Celia Alpuche-Aranda

She is a Pediatric Infectious Diseases physician with a PhD in Science-Microbiology and a Post-Doctoral at the Infectious Diseases Unit-Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School. In Mexico, she was an attending physician and Chief Department of Enteropathogens Laboratory at the Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gomez; coordinator of the Infectious diseases and Clinical Microbiology laboratory-Experimental Medicine Department-Medical School-UNAM, Director of the Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference Laboratory of the MOH Mexico (key element in 2009 influenza pandemic response), mentored undergraduate, master’s and PhD students. She has published more than 100 peer review manuscripts. Currently, she is director of the Research Center for Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Public Health. She participates in technical and advisory groups at the national and international level and is helping Mexico MOH in the response to COVID-19 (areas of diagnostic and vaccines) and a member of the WHO, SAGE Working group on COVID-19 vaccines.