astronomy

Patricia J. García

Patricia J. García is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Patricia J. García rather than just read about it. In short: Patricia Jannet García Funegra is a Peruvian professor of public and global health at Cayetano Heredia University. She originally trained as a clinician before focusing on research and public health.

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Reference excerpt

Patricia Jannet García Funegra is a Peruvian professor of public and global health at Cayetano Heredia University. She originally trained as a clinician before focusing on research and public health. Her work also focuses on reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases, and medical informatics. In 2016-17 García was the Minister of Health of Peru. She was the first Peruvian to be elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

Early life García was born in Lima, Peru to parents Olga Funegra Marcellini, a housewife, and Humberto García Taylor, a journalist. Her mother had emigrated from Huánuco.

Education García graduated from medical school at Cayetano Heredia University in 1988, becoming the first in her family to obtain a university degree. She later completed a Masters in Public Health (MPH), Epidemiology in 1998 at the University of Washington (UW) School of Public Health. In 2011, García completed a PhD at Cayetano Heredia University (UPCH).

Career In 1991, García moved to the US for a clinical residency program at Jackson Memorial Hospital with the University of Miami, and was Chief Medical Resident for 1993–94. She moved to Seattle as a postdoctoral fellow in infectious diseases at the University of Washington. She was encouraged to work here by Dr. King Holmes, who became García’s mentor. At UW she began training with the Fogarty International Centre International AIDS Research and Training Program. She stayed at UW to undertake a Masters in Public Health. García returned to Lima in 1997, and worked at the Ministry of Health of Peru within the National STD/AIDS Control Program, developing guidelines for management of patients with STDs. In 1999, she became Associate Professor, Vice Dean, and Coordinator of the Epidemiology, STD and HIV Unit, at the School of Public Health at UPCH. She was granted full professorship in 2004. García helped establish the Global Health Demonstration Program at UPCH in 2006. This National Institutes of Health-funded program aimed to support training of global health scholars, improve inclusion of researchers from the Global South in global health policy making, and strengthen the use of research in policy making. She was also the Chief of Peru's National Health Institutes from 2006-2008, the first woman in the country to hold that position. During her term, the Institutes developed a national programme on STDs, supported development of a critically acclaimed web-based laboratory information system (NETLAB), and placed a stronger focus on neglected diseases and environmental health issues such as human bartonellosis, hydatid disease, and traffic accidents. In 2011, García became Dean of the School of Public Health at UPCH, a position she held until 2016. During this time she helped introduce a new undergraduate training program in Public Health and Global Health at the university. She held a Menschel Senior Leadership Fellowship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2018; teaching a course on leadership and development in global health. García served as Regional Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Association for the Control of STIs from 2006-2011, and as President from 2011-16. She has also served on WHO committees for topics including reproductive health and human papillomavirus vaccines. She is currently a high level advisory board member of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change.

Other activities University of Washington, Member of the External Advisory Board of the Department of Global Health WomenLift Health, Member of the Global Advisory Board Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Member of the Board (–2021)

Awards and honours García became the first Peruvian to be elected to US National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Patricia J. García

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Patricia J. García claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Patricia J. García before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Patricia J. García ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Patricia J. García

In research: Patricia J. García appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Patricia J. García in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Patricia J. García is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academics from Lima, Cayetano Heredia University alumni, Living people, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Patricia J. García outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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