Diogo Martins

Dr Diogo Martins is the Snakebite Lead at the Wellcome Trust. This programme was launched in 2019 with the goal of transforming the way snakebite treatments are researched, developed, and delivered and to make them safer, more effective, and accessible for all.

His responsibility is to shape, develop and implement a research and policy strategy for the Snakebite portfolio, in collaboration with researchers, regulators, manufacturers, donors, governments and multilateral agencies, including the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Prior to joining the Wellcome Trust, Dr Martins worked at the WHO in the Climate Change Unit of the Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health and as a Public Health medical doctor in the northern region of Portugal.