Belén Pedrique Bárcena

Dr. Pedrique graduated as a physician and specialist in Family and Community Medicine from the University Complutense of Madrid (1990), and was subsequently awarded a Master of Sciences in Tropical Infectious Diseases (1994) and a Master degree in Epidemiology (2009) by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
She has worked extensively in developing countries: as a clinician in a provincial referral hospital in Cambodia, field coordinator in Angola, head of the medical department of MSF Spain and medical coordinator in Guatemala, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia. Much of her career to date has been with Médecins Sans Frontières, giving technical support to a variety of projects: primary health care, hospital clinical care and management, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis vertical programmes and response to emergencies. She also worked as a consultant for other international organizations (AEDES, UNICEF, WHO).
Since 2010, Belen has been working with DNDi as an epidemiologist and health advisor assessing the epidemiology and R&D needs of Neglected Diseases, including dengue, filariasis and paediatric HIV infections. She coordinated the analysis of the drug and vaccine pipeline in 2000–11 published in 2013 and provided medical monitoring in clinical trials.