Research - Our Team

Andrea Herranz has a Degree in Biochemistry from the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), and a Master in Advanced Immunology from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She did her final master's thesis in the IBB (Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina) cell immunology laboratory.

She has worked as a research technician in the Sleep Apnea and Hypopnea group at IdISBa (Institut d’Investigació Sanitària de les Illes Balears).

Currently, she is part of the group of Professor J.V. Lazarus, Health Systems Research Group. She is a PhD student (Medicine and Translational Research) at ISGlobal, University of Barcelona, currently focusing on hepatitis C virus infection and PWUD population. Is the coordinator of the HCV Free Baleares project.

Lines of research

• Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)

Main publications

• Eliminando la hepatitis C en las Islas Baleares: intervención en Projecte Home Balears. Socidrogalcohol 2021.
• Eliminating hepatitis C in the Balearic Islands, Spain: a study in governmental and non-governmental addiction service centres to test and link people who use drugs to HCV care. IVHEM 2021.
• HCV micro-elimination strategies for the PWUD population of the Balearic Islands. EASL Hepatitis monothematic 2022.
• Nuevo modelo de atención para la micro eliminación de la hepatitis C en PWUD de las Islas Baleares. 47º congreso AEEH 2022.
• A new model of care for HCV elimination in PWUD in the Balearic Islands, Spain. INSHU 2022.
• Hepatitis C Free Balears: a micro-elimination program focused on people who use drugs in the Balearic Islands, Spain. IVHEM 2022.

• Eliminating hepatitis C on the Balearic Islands, Spain: a protocol for an intervention study to test and link people who use drugs to treatment and care.

• On World Hepatitis Day, ISGlobal Launches Two Major Projects Aimed at Advancing Towards the Elimination of Viral Hepatitis in Spain. Health Is Global, 2022.