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"The Challenge of Multi-resilience Among the Mexican Population"

Silvia Mejía is a Full Professor at the Population Studies department at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Mexico, and is an active member of the Mexico’s National System of Researchers since 2009. She has a B.A. (Psychology) from the University of San Buenaventura in Medellín, Colombia, and an M.S. (Psychobiology) and Ph.D. (Psychology-Neuroscience) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Dr. Mejia’s research agenda focuses on the epidemiology and measurement of population cognitive aging, particularly in Mexican and Mexican-American populations. She has served as a consultant for the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) for more than 15 years and recently, for the MHAS Cognitive Aging Ancillary Study (Mex-Cog) in collaboration with the harmonized cognitive assessment protocol (HCAP) initiative of the Health and Retirement Studies (HRS) sister studies. She has completed recent work on cognitive impairment and dementia in collaboration with researchers from different institutions in Mexico, Colombia, and the U.S.

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