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María José Arango Salazar is a lawyer trained at Universidad de los Andes, working at the intersection of public health, human rights, and regulatory law in Latin America. She is co-founder of Decilion and serves as Projects Director, leading the firm’s team and managing its consulting portfolio.

She has led legally grounded research and advisory projects for the Center for Health and Human Rights at Georgetown’s O’Neill Institute, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, Colombia Diversa, and other international partners — on topics ranging from access to medicines and sodium-reduction policy in Panama to digital health, nutrition, and health systems strengthening. She is the first author of a 14-country mixed-methods study on barriers to health care for trans people in Latin America and the Caribbean, commissioned by Colombia Diversa and the LGBT Litigants Network of the Americas and presented at the Bogotá International Book Fair.

Before Decilion, she coordinated the Pharmaceutical Industry Chamber at ANDI — Colombia’s National Business Association — and was a winter intern at the O’Neill Institute. Her undergraduate thesis analyzed Colombia’s compulsory-licensing rules for medicines under WTO and international human rights law. Her work is guided by a deep commitment to sexual and reproductive rights, access to medicines, and gender justice in Latin America.

Carolina Muñoz Benítez is a political scientist and LL.M. with expertise in public health, climate change, and environmental governance. Her professional experience includes mixed-methods research design, fieldwork, academic and science communication writing, and legal analysis.

Her research has focused on issues such as climate adaptation in the health sector, community-based forest management, and citizen participation. She co-founded the Environmental Participation Clinic at EAFIT University, where she contributed to strategic litigation aimed at advancing environmental protection and supporting local communities.

Her work has been published in World Development and the Journal of State Law.

María Paula Tamayo Quitián is a political scientist and philosopher with experience in global health research and science communication. She is currently pursuing an MSc in Social Epidemiology at University College London.

At Decilion, she has participated in consulting projects on sodium intake reduction policies in Panama, climate change adaptation in Colombia's health system, and barriers to gender-affirming care in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Her main research interests are epidemiology and socioeconomic and gender inequalities in health. She is currently researching how social support can mitigate the mental health impacts of unpaid care in the UK as part of her MSc dissertation.