Matias Iberico completed his internal medicine residency training at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco. He was born in Lima, Peru and moved to Ohio when he was five. While in medical school he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study tuberculosis in Peruvian peri-urban slums and used that research to complete a master’s degree in public health. He is passionate about global health equity and hopes to return to Peru at some point in the future to work in medical education and health systems strengthening (while enjoying some of the world’s greatest cuisine). As a UCSF HEAL Initiative fellow, he will help build health systems that aim to eliminate illness rooted in poverty. Matias is a rotating fellow who will serve at Tséhootsooí Medical Center in Fort Defiance, Arizona and at Muso in Mali.