Cecilia Alcala

Cecilia Alcala, MPH, is a predoctoral trainee affiliated with the UNC School of Medicine and the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at UNC Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on environmental health, particularly pesticide exposure and literacy among women in Suriname.

• Training Site: Scientific Research Center, Academic Hospital Paramaribo, Suriname
• Program: UJMT/US Predoc
• Mentors: Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH; Wilco Zijlmans, MD, PhD; Jeffrey Wickliffe, PhD; Arti Shankar, PhD

Her work, supported by the NIH Fogarty scholar award, investigates pesticide levels in pregnant women and correlates exposure with health literacy and socioeconomic factors.