Staff Bios
Andrea Rizzotti, Resident Director, supervises the administrative and academic aspects of the CIEE Study Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has an M.A. in Sociology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and an M.A. from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Social Sciences and Public Health. Her Masters thesis focused on sexual violence against women and medical practices. Having worked with CIEE since 1994, Andrea has played an integral role in shaping—and ensuring the quality of—the Buenos Aires summer program. Her academic interests include public health, gender and women, adolescents, children, and the family. She has done consulting work and bi-national research between Argentina and Uruguay, focusing on community empowerment and social participation in dengue prevention and mosquito eradication in the region.
Dr. Raúl Mercer, Program Coordinator, is a pediatrician. He earned a M.S. in Epidemiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his M.D. at the National Medicine Academy in Argentina. Dr. Mercer works as a professor at FLACSO in the Program of Social Sciences and Health and is a collaborator on several research projects. He is particularly interested in issues of health that address gender, human rights, children, and adolescence.
Students benefit from a tutor at each of the field sites who are trained to monitor and advise them in both their academic courses and fieldwork. These include Jorge Pepe (Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, Concepción del Uruguay); Raúl Pitarque (Universidad del Centro, Olavarría, Provincia de Buenos Aires); Claudia García (Universidad de Cuyo, Provincia de Mendoza); and Raúl Mercer (FLACSO).