Rebeca Robles is a Psychologist and a medical science researcher at the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz (INPRFM) in Mexico, where she coordinates the Center for Global Mental Health Research, a collaboration of the INPRFM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and the World Health Organization. She is also professor in Psychiatry, Medical Sciences and Psychology graduate programs, of the Medicine and Psychology Faculties of UNAM; and a level 3 member of the National System of Researchers, National Council of Sciences, Humanities and Technology (CONACHYT), Mexico. Dr. Robles has an extensive record with over 300 publications and has received numerous awards, including the 2015 Research Award in the area of Humanities from the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
Over the past decades, her academic work has focused on three lines of research: 1) the evaluation of the clinical utility of the latest version of the World Health Organization classification of mental disorders (ICD-11); 2) the depathologization of the transgender condition, through the international leadership of the ICD-11 field studies, which served as evidence to eliminate the related diagnostic categories from its chapter of mental disorders; and 3) the remote identification and treatment of mental health problems of health workers in the face of the COVID-19 contingency in Mexico.