WHO WE ARE

Specialist with more than 30 years’ experience in managing non-profit organisations and health programs in international cooperation and humanitarian assistance. He has worked with the Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona (ISGlobal), the Centro de Investigación en Salud Internacional de Barcelona (CRESIB) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Spain, Latin America, the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa.
He is coordinator and lecturer of the master’s degree in Global Health at the University of Barcelona and a lecturer at other universities in Spain and Morocco.

An architect with more than 30 years’ experience in managing international cooperation programmes in Africa and Latin America, specialised in the design and management of healthcare and social health structures and services in low and middle income countries. He has promoted and coordinated international associations between public and private institutions to develop health strategies and programmes.

Social Anthropologist and Researcher with more than 15 years’ experience. Specialised in working with migrants and displaced persons in Latin America and Spain in programmes to improve their integration and access to health and social services. She has worked with the Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona, Doctors Without Borders and Action Against Hunger.
She also holds a master’s degree in International Cooperation and Development (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) and a master’s degree in Water Resources Management (Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala).

Humanitarian professional with more than 20 years’ experience in managing and assessing crisis and development programs, with a special focus on violence, conflicts, forced migration and human rights. She has worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, and has collaborated in reintegration programmes with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).
She holds a master’s degree in Violence, Conflicts and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and has published papers in the Journal of Disasters, among others.

Agricultural Engineer with more than 20 years’ experience in the coordination of cooperation projects in the fields of health, human rights, gender and strengthening of civil society with AECID, EuropeAid, Fundación Clínic and the ISGLOBAL in the Maghreb and Latin America.
As a consultant, she specialises in global health, sexual and reproductive health, migration, and the integration of gender and environmental approaches in development programmes. She holds a master’s degree in Humanitarian Action (Universidad Abierta de Cataluña) and a diploma in Health Systems (Universidad de Barcelona).

He is in charge of operations at Azyr Santé, subsidiary of the Mohammed VI Foundation, where he is developing a national network of hospital assistance and diagnostics centres in Morocco. He has 15 years’ experience as a national and international expert in the coordination of hospital planning, design and management in Morocco and Sub-Saharan Africa.
He is also Professor of Surgical Pathology and was chief surgeon at Mohamed V University of Rabat, as well as director at the main university hospitals in Morocco.

Journalist with six years’ experience, specialised in the analysis of public data in transnational research with the OCCRP network of journalists since 2020. As a consultant, she is an expert in data visualisation, qualitative analysis and bibliographical management. She has authored reports and stories on education, the rights of vulnerable groups, migration and fraud, published in media outlets in several countries, such as Revista Semana, Voragine and 070 (Colombia), L’Obs (France) and El Mundo (Spain).
She has a master’s degree in Investigative Journalism, Data and Visualisation (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Spain).

With more than 20 years’ experience in the private sector, she has managed the administration of large hotels in Europe and the Caribbean.
Prior to this, she was part of the coordination team for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. Since 2020, she has been providing administrative support and logistics management for consultancy and evaluation projects at Avicena, facilitating fieldwork for consultants across the world.

Valentina holds a degree in Business Management Technology from the Colegio Mayor del Cauca University (Colombia) and provides administrative support in project management and planning.

Nicolas is an anthropologist specialising in social research and data analysis, with experience in the formulation and evaluation of public policies (education, health and social issues) and humanitarian programmes. Nicolás brings solid knowledge in the use of software for qualitative and quantitative analysis (ATLAS.ti, Excel, Python, RStudio) applied to the performance of organisations and programmes.

Kamilla is a specialist in international relations and political science and has developed her career in humanitarian organisations (Médecins Sans Frontières, UNHCR, Brazilian Red Cross). Kamilla has managed crisis and emergency operations in Brazil and Mozambique and worked as a specialist researcher for UNICEF. Kamilla brings extensive knowledge of humanitarian operations in the field and experience as an analyst of humanitarian interventions.

Juliana is an anthropologist with a Master’s degree in Social Sciences and experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis for strategic decision making in public health, with a focus on gender and ethnicity. Juliana excels at designing information collection and analysis strategies using tools such as ATLAS.ti, SPSS, QGIS and RStudio. Her career includes teaching and research in the social sciences, with an interdisciplinary perspective and rigorous methodology aimed at generating impact and developing applied knowledge.

Ghaith is a public health professional with a Master’s degree in global health and a Bachelor of Dental Surgery. His experience includes clinical practice as a dental surgeon and research in global health projects. Ghaith’s skills include data analysis, report writing and health intervention design, complemented by experience in communication and scientific translation.

Luisa brings more than fifteen years of experience in clinical and research work, with a focus on infectious diseases, sexual and reproductive health, and emergency response. She has worked with several United Nations agencies (PAHO/WHO, UNICEF) and collaborated with the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC), the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), and the governments of Norway and Georgia. Luisa has published in indexed journals on antimicrobial resistance, social sciences and humanitarian aid. In recent years, she has focused mainly on evaluation, working on corporate and decentralised evaluations with PAHO/WHO and contributing to the design of the course on social sciences and antimicrobial resistance at the Vrije Universiteit and AIGHD (Netherlands).

She has international experience in biomedical research, epigenetics, infectious diseases and epidemiology, having completed a postdoctoral fellowship on malaria at Swiss TPH. She is a specialist in global health and medical science writing, with strong analytical and synthesis skills for health research and evaluations. She has worked in academia, the Pan American Health Organization and private research companies.
Collaborator – Research, global health and medical science writing