Fernanda Marquez-Padilla is Assistant Professor of Economics at El Colegio de Mexico. She is an applied microeconomist and her work mainly focuses on the intersection of development and health economics.  Her research explores the effects of policies on health, development, and wellbeing, and she has also worked on the socio-economic determinants of health. In some of her other work she has also studied newborn health and determinants of birth outcomes, fertility, patient behaviour, and youth obesity. Prior to joining El Colegio de Mexico, she was an assistant professor of economics at CIDE.  She received a PhD in Economics from Princeton University.