CORE VALUES
Committed to empowering communities to lead healthy, happy lives and take control of their own health through information, knowledge, and action.
Our communities have strength and knowledge – it is our job as health professionals to listen and provide the tools for them to achieve their goals.
PASSION
CREATIVITY
EFFICIENCY
RELIABILITY
CURIOSITY
RESPECT
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
PhD Candidate - Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Doctor of Medicine, University of Costa Rica
Master in Science - Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Master in Arts - Medical Anthropology, Georgia State University
Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management & Social Enterprise, Georgia State University
Assistant Policy Researcher
RAND Corporation
Public Health Specialist
Department of Health and Social Services, State of Alaska
Program Manager
InterAmerican Center for Global Health
Campaign Manager
Costa Rica
Research Assistant
Georgia State University
Mental Health Program
The Carter Center
Primary Care Physician
CCSS, Costa Rica
Health service users' and providers' knowledge and attitudes to cervical cancer screening in Costa Rica: a qualitative study. LSHTM: 2015
Maria Gabriela Alvarado and David A. Schwartz. Zika Virus Infection in Pregnancy, Microcephaly, and Maternal and Fetal Health: What We Think, What We Know, and What We Think We Know. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine: January 2017, Vol.141, No.1, pp.26-32.
Steven Black and Gabriela Alvarado. Value, Care, and Verbal Art: Mediatizing Global Health in Costa Rica. American Anthropological Association: 2017
Sexual Education Among Indigenous Ngöbe Costa Ricans: A Tale of Two Schools. Georgia State University: 2017
Maria Gabriela Alvarado and Jorge Benavides-Rawson. From Dengue to Zika: Environmental and Structural Risk Factors for Child and Maternal Health in Costa Rica. In Maternal Health, Pregnancy-Related Morbidity and Death Among Indigenous Women of Mexico & Central America: An Anthropological, Epidemiological and Biomedical Approach, edited by David A. Schwartz: Springer, 2018.
Embedding Healthy Relationships Education in Afterschool Programs. Alaska Afterschool Conference: 2018
Feelings in the Field: The Potential Role of Emotion in Anthropological Methodology and Theory. American Anthropological Association: 2018
Words Matter: The role of language & communication in mental health. Alaska Public Health Association Annual Summit: 2019
School-based sex-ed: Beyond the curriculum. Lessons learned from Costa Rica and Alaska. National Sex Ed Conference Annual Meeting:2019.
Steven Black and Gabriela Alvarado. Global Health Education and Mediatization of Care in Costa Rica. Medical Anthropology: 2020, 39:7, 597-608.
Tomoaia-Cotisel, A, Eberhart, N., Engel, C., Mendel, P., Alvarado, G., Qureshi, N. (2020). A Process Evaluation of Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration in the Military Health System. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. RR-A677-1.