The program aims to support evidence-based policy-making at all levels for the reduction of malaria and other parasitic diseases in high-burden areas, and to expand our current scientific understanding of the most relevant parasitic diseases affecting humans, and their host-vector interactions. We focus on malaria, Chagas and neglected tropical parasitic diseases such as soil transmitted helminths and leishmania with the ultimate goal of advancing towards disease elimination wherever feasible.
We apply methods which include epidemiology, intervention trials with drugs, vaccines and diagnostic tools and basic molecular biology and immunology. Capacity building is included at all levels. Our efforts range from local, national and global, with a focus on the highest burden areas of the world. The diverse program has international leadership in the development and evaluation of tools for malaria control in vulnerable populations, Chagas clinical care, parasite biology and immunity to malaria infection and vaccination.
Our Team
Leadership
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Quique Bassat ICREA Research Professor, Head of the Malaria Programme
Principal lnvestigators of the Programme
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Julio Alonso Padilla Assistant Research Professor and Director of the Chagas Initiative
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Alba Maria Antequera Associated Researcher
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Cristina Ballart Associated Researcher
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Azucena Bardají Associate Research Professor
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CARLOS CHACCOUR Assistant Research Professor. BOHEMIA Co-PI and Chief Scientific Officer
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Alfred Cortes Closas
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Hernando A. Del Portillo ICREA Research Professor
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Carlota Dobaño Research Professor
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Carmen Fernández Associate Research Professor
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Xavier Fernàndez Busquets
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Montserrat Gállego Associated Researcher
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Quim Gascon Research Professor, Head of the Chagas, Parasitic and Imported Diseases programme, and Director of the Chagas Initiative
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Caterina Guinovart Senior Advisor for Research and Implementation on malaria elimination
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Luis Izquierdo Associate Research Professor
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Alfredo Mayor Research Professor
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Clara Menéndez Research Professor, Director of the Maternal, Child and Reproductive Health Initiative and Programme
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Gemma Moncunill Assistant Research Professor
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Jose Muñoz Associate Research Professor
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Krijn Paaijmans Associated Researcher
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Claudio Parolo Assistant Research Professor
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Regina Rabinovich Director of the Malaria Elimination Initiative
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Davide Rasella Associate Research Professor and Head of the Health Impact Assessment Group
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Ana Requena Assistant Research Professor
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NATALIA RODRIGUEZ Associated Researcher
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Elisa Sicuri Associate Research Professor