University of Alabama at Birmingham
Division of Preventive Medicine
MT 101, 1530 3rd Avenue South
Birmingham
ALUSA
35205
Biographical Sketch: Isabel Garcés-Palacio is a cancer researcher, Latino health advocate, and post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Preventive Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She completed undergraduate studies in Nutrition at Javeriana University in Colombia (B.S. in 1996) and graduate studies in Public Health at UAB (MPH in 2004 and DrPH in 2009). Dr. Garcés-Palacio has received several honors, and awards, including a Fulbright scholarship in 2002 and the Outstanding Doctoral Student award in 2009 from UAB’s School of Public Health. She has extensive research and clinical experience with underserved populations in the United States and Colombia, focusing primarily on cervical cancer prevention and family planning among Latinas. She has published a number of papers and has given posters and oral presentations at national seminars and conferences. Dr. Garcés-Palacio is fluent in Spanish and English and has been a featured speaker on Alabama and national radio stations on topics such as healthy eating habits for the prevention of chronic diseases, and family planning. She is also peer reviewer in several scientific journals.