Sarahí Rueda-Salazar

Sarahí is Research Fellow for the ReGHID Project at the University of Southampton. Her research interests include in general epidemiology and public health, statistical methods for health research, social determinants of healthy years and life expectancies in older adult population, cognitive impairment and regional disparities among European and Latin American countries.

She is trained in statistical demography in an international framework. Sarahí attended several advanced training courses at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock, Germany); CELADE- Population Division of Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean (ECLAC-UN, Chile) and at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Venezuela). She also attended the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) at Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy). After completing her PhD on Health conditions in older adult population in Europe and Latin America at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) in 2019, she worked as Professor Associated at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Faculty of Social and Policy sciences) and as Research Fellow at Centre for Demographic Studies (Democare project) in Barcelona (Spain). She also has expertise in survey and census implementation since she worked as planner and data analyst for 5 years at National Statistical Office (Venezuela).

On ReGHID Project, Sarahí is working with Amos Channon, developing the survey implementation for returnees’ women and adolescent girls in Centro American countries (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) and conducting secondary data analyses based on SRH needs between both migratory corridors.