As a pediatrician with a special interest in infectious disease epidemiology and public health, Professor Quique Bassat combines his clinical expertise with biomedical research in those diseases that most affect the poor and vulnerable. He is currently a Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health. For more than 15 years, he has been intermittently based in Manhiça, Mozambique as a practicing pediatrician and clinical researcher. During this time, Professor Bassat has been involved in various country-based research studies of the new RTS,S malaria vaccine, including clinical trials to assess the use of the vaccine in infants and older children. He has also conducted research evaluating new antimalarial drugs and novel drug formulations, including their use for mass drug administration (MDA) purposes, as part of malaria elimination strategies.

Professor Bassat’s primary research interests focus on the study of disease burden and trends and the characterization of malaria in children admitted to hospitals, as well as the overlapping symptomatology between malaria and other common infectious diseases. In recent years, he has been actively engaged in malaria elimination research activities at the Mozambican Alliance Towards Elimination of Malaria (MALTEM).