Position: Staff
Collaborating Partner
Carolina Bolaños Palmieri is the Director of Programs at Child Family Health International (CFHI), a United Nations-recognized nonprofit organization specializing in ethical global health experiential education. In this role, she leads the development of competency-based, appropriately scoped virtual and place-based programs in collaboration with CFHI’s 100+ academic partners and teams across 10 countries. Carolina also serves as the Associate Director for the InterAmerican Center for Global Health, where she designs and facilitates interdisciplinary curricula and programs that emphasize ethical and community-centered learning.
Carolina integrates her expertise in global health education with her background in Nutrition. As a registered dietitian, she is a passionate advocate for leveraging food to bridge sustainability, health, and equity, reflected in her work on sustainable food systems and food policy. She is a founding member of the NGO Costa Rica Saludable, which focuses on advancing national health policies for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases. Additionally, she consults on research and project implementation for the Costa Rican Network for the Reduction of Food Losses and Waste.
Carolina has a Bachelor’s and a licentiate degree in Nutrition from the University of Costa Rica and holds a master’s degree in Global Health from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health and the University of Barcelona.
