María Kathia Cárdenas (Maki) is a researcher at CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) and she is also a lecturer in courses related to research, investment projects, and economic evaluations. She is an economist from the Universidad del Pacífico and holds a master’s degree in health economics from Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. Maki joined the CRONICAS team as a trainee in 2011, and since then has coordinated several studies, mainly focused on assessing the health system and its response to chronic diseases. Previously she worked as a research assistant and consultant on social policy, public investment projects, and environmental economics at the following think tanks in Peru: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and Centro de Investigación de la Universidad del Pacífico. Her main research interests are: health systems, health economic evaluations, demand and utilisation of health services, and public policies in health.

Publications:

• Cárdenas MK, Miranda JJ, Beran D. Delivery of Type 2 diabetes care in low- and middle-income countries: lessons from Lima, Peru. Diabet Med. 2016 Jun;33(6):752-60. doi: 10.1111/dme.13099. PMID: 27194174.
• Cardenas MK, Mirelman AJ, Galvin CJ, Lazo-Porras M, Pinto M, Miranda JJ, Gilman RH. The cost of illness attributable to diabetic foot and cost-effectiveness of secondary prevention in Peru. BMC Health Serv Res. 2015 Oct 26;15:483. doi: 10.1186/s12913-015-1141-4. PMID: 26503154; PMCID: PMC4623251.
• Cárdenas MK, Benziger CP, Pillay TD, Miranda JJ. The effect of changes in visibility and price on fruit purchasing at a university cafeteria in Lima, Peru. Public Health Nutr. 2015 Oct;18(15):2742-9. doi: 10.1017/S1368980014002730. Epub 2014 Dec 1. PMID: 25434293; PMCID: PMC5454487.

List of publications: https://nlm.gov/