Celia Alpuche-Aranda completed her undergraduate studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, where she graduated as a midwife surgeon in 1981. She is a specialist in pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (1985) and the Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez (1987). She also received her master's degree and PhD in medical sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1990-1993). In 1994, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Infectious Diseases Unit of the Massachusetts General Hospital and cell biology at Harvard Medical School. From 2007 to 2012, she was president of the Institute for Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference (InDRE). From 2012 to 2014, she was president of the Mexican Association of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology. She has been a level II researcher of the National System of Researchers, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and deputy general director of the Center for Research on Infectious Diseases (CISEI) since 2013. In 2020, she became part of a group of scientists responsible for reflecting on the technical response to the COVID-19 emergency in Mexico. She has directed research on "bacterial pathogenesis, epidemiological and molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance". In addition, she has participated in multiple technical advisory groups at PAHO and WHO, on different aspects of infectious diseases.