Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza

Dr. Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza, Ph.D., is a scientist facilitating healthy living and better public health services. Dr. Pinero de Plaza strengthens researchers, clinicians, industry, and consumers' abilities to design, measure, and accomplish different health and social impacts. Her experience in mix-methods, experimental design, and evaluation helps her identify and demonstrate how interventions, healthcare services, and technology can provide better choice, inclusion, voice, justice, health, and wellbeing. She engages stakeholders as co-researchers because she believes they are fundamental for developing and implementing transdisciplinary evidence-based solutions to address complex and adaptive health and care problems. She is passionate about care and social networks, technology, and methods influencing behavioral change.

Over the last two years and the emerging, Dr. Pinero de Plaza has been:

• Publishing and contributing to knowledge via 54 research outputs, more than 17 Research articles, and publications, several of them within Q1 Journals and/or prestigious knowledge outlets like:
  • BMJ open,
  • PLOS ONE,
  • European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes,
  • The International Journal of Qualitative Methods,
  • Health Research Policy and Systems,
  • Frontiers,
  • The Journal of Clinical Nursing,
  • JBI evidence synthesis,
  • Nursing Philosophy,
  • Telemedicine and e-Health,
  • Health Promotion International, and others.
• Attracting resources: more than AUD 1,720,102.3 from National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Partnership Grant (Associate Investigator, AI), Caring Futures Institute (CFI) COVID-19 grant (Chief Investigator, CI), 2 CFI accelerator grants (one as CI and other as AI), The Hospital Research Foundation (AI), and Flinders Foundation Health Seed Grant (CI); and she is waiting to hear from other NHMRC applications.