National Faculty of Public Health

Notable Projects

• 2006: General fertility rates of the population affiliated to the Colombian Contributory and Subsidized Regimes. Colombia, 2006. Asociación Colombiana de Empresas de Medicina Integral (Colombian Association of Integral Medicine Companies - ACEMI).
• Assessment of the nutritional status in children and adolescents aged under 17 from the municipalities of the Department of Antioquia. Start date: November 2013 End date: May 2015.
• 2018-2019: Air pollution and its impacts on the health of the inhabitants of the Aburra Valley 2008-2015 and 2008-2017.  Funded by the Metropolitan Area of the Aburra Valley.
• Baseline resilience of the Department of Antioquia by sub-regions in 2018.

Main Research Results

• The research findings carried out with the Metropolitan Area of ​​the Aburra Valley on the link between air pollution and health are the base for establishing the air action plan for 2030, which contains a set of strategies to reduce pollution levels and improve air quality in the Aburra Valley in the short, medium, and long term.
• The research findings carried out on the elderly reached a milestone at a departmental and municipal level. The meager living and health conditions of the elderly population — research findings carried out by former members and current members of the group — were the basis so that health institutions in the city support public health interventions on this group: the creation of observatories, gerontological care, and life centers, among others.

Research Portafolio