Clara Menéndez
Director of
the Maternal, Child and Reproductive Health Initiative and Programme, ISGlobal
Location
Barcelona
Description
Clara Menéndez, who graduated in Medicine from the
Autonomous University of Madrid, specialises in family medicine, community
health and preventive medicine. She holds a PhD from the Universitat de
Barcelona and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) from the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
She currently directs the Maternal, Child and Reproductive Health Initiative and Programme at the Barcelona Institute for Global de Barcelona (ISGlobal) and is a lecturer on the Master of Global Health at the Universitat de Barcelona.
Menéndez is a consultant for the World Health Organisationon malaria control in children and pregnant women. She has coordinated and coordinates international consortia on malaria in pregnancy that include international research groups from Europe, Africa and the United States.
Menéndez has worked in many countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, such as Gambia, Tanzania and Mozambique, and more recently in Sierra Leone, where she is conducting a clinical trial funded by the Gates Foundation and the ”la Caixa” Foundation on more than 20,000 children under the age of two years old to improve child survival. Menéndez was one of the founding team members of the Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), in Mozambique, and has been responsible for the design and development of new areas of work and research focused on maternal and reproductive health in developing countries.
She has published more than 300 papers and directed over 20 PhD theses of European and African students. She has received several national and international awards, such as the Dexeus Mujer Foundation Award and the Rudolf Geigy Award.
She currently directs the Maternal, Child and Reproductive Health Initiative and Programme at the Barcelona Institute for Global de Barcelona (ISGlobal) and is a lecturer on the Master of Global Health at the Universitat de Barcelona.
Menéndez is a consultant for the World Health Organisationon malaria control in children and pregnant women. She has coordinated and coordinates international consortia on malaria in pregnancy that include international research groups from Europe, Africa and the United States.
Menéndez has worked in many countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, such as Gambia, Tanzania and Mozambique, and more recently in Sierra Leone, where she is conducting a clinical trial funded by the Gates Foundation and the ”la Caixa” Foundation on more than 20,000 children under the age of two years old to improve child survival. Menéndez was one of the founding team members of the Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), in Mozambique, and has been responsible for the design and development of new areas of work and research focused on maternal and reproductive health in developing countries.
She has published more than 300 papers and directed over 20 PhD theses of European and African students. She has received several national and international awards, such as the Dexeus Mujer Foundation Award and the Rudolf Geigy Award.