Dr.Andia is an economist and historian from the Universidad de los Andes with a Masters in Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD in Sociology from Brown University. Her thesis “Bureaucrats against the State: the making of pharmaceutical policy in Latin America” compares the experience of Brazil and Colombia from the 1990s to today and analyzes the leading role played by experts in public health and other fields, temporary visitors to the State, they played in the design of the pharmaceutical policies of both countries. In addition to my PhD in Sociology, I completed the Graduate Program in Development at the Watson Institute at the same university. She joined the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad de los Andes to contribute to the creation and implementation of the option and the master's and undergraduate programs in sociology. Before that, Dr.Andia worked at the Center for Interdisciplinary Development Studies (CIDER) at the Universidad de los Andes, first as director of academic programs and later as a professor.  She has always been interested in the political economy of development, particularly as it relates to health inequalities, the tensions between global economic integration and the guarantee of social rights, and the theories of the state and social movements. She was an advisor to the Minister of Health for pharmaceutical policy, administrative editor of the journal Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID) and has carried out consulting projects for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on drug prices, health litigation and intellectual property and public health standards.  Currently, Dr.Andia coordinates the "Visible Health" project, which was created with a group of students from different faculties to investigate and make visible the fundamental elements and events of the Colombian Health System, in order to transform said knowledge into information for public consumption and plausible recommendations. of public policy.