Natalia Ortega, PhD

Natalia Ortega is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (US), and a visiting researcher at the #PopHealthLab. She holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in Pharmacy from the University of Barcelona (Spain) and an MSc in Global Health from the same university. She earned her PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM) at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Her PhD focused on the effect of dairy intake on cognitive function, with an emphasis on using diverse methods for causal inference.

Her current research at BWH investigates the effect of ultraprocessed food reformulation policies on cardiovascular disease, applying novel causal inference methods. She is also re-analyzing clinical trial data to estimate per-protocol effects relevant for decision-making.

Epidemiology, nutrition, causal inference, clinical trials

ORCID: 0000-0003-4511-5795