Isabel Rada

Expert peer-review of articles submitted to Journal Frontiers in Public Health for Health Education and Promotion section.

• Provided constructive comments to improve quality of different types of scientific manuscripts.
• Ensured if manuscripts comply with ethical, quality and validity standards.
• Developed Collaborative communication with Editorial Board.
• Reviewed articles for grammar, accuracy, and compliance with quality standards.

• Elaborated reports, policy briefs and papers to promote regional research priorities and practical recommendations.
• Collaborated with Senior and Fellow Researchers from LATAM and Europe to communicate emerging knowledge in Global Health field (e.g. Webinar Series, seminars, symposium).
• Leadership of Research Fellow team to accomplish administrative, research and communicational deliverables.

• Wrote and published 4 papers during PhD fellowship as first author (on genetics, cardiovascular diseases, health-related quality of life), 2 published collaborative papers, scientific presentations (5 oral communications, 6 posters, 2 seminars and pitch workshop).
• Wrote +150-page dissertation. Designed and conducted PhD project focused on non-communicable diseases which include extensive literature review, secondary analysis of population-based data and survey analysis from primary collected data.
• Interpreted and synthesized large amounts of epidemiological data in Americas for World Report on Health of Refugees and Migrants launched by World Health Organization and information platform of Pan American Health Organization.
• Supported management of National fund project according to its objectives and timelines. Besides recruitment procedures and field data collection in healthcare facilities and community-based settings (n=3.300) during both baseline and follow-up data collection.
• Provided training to field research assistants in compliance with ethical standards and good research practice principles (including protocols design for informed consent, supervision, electronic data capture and quality control measures).
• Prepared samples to detect genomic biomarkers (mRNA) in peripheral blood of cervical dissected patients (case-control study) for traineeships at Clinical Research Center, and Center for Genetic and Genomics.
• Applied genome editing (CRISPR/Cas-9) in Vero E6 and HUVEC endothelial cell lines. Followed protocols to test gene expression (RT-qPCR) in context of Andes Hanta Virus traineeship.
• Reviewed assignments, designed evaluation instruments and progress report, and mentored PhD students of Epidemiology study design and Research Methodologies Applied to Implementation Science courses.

• Wrote and published 4 scientific papers as first or second author including systematic literature review on exercise immunology, metabolic syndrome and original pieces of sports supplements and exercise performance. Besides 2 poster presentations.
• Assisted research projects on exercise physiology, cardio-metabolic and neurological fields.
• Responsible for assisting biopsy sample collection, storage and western blot analysis.
• Performed clinical measures and monitoring of participants subjected to exercise interventions.
• Applied physiological and performance measurements to healthy population, subjects with medical conditions and athletes.

• Conducted non-invasive cardiopulmonary tests with respiratory gas measurements (VO2), lactate threshold test, blood biomarkers and vital signs monitoring to untrained individuals and athletes.
• Collected and Interpreted data for further clinical intervention plans and health education.
• Detected contraindications and abnormal patient responses to exercise when testing.

• Designed and updated instructional materials, and utilized various learning modalities to enhance instruction for 3 undergraduates course including Pathophysiology, Assessment and Diagnosis in Cardio-Respiratory Physiotherapy and Physiotherapy in Cardiology.
• Provided skill demonstrations for case-based clinical analysis, clinical logs, decision-making, patient health teaching, pharmacology in physiotherapy and cardio-respiratory assessment.
• Conducted clinical simulations and provided constructive feedback to promote patient safety.
• Supervised 2 undergraduate thesis and instructed good clinical research practices.

• Tracked records, academic documents and maintained communication between students to manage courses activities.
• Managed courses schedule in compliance with academic calendar and arrange timely evaluations with professors.
• Collected and reported data to support accreditation process of Master in Health and Sport Sciences.
• Created material and practical exercises in laboratory settings to illustrate application of exercise physiology course concepts.
• Designed quizzes, tests and projects to assess undergraduate student knowledge on exercise physiology with cased-based methodology.
• Supervised and co-supervised 2 master thesis (Sports sciences and clinical exercise physiology).

• Completed and published Systematic Review and meta-analysis as second-author on muscle activity onset in patients with ligament-knee injuries (literature selection, extraction, qualitative synthesis, data analysis and figure edition).
• Attended training for writing skills and literature synthesis.
• Assisted electronic data capture of patient log and clinical assessment for Anterior Cruciate Ligament injuries Project
• Assisted clinical research scientists during subject's intervention and data collection according to protocol.
• Participated in lab meetings and project presentations.