Fatima Munoz
Associate Vice President of Health Support Services, San Ysidro Health
County: San Diego
Dr. Fatima Muñoz is the Associate Vice President of Health Support Services at San Ysidro Health, a high performing Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providing care in San Diego County. She completed her medical and Master’s in Public Health training in Mexico and a postdoctoral training in the Division of Global Public Health, University of California San Diego. She possesses over 20 years of public health and clinical research experience working in health promotion programs and epidemiological research studies, specifically among underserved populations.
Fatima has extensive experience engaging a variety of public health issues and building strong bridges between public health, government, and academic leaders on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Her research over the last years has focused on chronic and infectious disease epidemiology, specifically, HIV prevention and tuberculosis care, and the impact of bi-national access to care on health policy. Her research experience involves the use of community-based participatory research with an emphasis in the elimination of health disparities. Fatima has also experience in examining the potential of Health technology integration into existing health services in order to improve treatment adherence and reduce the burden of high priority diseases, such as diabetes, T,B and HIV.
Fatima and her team have been contributing to the development and implementation of several programs to engage populations that have been underrepresented in biomedical research – specifically Spanish-speaking communities. She has also been a site PI and Co-I in multiple clinical studies aimed at understanding and eliminating health disparities in underserved populations. Most recently, Dr. Muñoz has been a member of the Advisory Council for the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM), by recommendation from the California State Senate. She is committed to expanding the mission of SYH to further address health disparities and access to care issues among our most vulnerable communities.
