30/09/2024
Farewell to President Professor Jane Clarke
Francisca studied psychology at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. From 2011 to 2015 she trained and worked as a clinician with adolescents diagnosed with a first psychotic break, adults living with HIV, and parents navigating the child protection services in Chile. During this time, Francisca received an honours scholarship and completed a master’s degree in contemporary thought at Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad Diego Portales.
While working as a clinician, Francisca developed an interest in public health policy and social justice. In 2015 moved to London to pursue further postgraduate studies. She completed a master’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics of health at UCL. Her research focused on chronic diseases and the reproduction of disadvantages within universal health coverage systems. She continued to develop this work in her doctoral studies with Professor James Wilson and Professor Sonu Shamdasani.
While completing her PhD, Francisca was a member of the IME Bioethics Student Committee. She presented her work at the Postgraduate Bioethics Conference in 2018, the European Association of Medical Ethics Conference in 2019, the VALUEMED Conference in 2019, and the World Congress of Bioethics in 2020 and 2022. Her work has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Medical Ethics, BMJ Medical Humanities, and Globalization and Health. Francisca received her PhD in public health ethics and chronic disease from UCL in 2021.
In 2021, Francisca joined the Department of Public Health and Primary Care as a research associate in the CanRisk project funded by Cancer Research UK. She works on the implementation of multifactorial breast cancer risk prediction tools in different clinical settings. Her work has been published by the peer-reviewed journals British Journal of General Practice and the British Journal of Cancer.
