Elsa Negro Calduch

I am an epidemiologist and independent public health consultant, with more than twenty years of experience in public health. My work spans public health surveillance and health information systems, systematic and targeted evidence reviews, real-world data analysis, burden of disease estimation, market assessment for medical-device companies, and medical writing.

I specialised in epidemiology through the Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP/PEAC) at the Spanish National Centre of Epidemiology, and completed a Master of Advanced Studies in Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Autonomous University of Madrid. I am also a veterinary surgeon by training, and my early career was in veterinary public health in the United Kingdom.

With WHO, I have been deployed in field responses to Ebola and Zika outbreaks, supported the COVID-19 response, and evaluated respiratory virus surveillance systems in Ukraine and several countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia. In Spain, I have evaluated respiratory infection surveillance for the National Centre of Epidemiology. Earlier, I worked for three years in Egypt with FAO on avian influenza surveillance and control, and later on contingency planning for animal diseases in Europe.

Since 2018 I have worked independently, and before that through a contract research organisation (CRO), for international organisations, national public health institutes, and pharmaceutical and medical-device companies. This work includes systematic and targeted literature reviews, burden of disease studies, background incidence rate estimation, adverse event analysis, real-world data analysis, health information system assessment, public health surveillance system evaluation, implementation of automated surveillance based on electronic health records, and medical writing.

For medical-device clients I have also carried out market assessments, estimating procedure volumes by territory, sizing patient populations and reviewing clinical society guidelines to assess the potential of specific products, as well as landscape reviews of device technologies and reviews of guidelines and trials to define clinical indications and settings of care.

I work in Spanish, English, Portuguese and French.