Miriam Navarro Beltrá, MD, MSc, PhD, is a family doctor, epidemiologist, and co-lead of the Working Group on Migration and Health.
Her work centers on migrant health, neglected tropical diseases, and planetary health. In 2006, she co-founded Salud Entre Culturas (Health Between Cultures) at Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid, an award-winning initiative that also formed the basis of her PhD research. Miriam has extensive experience in developing and implementing community-based interventions for migrants, as well as training intercultural mediators and community health workers.
Her academic and community work includes research and teaching on Migrant Health and Planetary Health at Universidad Miguel Hernández and Universidad de Alicante. She also participates in research networks and working groups focused on health inequalities, neglected tropical diseases, and public health surveillance, among others. From 2013 to 2017, she served as Executive Secretary of the Spanish Society of Tropical Medicine and International Health (SEMTSI), and from 2017 to 2020, of the Federation of European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH). Currently, she coordinates the Planetary Health Programme at the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (semFYC) and works as a medical epidemiologist in Alicante, Spain.
