Dr Caterina Guinovart is a medical epidemiologist working as a senior advisor for Research and Implementation on malaria elimination projects with Malaria Control and Elimination Partnership in Africa (MACEPA)/PATH and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). For the last 18 years, she has worked on malaria research and implementation projects, including spending several years at ISGlobal and the Manhiça Health Research Center in Mozambique contributing to the initial RTS,S malaria vaccine trials in children to assess the role of age in the development of naturally acquired immunity to malaria in infants; descriptive epidemiological studies to assess the burden of malaria in the Manhiça area; and other impact evaluation projects in Mozambique. She completed a post-graduate fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, WA, where she worked on different impact evaluation projects and on the malaria estimates for the Global Burden of Disease 2013 study. In 2014, she joined MACEPA/PATH to work on malaria elimination operational research, mainly in Senegal and Ethiopia. Since 2017, she has combined her work with MACEPA/PATH with projects from the malaria elimination initiative at ISGlobal.

Dr Guinovart earned a Medical degree and Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health from the University of Barcelona and a master’s degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She completed a post-graduate fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, where she worked on different impact evaluation projects and on the malaria estimates for the Global Burden of Disease 2013 study.

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