Bruno Abarca

Bruno Abarca Tomás is a physician and public health specialist with over 14 years of experience in humanitarian action and international development cooperation. He currently serves as Health and Nutrition Technical Advisor at Action Against Hunger, providing technical support to country teams across multiple regions, including Syria, Lebanon, the Philippines, Colombia, and others. His field experience spans more than fifteen countries across Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, where he has worked in areas such as primary health care, sexual and reproductive health, child nutrition, health systems strengthening, and emergency response. Previous roles include Head of Mission in Mauritania and the Sahrawi Refugee Camps in Algeria with Doctors of the World Spain, and qualitative research fellow with ISGlobal Barcelona Institute for Global Health in Brazil and Surinam.

He has been a Professorial Lecturer at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University since 2018, where he teaches Public Health in Complex Emergencies in the online Master of Public Health program.

He is the creator of Salud Everywhere, a free, bilingual (Spanish/English) open-access educational platform on public health in humanitarian action and international cooperation, designed for health professionals, students, and practitioners in the field.