Fatima Muñoz de Flores

Fatima Muñoz joined San Ysidro Health as the Director of the Research and Health Promotion Department in 2016, as she was recently promoted as the Associate Vice President of Health Support Services. She completed her medical and Master’s in Public Health training in Mexico and postdoctoral training in the Division of Global Public Health, University of California San Diego with over 15 years of health promotion and research experience focused on epidemiology and implementation of health prevention programs specifically among underserved communities. Fatima has extensive experience engaging a variety of public health issues and building strong bridges between public health, government, and academic leaders on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Her research over the last years has focused on chronic and infectious disease epidemiology, specifically, HIV prevention and tuberculosis care, and the impact of bi-national access to care on health policy. Her research experience involves the use of community-based participatory research with an emphasis on the elimination of health disparities.