Bianca Vargas-Escamilla is a medical doctor and a doctoral level scholar in Sociomedical Sciences with a specialization in medical anthropology from the National Autonomous University in Mexico. She has over ten years of professional experience in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, and adolescent health. Her expertise spans diverse frameworks such as global-local perspectives, gender, community health, midwifery models, women-centered care, and public policy. Her additional training delves into medical education, project management for development, and bioethics. She is a professor of Medical Anthropology at the Faculty of Medicine and has been a guest lecturer, speaker, and workshop facilitator in various institutional and autonomous contexts. Notably, she served as a consultant and president of the Board of Directors for the non-profit organization Mujeres Aliadas, and held key leadership positions within the Mexico City Ministry of Health in 2019 and as Director of Maternal and Perinatal Health at the National Center for Gender Equity and Reproductive Health for the Mexico National Ministry of Health, from 2020 to 2023.