Sexually transmitted diseasesReproductive healthPatricia Jannet García Funegra is a Peruvian professor of public and global health at Cayetano Heredia University.

García returned to Lima in 1997, and worked at the Ministry of Health of Peru within the National STD/AIDS Control Program, developing guidelines for management of patients with STDs.

[4] In 1999, she became Associate Professor, Vice Dean, and Coordinator of the Epidemiology, STD and HIV Unit, at the School of Public Health at UPCH.

[4][11] During her term, the Institutes developed a national programme on STDs, supported development of a critically acclaimed web-based laboratory information system (NETLAB), and placed a stronger focus on neglected diseases and environmental health issues such as human bartonellosis, hydatid disease, and traffic accidents.

García served as Regional Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Association for the Control of STIs from 2006-2011, and as President from 2011-16.

[3] She is currently a high level advisory board member of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change.