Dr Miguel Cordero Vega
Child Psychologist and Population Health Scientist
Dr Miguel Cordero Vega is a child psychologist and population health scientist with extensive experience ranging from frontline service delivery to national-level management and scientific research. He is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Science and Innovation in Medicine (ICIM), Universidad del Desarrollo, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Population Health Sciences Institute, University of Bristol.
His work integrates clinical practice, life-course epidemiology, and public policy research. He served at the Chilean Ministry of Health, where he coordinated the national early childhood development policy Chile Crece Contigo, contributing to the design and implementation of large-scale family support programmes. He has participated in studies funded by IDRC, UNICEF, and the World Bank, including randomised controlled trials, longitudinal observational studies, and research conducted in emergency contexts.
More recently, he has led the scientific coordination of the Population Health Laboratory (LHP), supported by the ANID Academy Installation Grant (2023–2025), and is advancing national and international collaborations to build a Trusted Research Environment (TRE-LHP) to enable the secure use of personal health data for research.
Within GLOW-CAT Chile, he will focus on cross-sector collaboration in health and education to ensure a safe and effective pathway for the scaling up of OSI, as well as equitable access to digital mental-health supports.
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