Raquel González is Senior Researcher at the University of Barcelona and Associated Researcher at the Maternal, Child and Reproductive Health Initiative from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). She graduated in Medicine at the University de Barcelona in 2001, obtained a Master in Public Health in 2004 and specialization in Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (Spain) in 2007. There, she started her work with ISGlobal and at the Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), in Mozambique. She defended her PhD thesis at the University of Barcelona in 2015. For the past fifteen years she has worked as study field coordinator, project manager and investigator of clinical and epidemiological studies in Morocco, Mozambique and Kenya, focusing on poverty-related diseases such as malaria, HIV and maternal health. Since 2012, she collaborates with the Global Malaria Program at WHO providing technical inputs and updating the guidelines for prevention of malaria in pregnancy. She is also lecturer at the Master of Global Health from the University of Barcelona (Spain).