Public health surveillance, health information systems, evidence reviews and medical writing.
Evaluation of the hospital-based severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) surveillance within the Spanish Acute Respiratory Infection Surveillance System (SiVIRA), for the National Centre of Epidemiology (ISCIII). The evaluation combines system data with a census survey of the 18 regional coordinators and 50 sentinel hospitals of the network.
Commissioned by the Public Health Authority of the Región de Murcia to draft the discussion of the DICA study, a regional survey-based assessment of cardiovascular risk factors within the noncommunicable disease surveillance agenda: critical review of the survey methodology and data quality, synthesis of the findings against national and international literature, and publication-ready text.
Medical writer for European health report 2024: keeping health high on the agenda, for the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Data and Digital Health Division.
Related: The report (WHO/Europe)
Supported the national protocol and implementation of automated, electronic health record-based surveillance of bloodstream infections and candidaemia in hospitalised patients in Spain, for CCAES (Spanish Ministry of Health). The protocol was presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE).
Related: SEE 2025 communication
For pharmaceutical and medical-device companies I have carried out, among other work:
Led a comprehensive evaluation of the respiratory virus surveillance system for the WHO Ukraine Country Office, including an evaluation mission, training sessions, site visits and report production.
With ECDC funding and under the technical direction of CCAES (Spanish Ministry of Health), supported the roll-out of SARI surveillance through secondary use of electronic health records for the National Centre of Epidemiology (ISCIII): coordination of field data collection, and surveillance and evaluation protocols and reports.
Consultant for the Data and Digital Health Division of the WHO Regional Office for Europe on national health information system assessments in Serbia and Slovakia: civil registration and vital statistics, mortality and cause-of-death data, disease registries such as cancer registries, medicines registries and health statistics. The work included country assessment missions and the assessment reports.
For the Data and Digital Health Division of the WHO Regional Office for Europe: development of the infectious disease surveillance module of the WHO/Europe support tool to assess and strengthen health information systems, and related training materials; evaluation of the health information system for respiratory infections in Georgia (2022, WHO Country Office); and a systematic review and articles on electronic health records and lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.
WHO Regional Office for Europe consultant in respiratory virus surveillance. I led monitoring and evaluation of sentinel acute respiratory infection surveillance in Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, with site assessments, on-site training in data management and analysis, and facilitation of high-level policy meetings. I supported national influenza focal points in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan in adapting surveillance to COVID-19, and the COVID-19 response in Azerbaijan (2020).
Through a contract research organisation (CRO), for pharmaceutical clients: systematic and targeted literature reviews on background incidence and prevalence rates, pathogen surveillance, and vaccine efficacy, effectiveness and safety; a gastrointestinal burden-of-disease study with nationwide data from 16 EU countries, including norovirus modelling based on real-world hospital discharge data to generate real-world evidence (RWE); analysis of clinical databases in R; protocols, reports, posters and manuscripts.
Epidemiologist on the Ebola virus disease response in Forécariah, Guinea (GOARN mission, WHO and ECDC): surveillance, case investigation and contact follow-up, description of the outbreak, investigation of its source, and QGIS training for WHO surveillance staff. Facilitator and evaluator of Ebola simulation exercises for the Ministry of Health of Mali in Bamako, organised by WHO (2015). Zika outbreak consultancy in Guinea-Bissau (WHO, 2016): surveillance and reporting, case definitions and investigation forms, training of surveillance officers, surveillance of microcephaly, and identification of community-based surveillance resources.
