María Gudelia Rangel Gómez

Semblanza

Es doctora en Ciencias de la Salud con especialidad en Epidemiología por el Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Es profesora-investigadora de El Colef, adscrita al Departamento de Estudios de Población.

Entre las principales distinciones se encuentra el Research award for a well-established HIV eight-month long professional development training in vulnerable populations with special attention to the migrant population, NIDA and the International AIDS Society (2009), el President of the Coordinating Mechanism of Mexico before the Fondo Mundial (2010-2015) y Principal Spokesperson for the National Council for Control and Prevention of AIDS (CONASIDA), Secretariat of Health (2010-2013).

Participa en redes académicas tales como la Red Temática Binacional en Salud Fronteriza y en Migrare.

Actualmente colabora en los proyectos: “Police Training to Reduce Occupational Needle sticks and HIV among Substance Users”, “HIV case finding and genetic transmission networks among MSM in Tijuana, Mexico”, Impact of Drug Policy Reform on the HIV Risk Environment among IDUs in Tijuana” y en “Texting intervention to sustain HIV prevention in women in high-drugs-use context”.

Publicaciones

• Zhang X, Martinez-Donate A, Simon N, Hovell MF, Rangel MG, Magos-Rodriguez C, Sipan. Risk behaviours for HIV infection among travelling Mexican migrants: The Mexico–US border as a contextual risk factor. Global Public Health. 2016:1-19. doi:10.1080/17441692.2016.1142591.
• Martinez-Donate AP, Hovell MF, Rangel MG, Zhang X, Sipan CL, Magis-Rodriguez C, Gonzalez-Fagoaga JE. Migrants in transit: the importance of monitoring HIV risk among migrant flows at the Mexico-US border. Am J Public Health. 2015 Mar;105(3):497-509. PubMed PMID: 25602882; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4330846.
• Martinez-Donate AP, Rangel MG, Zhang X, Simon NJ, Rhoads N, Gonzalez-Fagoaga JE, Gonzalez AA. HIV Prevention Among Mexican Migrants at Different Migration Phases: Exposure to Prevention Messages and Association With Testing Behaviors. AIDS Educ Prev. 2015 Dec;27(6):547-65. PubMed PMID: 26595267; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4751078.
• Martínez-Donate A, Rangel MG, Rhoads N, Zhang X, Hovell M, Magis-Rodriguez C, Gonzalez-Fagoaga E. Identifying Opportunities to Increase HIV Testing among Mexican Migrants: A Call to Step Up Efforts in Health Care and Detention Settings. PLOS ONE. 2015;10(4):e0123631. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123631. PMCID: PMC4393219