Dr. Martha Cecilia Yépez García is a Professor of Medical Biochemistry at the College of Health Sciences at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador) and Coordinator of the Teaching Laboratories at the School of Medicine. She obtained a degree in Medical Technology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and completed a Master’s in Tropical Medicine at the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (Cuba). She has participated and directed projects funded by national and international entities in tropical diseases and nutrition, and serves as an academic member of the Board of Directors of the International Life Science Institute ILSI NOR-ANDINO. Her expertise focuses on nutrition, physical activity, public health, tropical diseases, and malaria.