Cristina Galván-Casas (she/her/hers)

Dermatologist
Retired
VILLANUEVA DE LA CANADA, Madrid, Spain

Dermatologist PhD, especially dedicated to infectious, neglected and emerging diseases, mainly COVID-19, mpox and scabies.
She has worked in Spain as a dermatologist at the Hospital Universitario de Móstoles, as a researcher at the Fight Infections Foundation, and as a professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
She is the founder of the DerMalawi project and has extensive experience in community projects of integrated dermatology and teledermatology in rural areas of Africa and refugee camps in the Sahara.
She is currently vice president of the International Alliance for Scabies Control (IACS), president of the Solidarity Dermatology unit of the Spanish Academy of Dermatology (AEDV), and an active collaborator in several WHO working groups related to wound care, rehabilitation and neglected skin diseases. She is also in charge of capacity-building programmes in the Migrant Health Working Group (MHWG) of the International Foundation of Dermatology (IFD).

Presentation(s):

• Fostering an Interdisciplinary Woundcare E-learning in Neglected Tropical Diseases for the World Health Organization, a Step Toward Lessening Function Loss 1849

  Thursday, October 30, 2025
  11:15 AM - 11:30 AM