Equip ISGlobal

Anna is a Severo Ochoa Postdoctoral Fellow at ISGlobal, working across the Migrant Health group and the Science with Society Hub. 

Her research in the Migrant Health group focuses on understanding how high temperatures affect the health of migrant agricultural workers in Spain, and on co-creating solutions with migrants, policymakers, employers, and health professionals. This work has a strong participatory dimension, aiming to generate equitable, just, and sustainable responses that address the climate and occupational health challenges of this population.

Within the Science with Society Hub, Anna’s work explores how institutions can strengthen the number and quality of participatory research initiatives in their agendas. Using community-based participatory approaches, she contributes to developing a theory of change that identifies facilitators, barriers, and mechanisms for embedding participatory science in research organisations.

Anna holds a PhD in Population and Global Health from the University of Cambridge, where her research examined food acquisition and food-sharing practices in Small Island Developing States. It combined mixed-methods and participatory approaches to find ways towards more sustainable, healthy, and equitable food systems.

Anna has worked at the World Health Organization on non-communicable disease prevention and control, and has collaborated with civil society and policy advocacy organisations, including the Healthy Caribbean Coalition and The Food Foundation, among others.

Methodological interests

• Complex systems thinking
• Qualitative research
• Evidence synthesis
• Citizen science & community-based approaches

Thematic interests

• Food systems and nutrition
• NCDs and their determinants
• Informal food practices and social wellbeing
• Sustainability and resilience of health and food systems
• Equity-driven research
• History, philosophy, sociology and anthropology of food, health and medicine

Qualifications

• PhD Medical Sciences, University of Cambridge
• MSc Global Public Health Nutrition, University of Westminster
• Associate student in MA Anthropology of Food, SOAS University of London
• BSc Chemistry & BSc Biochemistry, University of Barcelona

Publicacions principals

• Brugulat-Panés, A.; Guell, C.; Unwin, N.; Martin-Pintado, C.; Iese, V.; Augustus, E.; Foley, L. Examining Food Sources and Their Interconnections over Time in Small Island Developing States: A Systematic Scoping Review. Nutrients 2025, 17, 2353. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17142353 and https://tinyurl.com/2dv2t735 
• Brugulat-Panés, A.; Foley, L.; Murphy, M. M.; Unwin, N.; Guell, C. An exploratory case study of food sharing practices in Caribbean countries through a transition lens using intergenerational dyad interviews. Globalization and Health 2024, 20, 88.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-024-01094-0
• Brugulat-Panés, A.; Randall, L.; de Sá, T.H.; Anil, M.; Kwan, H.; Tatah, L.; Woodcock, J.; Hambleton, I.R.; Mogo, E.R.I.; Micklesfield, L.; et al. The Potential for Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Transport Systems in Africa and the Caribbean: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review and Meta-Study. Sustainability 2023, 15, 5303. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15065303