Arantxa Colchero Aragonés is a Mexican economist specialized in

health economics Health economics is a branch of economics concerned with issues related to Health care efficiency, efficiency, effectiveness, value and behavior in the production and consumption of health and healthcare. Health economics is important in dete ...

. She has designed strategies in fiscal policies and product labeling, to prevent and reduce obesity. She has been working on nutrition economics for more than 10 years, as well as HIV.

Life

She graduated from

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

, National Institute of Public Health, and

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

. She was a research assistant in the Department of Epidemiology, at the

National System of Researchers Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Researchers) or SNI is a governmental agency established in Mexico in 1984 to promote both the quantity and quality of research in Mexico, especially in the sciences. In the 1980s, the countr ...

Selected works

* ''La obesidad en México, Estado de la política pública y recomendaciones para su prevención y control.'' *Aragonés, A. C., Loya, D. C., & de Cosío Martínez, T. G. 4. Costos de las prácticas inadecuadas de lactancia materna. ''Lactancia materna en México'', 59. *Gamboa Delgado, E., González de Cossío, T., Colchero Aragonés, A., Pelletier, D., Quezada, A. D., & Rodríguez Ramírez, S. (2014). Effect of a food aid program on BMI/A of Mexican children, mediated by diet (251.3). ''The FASEB Journal'', ''28'', 251–3. *Gamboa-Delgado, E. M., González de Cossío, T., & Colchero-Aragonés, A. (2016). Obesity risk in preschoolers beneficiaries of food aid programs. ''Revista de Salud Pública'', ''18''(4), 643–655. *Barrientos-Gutierrez, T., Zepeda-Tello, R., Rodrigues, E. R., Colchero-Aragonés, A., Rojas-Martínez, R., Lazcano-Ponce, E., ... & Meza, R. (2017). Expected population weight and diabetes impact of the 1-peso-per-litre tax to sugar sweetened beverages in Mexico. ''PLOS ONE'', ''12''(5), e0176336. *

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