María Teresa Solís-Soto obtained her Medical doctorate from the Universidad San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca (2005); Master in Public Health from the Public Health School, Universidad de Chile (2008); Master in Epidemiology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2009) and Ph.D. in Medical Research-International Health from the Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany (2013). She has worked as a professor and project tutor in various postgraduate programs at the Universidad San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca, Bolivia, and at the Center for International Health at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. She is also an Assistant Professor at the University of O’Higgins, Chile. She has deepened her knowledge of different public health issues, focusing on the epidemiology of chronic diseases and studies on health and work conditions in urban and rural areas of Latin America. She has implemented projects with a quantitative and qualitative approach, and in a particular way, community-based interventions. She is working actively in international collaborative initiatives leading research and training projects. Currently, she is a member of the Bolivian Society of Public Health; Center for International Health of the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munchen; the International Alliance against Health Risks in Wildlife Trade; and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology.