I am a Peruvian infectious diseases epidemiologist with a PhD in Global Epidemiology and Disease Control and Master’s degrees in Biostatistics and Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. I am an Associate Professor at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, where I lead Clima, the Latin American Center of Excellence for Climate Change and Health, Emerge, the Emerging Infections and Climate Change Research Unit and Masters’ and Doctoral programs in Epidemiological Research. I also have joint appointments at the Tulane, Johns Hopkins, Wake Forest and Texas Medical Branch universities. I published >130 scientific articles and trained thousands of post-graduate students under major capacity building efforts of regional impact.