Miriam Hernández

Miriam Hernández, MD, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Autonomous University of Baja California in 1988. She worked as a general practitioner for 10 years in Tijuana, BC, supporting low-income communities. She was director of the health unit of the Community Center of the Universidad Iberoamericana. During this time, she designed and implemented Health Promotor Programs. She was a professor at the School of Nursing of the Universidad Iberoamericana, teaching the subjects of rehabilitation, physiology, and research sciences. She obtained her Master’s degree in Educational Sciences from the same university. For seven years she was Visión y Compromiso’s Workforce Development Manager and is currently Director of Visión y Compromiso’s Workforce Development Department. She visited Guatemala in 2019 and 2023 to train community promotoras with the Visión y Compromiso curriculum.