Gabriela Asturias He has been recognized in Spain with the International Princess of Girona award in the research category, A distinction that adds to a curriculum that began to arm himself in the American universities of Duke and Stanford, where his work as a doctor is currently combined and the research and from where it has promoted initiatives that provide health orientation to millions of people in Guatemala or mental health platforms that grant support to millions of people in the United States.
Cited as One of the most influential women in Central America By the world’s oldest technology magazine – that of the Massachusetts Institute (MIT) -, by Forbes or Bloomberg magazine, due to scientific leadership and the innovative projects he has promoted, Gabriela Asturias stops, in an interview with the EFE agency after the Princess of Girona prize failure, to detail How tries to have an impact on the most needy and vulnerable societies everything learned.
Inclusive Science, Education, Technology and Health
And talks about “Inclusive science, education, technology and health” as the four pillars on which their professional work, their research and entrepreneurship are based onto then emphasize the importance of facilitating access to quality scientific and health information, in the need to empower women and girls, and channel medical and technological advances for the benefit of all people regardless of where they live or their literacy level.
To that end, the Foundation develops Guatemala for Education and Health (Fundegua), which in 2020, in full pandemic, launched the “Alma” project To answer, through a system based on artificial intelligence, to the most common questions that people could have about COVID, to give instructions and simple based on scientific evidence, and to clear the doubts or reluctance that people could have before the arrival of the first vaccines.
The project has evolved to provide general health and science information or provide practical information about health services available in Guatemalafrom where he already thinks of exporting this technology to other countries, and that has been complemented, in addition to a virtual assistant based on artificial intelligence, with attention through social networks and personalized call centers that are treated in Spanish and in different Mayan languages.
Formed as neuroscientific and specialized in psychiatry, Gabriela Asturias is also the scientific director of the “Miralesource” platform, also based on artificial intelligence and tries to help millions of Americans find the mental health service most appropriate and close and that “accompanies” its users throughout its therapeutic tour.
The “magic” of combining knowledge and logistics support
“I’m still forming and looking for a way to return to my country everything learned out,” Gabriela Asturias told Efe, who influenced the importance of facilitating access to quality and clear information so that anyone can make the “most sensible” decisions, and in relevance (“Magic”, calls it) to combine scientific knowledge to clear doubts, fears or insecurities with the most practical or logistics information that anyone needs.
He also valued the possibility that he currently has to work in the United States with very vulnerable population groups, with communities of immigrants or with people who otherwise have access to health systems, as well as the possibility, “the privilege”, which has to rotate by clinics that offer treatment in Spanish, which allows it to reconnect with its origins.
“I would like to think that many of the things we are doing, even if they are a grain of sand, are contributing to make this world a little,” confessed Gabriela Asturias, and puts the help, professionalism and contribution of many professionals from their country of origin and among them of several women who are developing their work in the field of promotion of public health and science and weaving a network that they hope to consolidate and expound to other Latin American countries.