Javiera Flano

Chile

Global Health Science (MSc), 2014
Harris Manchester College, Oxford

Funding: Louis Dreyfus

Javiera graduated with an MSc in Global Health Science in 2014. Prior to this she qualified as a medical doctor in Santiago de Chile in 2011. While studying to become a doctor she undertook several internships, the first at a public hospital on the remote island of Chiloé, where she learnt about medical care in isolated communities. She then spent two years at a public hospital in Santiago, where she helped provide health care for the poorest communities. She has volunteered and worked in different situations and with different non profit organizations, supporting families in shanty towns to, delivering health care after natural disasters ,and as technical health advisor with the poorest and most underprivileged communities in the continent, advising on rehabilitation, nutrition and community health among others. She has also collaborated on research and teaching , regarding health and migration processes.

During the last years she was pursuing the medical specialization, becoming a family physician in early 2020. Currently she works as a family physician in a public primary care centre, as researcher in the evaluation of public health policies and during the pandemic as part of the health team of temporary nursing homes for people with COVID 19.