Alhelí Calderón-Villarreal, MD, MPH, is a PhD candidate at the Joint Doctorate Program in Public Health, Global Health at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and San Diego State University (SDSU). She graduated from medical school at the State University of Coahuila (UAdeC), and with honors from MPH at the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) in Mexico. She has special training on social and behavioral sciences, global health, and migration. She has interests in social determinants of health, health equity, social and environmental justice, gender equity, health policies, mental health, intersectionality, migration, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) access, including menstrual health, among vulnerable population such as people who inject drugs, refugees, deportees, and homeless populations. She has published papers in academic journals such as Social Science & Medicine, International Journal for Equity in Health, Revista Panamericana de la Salud, The Lancet and Regional Health – Americas, Health Policy OPEN, and Annals of Emergency Medicine. She awarded a Doctoral Studies Abroad Scholarship from the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico, and a Diversity Supplement from the national Institute of Drug Abuse (UCSD) linked with the La Frontera binational cohort study (PI: Strathdee). She is currently a Graduate Student Researcher at UCSD Health, and had been lecturer and teaching assistant in universities in Mexico and in the US.