Psychologist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, 1991), a Master Degree in Social Psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (UAB, 1994), and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (UAB, 1997). She is Director of area on Determinants and Challenges of the Health Systems of the Center for Health Systems Research at the INSP; she is leader of the research line “Equity in health and Migration” and Co-coordinator of Health of Indigenous Populations Institutional Program. Her fields of interest are the health system's answer to meet the health needs of indigenous peoples and elderly, interculturality in health and equity in health. She has been appointed as a researcher in Medical Sciences "F" of the National Institutes of Health, and is a National Researcher Level 2 of the National System of Researchers.