Dr Lucia Gonzalez is a project manager for SolidarMed (a Swiss-based non-governmental organisation) collaborating on the BRCCH Mistral project. She is a Spanish-trained physician with a master’s in global health policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Paediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine and is currently pursuing a PhD at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) at the University of Basel.

With more than 15 years of experience in international health and development, she has worked in tuberculosis, HIV, COVID-19 and primary health programmes in Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific region. Her interests include the management of health programmes, evidence creation, policy dialogues and health economics.