About me


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Contact

Kevin Martinez-Folgar, MD, PhD.
kmfolgar [at] umich [dot] edu
Impact Scholar Center for Global Health Equity, School of Medicine
University of Michigan

Dr. Kevin Martinez-Folgar is a physician and epidemiologist with expertise in chronic disease epidemiology and prevention. Dr. Martinez-Folgar is currently an Impact Scholar (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) with the Center For Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan. Dr. Martinez-Folgar trained as a physician in the University of San Carlos of Guatemala, and hold a PhD in Epidemiology from the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. He also received training in measures of physical activity for population health from the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. He has experience using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in geospatial analysis and multilevel analysis. He has conducted research on chronic diseases and urban environments but also related to political engagement with stakeholders.

Dr. Martinez-Folgar has published 12 manuscripts in indexed journals, and his research has covered mortality and life expectancy across Latin American cities [4], healthcare access [1], or the health consequences of urban scaling. Also, Dr. Martinez-Folgar published the first description of excess mortality in Guatemala [3] and collaborated with other researchers to publish the first comparison of excess mortality across Latin American countries [2]. Dr Martinez-Folgar had a first-hand experience during his clinical training of how healthcare access limitations and the social determinants of health have shaped the health of populations, particularly in underserved populations. This experience has created a strong motivation to do population health research and policy advocacy to lead change. In the future, he would seek a postdoctoral position which would prepare him for a prospective academic appointment where he can better develop his research agenda while training public health professionals.

References

  1. Mullachery P, Rodriguez D, Miranda J, López-Olmedo N, Martinez-Folgar K, Barreto M, Diez Roux A, Bilal U. Mortality amenable to healthcare in Latin American cities: a cross-sectional study examining between-country variation in amenable mortality and the role of urban metrics. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2022 February 01; 51(1):303-313. Available from: https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/51/1/303/6335778 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyab137

  2. Lima E, Vilela E, Peralta A, Rocha M, Queiroz B, Gonzaga M, Piscoya-Díaz M, Martinez-Folgar K, García-Guerrero V, Freire F. Investigating regional excess mortality during 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in selected Latin American countries. Genus. 2021 November 03; 77(1):-. Available from: https://genus.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41118-021-00139-1 DOI: 10.1186/s41118-021-00139-1

  3. Martinez-Folgar K, Alburez-Gutierrez D, Paniagua-Avila A, Ramirez-Zea M, Bilal U. Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Guatemala. American Journal of Public Health. 2021 October; 111(10):1839-1846. Available from: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306452 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306452

  4. Bilal U, Alazraqui M, Caiaffa W, Lopez-Olmedo N, Martinez-Folgar K, Miranda J, Rodriguez D, Vives A, Diez-Roux A. Inequalities in life expectancy in six large Latin American cities from the SALURBAL study: an ecological analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2019 December; 3(12):e503-e510. Available from: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2542519619302359 DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(19)30235-9

Complete List of Published Work in My Bibliography:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/kevin.martinez-folgar.1/bibliography/public/