Jessica Otero Machuca, MPH CHES, is a doctoral student in Global Health and Development at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She is passionate about using participatory methods and principles of human-centered design in producing innovative solutions to public health issues. She is specifically interested in working with Latin American immigrants and supporting social innovation in Latin America. In doing so, she hopes to address the social determinants of health contributing to health inequities in Latin American and immigrant populations. Specifically, her goal is to address structural, systemic, and migration-related barriers contributing to negative health outcomes in Latin American populations across the Americas.
Areas of Interest
- Advocacy
- Behavior and Health
- Cancer Prevention
- Chronic Diseases
- Community Based Research
- Community Health & Development
- Global Health
- Health and Human Rights
- Health Communication
- Health Disparities
- Health Education
- Health Literacy
- Health Promotion
- Implementation Science
- Mental Health
- Multicultural Studies
- Social Determinants of Health
- Social Epidemiology
Education
- Bachelor of Science 2019, University of Florida
- Master of Public Health 2023, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Affiliations & Activities
National Commission for Health Education Credentialing
Mayo Clinic Cancer Health Equity Program
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
AACR Minorities in Cancer Research
NIH Community Engagement Against COVID-19 Disparities
Publications
- by Gargya Malla, Susan Eggly, Ann Turnlund Carver, Linnea Evans, Kathryn Hamm, Matthew Ignacio, Gillian Cross Hogg, Larry An, Jessica Otero Machuca, Allison Mathews, Sarah E. Brewer, Lorna Thorpe, Rita Larson, Smiti Nadkarni, Terry T-K Huang, Joseph N Cappella , 2024, Innovations in Community-Engaged Messaging from the Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against Covid-19 , Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health , ,
- Nathaly Aya Pastrana a,b, Sandra Agudelo-Londoño , Oscar Franco-Suarez, Jessica Otero Machuca, Deivis Nicolás Guzman-Tordecilla, María Camila López Sánchez, Mariana Rodriguez-Patarroyo, Cristhian Alejandro Rivera-Sánchez, Daniella Castro-Barbudo, Antonio J. Trujillo, Vidhi Maniar d and Andres I. Vecino-Ortiz , 2023, Improving COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a message co-design process for a national mHealth intervention in Colombia, Global Health Action , ,
- Brian G. Southwell, Jessica Otero Machuca, Sabrina T. Cherry, Melissa Burnside, and Nadine J. Barrett, 2022, Health Misinformation Exposure and Health Disparities: Observations and Opportunities , Annual Review of Public Health, ,
- Yurasek, A. M., Kemp, K., Otero Machuca, J., & Tolou-Shams, M., 2021, Substance use screening and rates of treatment referral among justice-involved youth., Addictive Behaviors, ,