Medical Officer in charge of the Chagas disease control programme, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization.

Graduated in Medicine & Surgery by the University of Barcelona. Diploma of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene of The Royal College of Physicians of London. Master Science course Infection & Health in the Tropics by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. Doctorate (PhD) in Tropical Medicine by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.

Previously, Researcher of the Tropical Medicine Department of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute – Fiocruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro (with especial focus on Chagas disease in the Amazon basin and North-eastern region of Brazil). Guest professor of the German Navy Institute of Medicine, Kiel, Germany; University of Barcelona; Autonomous University of Barcelona; Institute Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Brazil, among others. Tropical Medicine consultant of various governmental and non-governmental institutions, such as: National Health Foundation of the Ministry of Health of Brazil; National Park of Jaú, Brazil; Médicins Sans Frontières; Pan-American Health Organization; national networks of research and surveillance on tropical/neglected diseases; among others. Member of the scientific or organizer committees of several scientific events in various countries of Europe, South and North America. Coordinator of health projects in the Brazilian Amazon basin with the German and Spanish cooperation.