Dulce Alarcón-Yaquetto
PhD student
Research interests
- Mental Health
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
Contact details
Biography
Dulce is currently a PhD student under the supervision of Professor Khalida Ismail. Her doctoral research aims to find the triggers and accelerators of type 2 diabetes-related costs from a healthcare and societal perspective, focusing on how health inequalities affect these costs. She is funded by the ESRC LISS-DTP partnership. Prior to joining King's, she was a research associate at the Knowledge and Evidence Unit, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Peru, where her research ranged from physiology to biomedical informatics with an emphasis on the health of high-altitude populations. Dulce holds a Master’s degree in Biomedical Informatics and a Bachelor's degree in Biology from UPCH.
Research
Diabetes, Psychiatry & Psychology
The group has a unique and internationally recognised collaboration with the Diabetes Research Group at KHP.
The SOUth London Diabetes (SOUL-D) Study
SOUL-D is a prospective cohort study of the association between depression and diabetes outcomes in people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes.
Project status: Ongoing
Research
Diabetes, Psychiatry & Psychology
The group has a unique and internationally recognised collaboration with the Diabetes Research Group at KHP.
The SOUth London Diabetes (SOUL-D) Study
SOUL-D is a prospective cohort study of the association between depression and diabetes outcomes in people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes.
Project status: Ongoing