Dr Isabel C. Garcés-Palacio
Dr Isabel C. Garcés-Palacio
Dr. Garcés-Palacio is a researcher in women's health; she is a professor in the Epidemiology group of the School of Public Health at University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. She completed undergraduate studies in Nutrition at Javeriana University in Colombia and graduate studies in Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham-UAB-(MPH in 2004 and DrPH in 2009). She was a post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Preventive Medicine at UAB during 2009 and 2010. She was honored with a Fulbright scholarship in 2002 and the Outstanding Doctoral Student award in 2009 from UAB’s School of Public Health. She has extensive research experience with underserved populations in the United States and Colombia, focusing primarily on cervical cancer prevention. Her projects have focused on the effect of the social determinants of health in cervical cancer screening and follow-up of abnormalities, and psychological factors related to HPV infection and vaccination. She has also investigated about smoking prevention among women and maternal and child health in the Colombian armed conflict.