48- Physician-Researcher & Activist Series: Ana Cristina González Vélez, MD (La Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres & Causa Justa)

How should physicians navigate the distinction between physicians as citizens vs. physicians as professionals as it relates to policy advocacy? How can we rally different social norms and regulatory frameworks toward the intended change point? How would clinical practice ignite and foster advocacy work?

In this episode, Dr. Ana Cristina González Vélez answers all these questions and delves into her journey of advocating for women’s reproductive rights! 

Ana Cristina González Vélez is a Colombian reproductive rights activist and medical doctor. She is a known international researcher, advocate, and expert in the field of sexual and reproductive health as well as gender equality. She is the founder and active member of La Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres, Colombia, the team coordinator of the Feminist group Mercosur, and the founder and coordinator of the Medical Group for the Right to Decide in Colombia.

Ana holds an MD from Pontifical Bolivarian University in Colombia, a master’s degree in social health research from the Center for Study on State and Society in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Ph.D. in Bioethics from Fiocruz Foundation in Brazil. She is currently a Fellow at the Harvard LEAD Fellowship for Promoting Women in Global Health.

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