I am paediatrician, epidemiologist, and clinical researcher, dedicated to providing care for very vulnerable children affected by migrations, neglected diseases, and infections that cause an individual and social impact on their lives. My education and training have provided a good basis for this work: degree in Medicine July 1991, Paediatrics specialty in December 1996, and doctorate in Medicine in January 2017, all at the University of Barcelona; Master in Tropical Medicine and International Health, University of Barcelona, in 2005, and Master in Epidemiology, University of London (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), in 2010.
I am currently working as a paediatrician in Primary Care Centres of the Serveis de Salut Integrats del Baix Empordà (SSIBE) located in Palamós, Girona, Spain. In the last previous years, between 2013 and 2024, I worked as a paediatric infectious disease specialist in the Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit (UPIIP) of Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, a referral unit within Spain, attending children with tuberculosis and tropical diseases and unaccompanied asylum-seeking
minors. Actually, I am also principal investigator of a research group on infection in immunosuppressed paediatric patients at Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR).
My research career was initially focused on paediatric HIV infection, as the coordinator of the mother-child pair cohort in Catalonia (Spain) (NENEXP), with the aim of investigating prenatal exposure to maternal HIV infection and antiretroviral drugs, as a part of the COHERE (European HIV cohorts) and PENTA networks. In 2006 I was awarded a scholarship from the Spanish Society of Tropical Medicine to carry out a long stay at Fundação de Medicina Tropical do Amazonas (FMTAM) in Manaus, Brazil.
Thereafter, I became a member of the epidemiological surveillance networks for the study of imported tropical diseases in Europe (TropNet) and worldwide (GeoSentinel).
Since then, my research interest has been focused on tuberculosis and congenital and paediatric Chagas disease, and other tropical and imported infectious diseases in collaboration with PENTA. I have actively collaborated with Professor Saulo Passos on Zika research projects at Jundiai School of Medicine (São Paulo state, Brazil), with Prof. Simon Schaaf for research stays on paediatric tuberculosis at Stellenbosch University in Tygerberg (Cape Town, South Africa), and with Prof. Hermione Lyall at St. Mary’s
Hospital in London (UK).
Between 2016 and 2021, I worked as principal investigator of the H2020 ZIKAction consortium funded by the EU Commission, and since 2019 as principal investigator of the Health Information and Technology for Improved Health Education in South-East Asia project (HITIHE) Erasmus+ program funded by the EU Commission and coordinated by the Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp.
I have been a member of the Paediatric Tuberculosis Network in Europe (ptbnet) and the Spanish Paediatric Tuberculosis Study Network (pTBred) since their foundation and a member of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) since 2010.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been leading the research on paediatric COVID-19 at VHIR and coordinating a COVID-19 research group in Catalonia (COPEDI-CAT) that integrates more than 150 paediatricians working in primary and hospital centres in Catalonia, as well as professionals from other fields, such as biophysics, bioengineering, and computer engineering from the BIOCOM-SC group of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). I was nominated member of the COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Committee for the Government of Catalonia between September 2021 and September 2024.
As of September 2025, I have participated in more than 150 scientific articles in high-impact journals with a H-index of 27 and more than 3500 citations of my research work.
Links to my profile are:
-https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antoni-Soriano-
Arandes/publications?sorting=recentlyAdded&editMode=1
-https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9613-7228