Alberto García-Basteiro
Dr. Alberto Garcia-Basteiro is an Assistant Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal in Barcelona, Spain and the coordinator of the TB research unit at the Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Mozambique. He trained as a physician at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) in Spain and completed his residency in Preventative Medicine and Public Health at Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona. Dr Garcia-Basteiro received his Master´s Degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and later completed his PhD under the Erasmus Mundus Transglobal Health Joint Doctorate Programme, which was awarded by the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, AIGHD) and the University of Barcelona (ISGlobal). Dr Garcia-Basteiro joined ISGlobal in 2012 and is a lecturer in Epidemiology on the MSc of Global Health at the University of Barcelona.