For the third year, the Career Compass will be hosted at ESCAIDE 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Career Compass is an open Q&A session about the different career paths of five established public health professionals.
This event provides the ideal platform to help junior public health professionals connect with senior professionals and discover future career opportunities.
It is organised by EPIET and EUPHEM fellows in collaboration with the EPIET Alumni Network (EAN).
Date: Friday, 29 November 2019
Time: Lunchtime
Panel Members
Marta Valenciano
Director Epidemiology Department at EpiConcept: Epidemiology - e-Health - Big data
Marta is the Director of Epiconcept’s Epidemiology Department. She studied veterinary medicine in Madrid, holds a Master in Public Health from the LSHTM and has completed the EPIET training programme. Starting work initially with Spanish NGOs, Marta worked at InVS for four years and then moved on to work for the WHO Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response team for four years. She became a scientific coordinator for EPIET in Madrid participating in the education of the next generations of EPIET fellows. In 2007 she joined Epiconcept at Alain Moren’s newly founded epidemiology department. There she was strongly involved in building the department and took over to head the department as Director in February 2018 after Alain’s retirement. Epiconcept works on contract basis with the public sector and does mainly epidemiological research, surveillance projects, support to data analysis/biostatistics, and field epidemiology training. She likes the flexibility and freedom of working in a small, creative and motivated team, the variety of projects they have and she really appreciates the lack of heavy bureaucracy.
Victor Dahl
Medical doctor at South General Hospital in Stockholm and epidemiologist at the Public Health Agency of Sweden
Viktor Dahl is a medical doctor who currently works 80% as a resident in infectious diseases at the South General Hospital in Stockholm and 20% as an epidemiologist at the Public Health Agency of Sweden focusing on HIV and Hepatitis B and C. He graduated from Lund University and completed a PhD at the Karolinska Institutet working on HIV. In parallel with his PhD-studies he worked as a clinical microbiologist at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (now the Public Health Agency of Sweden). When he finished his PhD studies he was given the opportunity to participate in the EPIET-program. He very much enjoys combining clinical work as a medical doctor with the public health related work at the Public Health Agency of Sweden, giving him the opportunity to see the same issues from two perspectives.
Gregory Martin
Specialist in Public Health Medicine in Dublin, Editor-in-Chief of Globalization and Health, Member of the Board of Trustees of IFGH and one of the founding directors of Wellola.
Dr. Martin is a Specialist in Public Health Medicine and the Editor-in-Chief of Globalization and Health. Before moving to Ireland, Dr Martin gained experience in the global health space, working for the World Health Organization (as a Technical Officer), the Clinton Health Access Initiative (as the Director of EMTCT) and the World Cancer Research Fund (as the Head of Science and Research). His professional interests include behavioural economics, multilateral trade agreements, and the clinical governance of artificial intelligence in healthcare settings. Dr Martin hosts a popular YouTube channel that focuses on providing teaching and support to students and young professionals interested in working in global health.
Celine Barnadas
Technical Officer at World Health Organization
Céline is a pharmacist and PhD and a EUPHEM alumna. After 2 years working as a consultant for the WHO, Céline recently joined the WHO laboratory strengthening team in Lyon, France. There she contributes to improving public health laboratory preparedness towards outbreaks and providing technical assistance and guidance. Before undertaking EUPHEM (in Denmark) and joining WHO, Céline spent 9 years working on malaria research in Madagascar, France, the USA, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Through these different positions, she had the chance to work both at the bench and in the field, to manage teams and funding, and … to never get bored.
Lina Moses
PhD MSPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Community Health & Behavioral Sciences, Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, New Orleans
Lina Moses is an Assistant Professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. Trained in Tropical Medicine, Community Health and Environmental Health, Moses’ research focuses on the prevention and control of zoonotic diseases. She has spent over a decade in West Africa overseeing epidemiology and surveillance activities for Ebola virus disease, Lassa fever, and monkeypox. Moses is a member of the GOARN Steering Committee and will assume leadership of the GOARN-Research Working Group in January 2020.
Julita Gil Cuesta
Julita Gil Cuesta, MD MPH Epiet Public Health Specialist, Operational Research Support Officer, LuxOR Operational Research, Médecins Sans Frontières | Doctors Without Borders
Julita Gil Cuesta is working with Doctors without Borders (MSF) on Operational Research on Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Epidemics. She is trained as a Medical Doctor, MPH and specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health in Spain. Previously, she has been working in Epidemiology and Public Health at CRED/UCL University in Brussels and in the World Health Organization country offices in Vietnam, Washington DC, Bolivia and Sierra Leone. She holds a Field Epidemiology Programme (EPIET/ECDC) fellowship at the States Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.