Profile

With training in medicine and population health sciences (social sciences-qualitative research), her research focuses broadly on the biological, social and cultural factors that shape children’s and young people’s social and health outcomes. Liliana is passionate about cross-world, interdisciplinary and participatory research. Her research has moved across the lines of children’s and young people’s experiences of health and illness, health-related stigma, agency, disability studies and violence prevention and response. She is also the co-leader of Societies, Reproduction and Health, an elective course of the MPH (Master of Public Health) at Usher Institute, the University of Edinburgh

As a public health scientist, she seeks to construct more explicit linkages between social sciences and medical sciences. She hopes to mobilise evidence-and practice-based knowledge to create sustainable policy and practice change that allow children and young people have better chances of life. She combines research with medical teaching and clinical practice as a volunteer consultant in genetics in Colombia.