Zulma M. Cucunubá is the Director of the Public Health Institute and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology both at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. She is also an Honorary Lecturer at the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London. Her research focuses on using statistical and mathematical models to understand infectious disease spread and the impact of interventions with a particular focus on Latin America. 

Zulma is a medical doctor, with a master's degree in public health and a doctorate in epidemiology of infectious diseases. Additionally, he has carried out postdoctoral stays at the Vaccine Impact Modeling Consortium and at the MRC-Center for Global Disease Analysis in Imperial College London.

Zulma co-leads the Epiverse TRACE-LAC initiative, concentrating on open-source software development, analytics, and training programmes for public health crises. 

Zulma is part of Collaboratory Technical Advisory Group at the WHO Hub for Pandemic and the Lancet Commission for Strengthening the Use of Epidemiological Modelling of Emerging and Pandemic Infectious Diseases.

Zulma has provided assistance to the national and subnational Colombian government in formulating effective strategies during the COVID-19 crisis. Furthermore, her work encompasses building and testing models for various vector-borne and vaccine-preventable diseases. She has worked in collaborations with the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), the World Health Organization, (WHO) and global modelling consortia such as the Vaccine Impact Modeling Consortium (VIMC) and the NTD-modelling consortium (NTD-MC).