Of Mixteco-Zapotec origin, Dr Gabriela Martínez Aguilar holds a PhD in Regional and Technological Development from the Tecnológico Nacional de México. Since 2014, she has been documenting the field of traditional medicine and its healing practices in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, with the aim of highlighting the urgency of its legal protection from the perspective of the intellectual property held by indigenous communities and their holders of traditional knowledge: healers, midwives, herbalists. She has also documented some of the local responses that traditional medicines in rural contexts provided to face the different health challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic, after having been left out of government medical services. From a postdoctoral research at the Centro de Investigaciones en Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Pacífico Sur, she participates in the project “Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene” and from Medical Anthropology perspective, she seeks not only to contribute to the study on the affectations that anthropocentric activity has been systematically causing in the rural societies way of life, particularly to women and their families whose socioeconomic activities are linked to agricultural practices, but also to investigate the impacts on their health through an interdisciplinary perspective.