Santiago G. Martinez (MSc, MPhil, PhD) is an Associate Professor in Digital Health at the University of Agder (Norway). He is part of the DUALSAVE-FGS project consortium of 27 researchers in 9 institutions, who do implementation research on Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) in Mozambique, Eswatini and South Africa. He is a work package co-leader with the aim to design and evaluate an evidence-based education and training program for healthcare professionals (HCPs) to diagnose FGS at the point of care (PoC). He is also the main supervisor of the PhD student (Ms. Andrea Jervell Hult, MD) connected to that work package.
He designed the state-of-the-art Usability laboratory for education and research in the University of Agder, Norway. He has tutored more than a 100 Master students from information and communications technology, medicine and nursing. He has contributed to European and Norwegian projects in collaboration with hospitals and other stakeholders, centred on FGS, people living with HIV (in collaboration with the King’s College of London and Southern Norwegian hospital), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
He has published more than 90 articles on digital health, of which the latest in collaboration with the WHO and UNAIDS about the production of the Pocket Atlas for FGS led by Prof. Eyrun Kjetland and Pamela Mbazazi.