Sandra Victoria Abril Ulloa, Master's in Nutritional Sciences (University of Chile, Chile, 2008), and Ph.D. in Nutrition and Metabolism (Rovira I Virgili University, Spain, 2013). She is a researcher and teacher at the University of Cuenca, Ecuador, since 2009. where she researches and teaches Nutrition, Food Security, Epidemiology, Public Health, and Research Methodology. She directs undergraduate and graduate degree work. She has participated as a director and researcher in various research projects related to nutrition, food security, physical activity, and public health in different age groups (preschoolers, children, adolescents, young adults, and older adults) and published more than 20 articles in high-impact indexed journals and presented the results of various investigations at national and international conferences. She has been a research coordinator at the University of Cuenca and a member of the Bioethics Committee of the Health Area of the University of Cuenca. She has received recognition from the World Health Organization.