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Rodney Ortiz is a Project Manager who manages a portfolio of large-scale EU-funded research projects ATHLETE on multiple environmental factors and health, HARMONIC that studies the long-term effects of medical radiation in children with cancer and cardiac birth defects, and CitieS-Heath, which focuses on a citizen science approach to urban health. He also manages IHEN project on world-wide collaboration to further the exposome research agenda.

Previously, he managed the projects RESPIRE on RSV in Mozambique, EuroLeish on Leishmaniasis and GERoNiMO on electromagnetic fields. He has also provided financial management on grants from EU, USA, Spanish government and private funders at ISGlobal.

Before joining ISGlobal, he coordinated the health area of an EU-funded programme to reduce inequalities in Latin America, including collaboration with 10 ministries of health in the region, European partners, and PAHO/WHO. He also managed projects on health system strengthening in Egypt and Syria, and public health responses to natural disasters in Southeast Asia.

He holds an MPH from Pompeu Fabra University and an MSc. in International Development from the University of London – SOAS.