Dr Rosario Martínez Vega
Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Infectious & Tropical Diseases
United Kingdom
Rosario (Charo) was trained a medical doctor (MBBS) at the University of Seville, Spain. She went onto complete her Master of Clinical Tropical Medicine at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. She has extensive experience in epidemiology, public health, and health information systems and has worked for over 15 years in international development and humanitarian settings, engaging in research, programme monitoring, and capacity building. In her most recent role for Médecins Sans Frontières Spain, she led the organization's DHIS2 system, and provided expert advice and technical support to the implementation of a large-scale monitoring system to improve health outcomes. Before her work at Médecins Sans Frontières, she worked as Research Fellow for TREAT Asia and for the National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore, where she conducted HIV epidemiological studies and researched the evolution and transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae through GWAS analysis.
Affiliations
Department of Disease Control
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Research
Rosario is interested on leveraging the use of data for informed decision making and guide public policies and interventions effectively. Her work characterises the complex interplay between health outcomes, data utilization and innovative intervention strategies to improve public health outcomes, health care access and promote well-being in communities. She is currently studying the impact of perennial malarial chemoprevention (PMC) on clinical outcomes and malaria drug resistance in various sub-Saharan countries.
Research Area
Disease control
Implementation science
Child health
Health policy
Population health
Disease and Health Conditions
Malaria
HIV/AIDS
Tropical diseases
Country
Zambia
Cameroon
Thailand
Cambodia
South Sudan
Nigeria
Somalia
Mozambique
India
Bangladesh
Region
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)
Selected Publications
Competing Affordance Potencies Shaping Data Collection: Case of Humanitarian Organizations.
2023
International Conference on Information Systems.
Solving off-line challenges in an almost connected world.
2022
DHIS2 Annual Conference Oslo
In-service Mobile Data Collection for automatic integration of individual data in MSF Spain Health Management Information System.
2020
DHIS2 Annual Conference.
Differences in Liver Impairment Between Adults and Children with Dengue Infection.
2016
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Rapid Clinical Progression and Poorer Immunologic Outcome on Treatment among Patients Infected with CRF51_01B, a novel HIV-1 recombinant in Singapore.
2015
Singapore Health & Biomedical Congress.
Cost effectiveness analysis of HLA-B*5701 genotyping in newly diagnosed persons living with HIV/AIDS in Singapore, by ethnicity.
2014
International AIDS Conference