Teaching & Mentoring

Teaching & mentoring

Teaching is where research methodology becomes a habit of mind. I have led courses in epidemiology, biostatistics, systematic reviews, and scientific writing, and advised graduate theses in epidemiology and public health.

Teaching

Instructional Student Assistant, PH 623: Epidemiological Methods

School of Public Health, San Diego State University. Supporting instruction under Dr. Heather Pines.

Foundations of the Immune System

Guest lecture, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. A two-hour session taught annually for five consecutive years.

Research Methodology and Statistics for Health Sciences Research

Course lead, endorsed by the Education Department of the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER). 38 hours.

Systematic Reviews in Health Sciences

Course lead, endorsed by INER. 40 hours.

Research Methodology

Course lead, endorsed by INER. 20 hours.

Scientific Writing

Taught within the medical specialty in epidemiology, Dirección General de Epidemiología (DGE). 20 hours.

Research methodology, problem prioritization, and logical framework

Theoretical and practical workshops in the epidemiology specialty, DGE. 20 hours.

Thesis advising & mentoring

Luis Eduardo Hernández Olvera

Cost-effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis in reducing new HIV cases in Mexico City, 2021-2022.

Specialty thesis in Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, UNAM.

Noé Hernández Valdivia

Spatial analysis of malaria transmission in Chiapas and its relationship to epidemiologic, demographic, and social characteristics, 2016-2021.

Specialty thesis in Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, UNAM.

Samuel Ehécatl Schulz Medina

Role of the stage of infection in the transmission dynamics of the HIV genetic network in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, 2021-2022. Graduated with honorable mention; the work was later published.

Specialty thesis in Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, UNAM.

Juan Carlos Anguiano Velázquez

Design proposal for the ELSSA strategy of the Mexican Institute of Social Security.

Master of Public Health thesis, Escuela de Salud Pública de México.

Medical doctors in University Service in Research

Mentored three generations of research-service physicians (fall 2021, fall 2022, spring 2023).

Bachelor's dissertation synod

Served as synod for a bachelor-degree dissertation with a real patient, Medical School, UNAM.

Science communication

Beyond formal courses, I like making research feel less distant. I built a blog on research methodology for upper-level students, with the motto "closer to science," and another on technology in education, gathering the basics of study design, research protocols, and epidemiological methods in plain language.