Dra. Maria Dolores Ramírez is a pediatrician with a Master of Science in Reproductive Health and has been a Professor–Researcher at the National Institute of Public Health (Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, INSP).Her career integrates clinical practice, epidemiology and public health research with a primary focus on women’s cardiometabolic health across the life courseDra Ramirez recent funded research project examines cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women, emphasizing sex-specific determinants such as obstetric history (preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth), nutritional status (including vitamin B12 deficiency and hyperhomocysteinemia), and traditional cardiometabolic risk factors (obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia). Her approach integrates population-based survey data, clinical measures and policy-oriented economic analyses to identify high-impact, scalable prevention strategies.Dr Ramirez has supervised master’s students, and she has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on varios competitively funded grants, including Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) multicenter verbal autopsy project and Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation (Secihti). Her peer-reviewed publications as principal investigator or co-investigator include several original articles and book chapters. She actively participates in multidisciplinary networks that bridge nutrition, reproductive health and cardiovascular.