Quique Bassat

As a pediatrician, Quique’s research has always relied on the premise that there is no greater public health intervention than that which can reduce child mortality, particularly in poor contexts. To do these, he has worked in low and middle-income countries to understand and prevent infectious diseases that most impact child survival.

His work on P. falciparum malaria has contributed to better characterizing the disease and to assessing treatment and prevention strategies, including vaccines and new antimalarial drugs. He has investigated in Mozambique, Morocco and the Kingdom of Bhutan the epidemiology, etiology, and clinical characteristics of pneumonia, diarrhea, meningitis, and neonatal sepsis, all major causes of premature mortality. 

He has participated in the validation of a radically innovative minimally invasive autopsy sampling protocol (MITS, minimally invasive tissue sampling), now widely used globally for a less invasive (and thus more acceptable) way to investigate the cause of death in LMIC. He is also very interested in the validation and evaluation of technological devices for Global health purposes, including host-response-based point-of-care prognostic risk-stratification tools.