Natalia Palacios is an epidemiologist with over 10 years of experience in epidemiological studies of neurological disease. She is currently working as Associate Professor in Public Health department at Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences.

Her research interests include traditional neuro-epidemiology, as well as the role of the microbiome and metabolomics in brain health. Palacios collaborates extensively with investigators at the Harvard School of Public Health, in the Department of Veterans Affairs and at UMass Chan Medical School.

Natalia holds a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from Harvard University.