Anna Gamell Fullà

I graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona and specialised in Paediatrics at the SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital (2008–2012). Subsequently, I worked at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, carrying out my work in Tanzania at the Ifakara Health Institute (2012–2016), where I focused on operational research and paediatric care for patients with HIV/AIDS.

During my stay in Tanzania, I completed a PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Basel (Switzerland), defending a thesis in 2017 focused on the prevention of vertical transmission of HIV and the approach to HIV/AIDS in the paediatric population.

Since 2018, I have been working as a paediatrician specialising in infectious diseases at the SJD Barcelona, where I treat children and adolescents with serious or recurrent infections, with a special focus on osteoarticular and central nervous system infections, as well as adolescents with sexually transmitted infections. I am also part of the hospital's PROA team.

I combine my healthcare work with participation in research projects on paediatric infectious diseases and teaching, collaborating in the continuing education of medical students during their rotation in the Paediatrics department.

Training

• Master's degree in continued education in paediatric infectious diseases, University of Barcelona, 2024.
• PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2017.

International experience

• Specialist in paediatric infectious diseases at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Switzerland), providing healthcare services at the Ifakara Health Institute (Tanzania), 2012-2016.
• Research collaborator at the Manhiça Health Research Centre (Mozambique), 07/2006 - 01/2007.

Scientific activity

• Researcher in the cohort of children exposed to HIV in Catalonia. 2018 - present.
• Co-researcher in the project ‘New biomarkers for the diagnosis and monitoring of response to treatment of paediatric tuberculosis’. FIS Programme - Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII). 2023 - present.
• Co-director of a doctoral thesis and director of several master's theses.
• Co-author of more than 30 scientific articles in indexed journals.

Teaching

• Professor of the Infectious Diseases module of the Master's Degree in Global Health at ISGlobal and the University of Barcelona, since 2018.
• Lecturer on the Master's Degree in International Health and Cooperation at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, since 2019.
• Lecturer on the course ‘Travel Medicine and Health in Mobile Populations’ at ISGlobal, since 2022.