Martin Lajous Loaeza, MD, DSc

Martin Lajous Loaezais a physician and cancer epidemiologist focused on cancer prevention and control in Latin America. He is a faculty researcher at Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health and an adjunct professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Lajous leads the Mexican Teachers’ Cohort, a long-term study of more than 115,000 women investigating the causes and prevention of cancer and chronic disease. A member of Mexico’s National Academy of Medicine and a Level III National Researcher, he earned his MD from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and his master’s and doctoral degrees in epidemiology from Harvard. His work advances evidence-based strategies for cancer prevention and health equity across the region.