Mrs. Gombi-Vaca is a Public Health Researcher and is PhD candidate at the Preventive Medicine Program of the University of São Paulo Medical School. Her work focuses on Health and Nutrition, with enphasis on the promotion of healthy and sustainable food systems. She has experience managing public health databases and using advanced statistical manipulation, such as multilevel modelling of survey clustered data. She posseses strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Portuguese. She has participated and presented scientific works at Public Health Conferences in the US and Brazil. She has experience organizing volunteers for NGOs as well as planning and executing fund-raising and other events. These endeavors focused on providing support for local agriculture, promoting food awareness and socially- and environmentally-responsible eating practices. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences from University of São Paulo (2004), an MBA in Marketing from Fundace-USP (2008), and a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Rio de Janeiro State University (2014).