha-protocolo-para-prevenir-eventuales-contagios-de-coronavirus/
https://interferencia.cl/articulos/epidemiologa-y-el-coronavirus-hay-que-evitar-las-fake-news-y-consultar-fuentes-oficiales
https://sonarfm.cl/epidemiologa-por-coronavirus-es-muy-pronto-para-suspender-eventos-como?fbclid=IwAR23nhhSWXUTnbI9-xmgiB_pShvAg5aReymy-XqB97FUXrxk-qkOOXSUNKU
https://www.lacuarta.com/cronica/noticia/expertos-aconsejan-frente-coronavirus/466367/
https://radio.uchile.cl/2020/03/03/va-a-llegar-en-cualquier-momento-gobierno-presenta-plan-por-coronavirus-y-expertos-llaman-a-la-calma/
https://scontent-scl2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/88110705_10222337253640786_5848199234565701632_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=Z3adydMMINgAX-1LDgc&_nc_ht=scontent-scl2-1.xx&oh=9d280cc748ad0b0c53bfe60a2d88e29f&oe=5E990263
https://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/sociedad/salud/gripe-aviar/el-calor-es-enemigo-del-covid-19-los-mitos-y-verdades-sobre-el/2020-03-04/170504.html
https://www.uchile.cl/noticias/172549/casa-de-bello-lanza-nueva-catedra-sobre-agricultura-y-alimentacion
http://www.saludpublica.uchile.cl/noticias/172886/monitores-sanitarios-en-ferias-libres-en-tiempos-de-pandemia-por-covid
https://www.ulagos.cl/2021/03/academica-afirma-que-el-derecho-a-la-alimentacion-sana-y-segura-debe-estar-incorporado-en-la-nueva-constitucion/
https://www.uchile.cl/noticias/174172/u-de-chile-impulsa-nucleo-de-trabajo-por-el-derecho-a-la-alimentacion
https://www.elmostrador.cl/autor/marcela-araya-y-daniel-egana-y-lorena-rodriguez/
https://digital.elmercurio.com/2021/04/29/C/F53V0CJL#zoom=page-width
http://portal.nexnews.cl/showN?valor=gb30s
http://www.saludpublica.uchile.cl/noticias/175207/estudio-plantea-consagrar-derecho-a-la-alimentacion-en-la-constitucion
https://www.uchile.cl/noticias/175327/derecho-a-la-alimentacion-una-propuesta-multidimensional
https://radio.uchile.cl/2021/05/25/el-peso-de-lo-social-y-la-percepcion-del-riesgo-corporal/
http://www.saludpublica.uchile.cl/noticias/176646/mejoras-para-la-autogestion-en-personas-con-factores-de-riesgo
http://www.saludpublica.uchile.cl/noticias/178315/los-efectos-de-la-pandemia-en-el-acceso-a-la-alimentacion
http://www.saludpublica.uchile.cl/publicaciones/otros/178968/boletin-grupo-transdisciplinario-para-la-obesidad-de-poblacionesgtop
https://www.latercera.com/earlyaccess/noticia/adios-a-la-leche-purita-salud-distribuira-nueva-formula-para-evitar-obesidad-y-sobrepeso-en-lactantes/PWVOJUWAHVAYTFYQLRZCZSGYBA/
http://www.saludpublica.uchile.cl/noticias/178939/proyectos-fonis-trabajan-en-pro-de-ambientes-alimentarios-saludables
http://www.saludpublica.uchile.cl/noticias/178992/un-aporte-en-la-prevencion-y-control-sobre-el-fenomeno-de-la-obesidad
https://www.uchile.cl/noticias/179008/u-de-chile-podcast-la-lactancia-materna-como-un-derecho-social
http://www.saludpublica.uchile.cl/noticias/179055/encuentro-permitio-actualizar-medidas-de-autocuidado-para-el-retorno
https://www.uchile.cl/noticias/179242/consejos-transdisciplinarios-para-prevenir-enfermedades-cardiacas
https://radio.uchile.cl/2021/10/30/academicas-de-la-universidad-de-chile-presentan-propuesta-constitucional-sobre-derecho-a-la-alimentacion/
https://radio.uchile.cl/2021/10/30/academicas-de-la-universidad-de-chile-presentan-propuesta-constitucional-sobre-derecho-a-la-alimentacion/
https://www.elmostrador.cl/dia/2021/11/02/academicas-de-la-universidad-de-chile-presentan-propuesta-constitucional-sobre-derecho-a-la-alimentacion/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvR6SDjgUVg
https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/opinion/columnas/2021/11/13/transformar-los-sistemas-alimentarios-pero-sin-dejar-a-nadie-atras/
https://www.elmostrador.cl/autor/daniel-egana-lorena-rodriguez/
https://www.uchile.cl/noticias/181766/u-de-chile-premio-a-206-academicosas-por-su-labor-en-investigacion
https://www.emol.com/noticias/Tendencias/2021/11/19/1038837/u-de-chile-comer-sano.html
https://digital.elmercurio.com/2021/12/23/A/5A42IVMU#zoom=page-width
https://digital.elmercurio.com/2021/12/27/A/9J42IVT9#zoom=page-width

National and International Advisory Committees
1. Member of the NUGAG Group. World Health Organization WHO – NUGAG (Nutrition Guidance Expert Advisory Group). Period: 2018 to date
2. Permanent member of the Right to Food Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean, Chile Branch Period: 2019 to date50
3. Advisor to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Period: 2018- 2022. Specific consultancies for FAO, through the preparation of documents and participation in meetings, conferences and the Food Systems Summit.
4. Consultancies for World Cancer Research Fund International WCRF. Period: 2019 - 2020. Requested for the preparation of 2 documents
5. 5. Advisor Pan American Health Organization. Preparation of Guide Fairs Pandemic. Period: 2020 – 2021
6. Consultancy corresponding to the organization and execution of a series of workshops for the prevention of pandemic contagion with fairground workers from all over Chile (ASOF, Asociación de Ferias de Ferias Libres).
7. United Nations Children's Fund - Chile. Cooperation Program "Diagnosis and analysis of the situation of children and adolescents SITAN". Invited as Expert. Year 2021
8. Ministry of Health:
a. Reformulation Plan for the Prevention and Management of Childhood Obesity 2021 – 2030. Period: 2021 up todate
b. Advisor to update the Feeding Guide for children under 2 years of age. Guide of feeding until adolescence. Period: 2021 – 2022
c. Advisor Standard for the ambulatory management of deficit and excess malnutrition in children under 6 years of age. Period: 2021 – 2022
d. National Health Strategy Advisor. Period: 2020 – 2022
e. Fat Guide Advisor to the National Complementary Food Program (PNAC). Period: 2021
9. Ministry of Social Development and Family:
a. Invited as an expert to integrate the Mesa Intersectorial Hablemos de Todo. (MIHDT). Period: 2021 up todate
10. Others:
a. Peer Evaluator National Accreditation Commission