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Carmen Audera López
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Governing Board Vice-Chair
Dr Carmen Audera López was born in Spain. She studied Medicine at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid and graduated in 1979.
After some time as general practitioner in rural Spain, she went to Equatorial Guinea, Africa, working for the Spanish Red Cross as part of the Spanish Official aid to that country. After 18 months she moved with her husband to the USA where she worked as a researcher in Allergy and Immunology for 5 years, first in Philadelphia and then in Boston in both cases at the university.
After returning to Spain she continued working in Allergy research this time in a pharmaceutical company for 5 more years.
At this time her personal life made a turn when her husband, who was also a medical doctor, decided to become a diplomat and was posted to Côte d’Ivore. She went back to what she really liked, that is, international health issues and development aid. She did a Masters in International Public Health and since then she has worked in different parts of the world: in Australia as lecturer and tutor for a Masters Program of Applied Immunology for Indigenous students at the Australian National University, in Madrid at the National AIDS Program, in charge of AIDS in migrant populations and ethnic minorities, in Geneva, at WHO´s Tobacco Free Initiative as medical officer of the capacity-building team, and currently in Spain as Director of the Office for European and International Research Projects.
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