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Cesc Bertran

Cesc Bertran

Project Manager & Data Analyst Global Viral and Bacterial Infections | Malaria and Neglected Parasitic Diseases

Cesc Bertran-Cobo is a health data scientist with a background in Biomedical Sciences, Child Development and International Health. His main research interests include paediatric neuroimaging, HIV/malaria fieldwork and education, and global health equity. In ISGlobal, he is a part-time project manager & data analyst at the Tropical Medicine and International Health Service, Hospital Clínic, in Barcelona.

Lines of research

  • Early child development
  • Neurosciences
  • HIV
  • Malaria
  • Dengue
  • Traveller's fever
  • International Health

Main publications

  • Bertran-Cobo, C., Dumont, E., Noordin, N. R., Lai, M. Y., Stone, W., Tetteh, K. K., Drakeley, C., Krishna, S., Lau, Y. L., & Wassmer, S. C. (2024). Plasmodium knowlesi infection is associated with elevated circulating biomarkers of brain injury and endothelial activation. medRxiv, 2024.04.25.24306382. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.25.24306382
  • Bertran-Cobo, C., Wedderburn, C. J., Robertson, F. C., Subramoney, S., Narr, K. L., Joshi, S. H., Roos, A., Rehman, A. M., Hoffman, N., Zar, H. J., Stein, D. J., & Donald, K. A. (2022). A Neurometabolic Pattern of Elevated Myo-Inositol in Children Who Are HIV-Exposed and Uninfected: A South African Birth Cohort Study. Frontiers in immunology, 13, 800273. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.800273
  • Wedderburn, C. J., Weldon, E., Bertran-Cobo, C., Rehman, A. M., Stein, D. J., Gibb, D. M., Yeung, S., Prendergast, A. J., & Donald, K. A. (2022). Early neurodevelopment of HIV-exposed uninfected children in the era of antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet. Child & adolescent health, 6(6), 393–408. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(22)00071-2
  • Fombah, A. E., Chen, H., Owusu-Kyei, K., Quinto, L., Gonzalez, R., Williams, J., Berne, M. L., Wassenaar, M., Jalloh, A., Sunders, J. C., Ramirez, M., Bertran-Cobo, C., Saute, F., Ekouevi, D. K., Briand, V., Kamara, A. R. Y., Sesay, T., Samai, M., & Menendez, C. (2023). Coverage of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants after four years of implementation in Sierra Leone. Malaria journal, 22(1), 145. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-023-04575-6
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