Sergio was appointed Deputy Director in 2023 and manages the day-to-day operations working closely with the other members of the senior management team.
He first joined MENTOR in 2012 to manage a malaria control programme in northern Angola and support the NTD control programme after it was set up there. He then spent two and half years in southeast Asia, where he managed several programmes and operational research projects, focussing mainly on malaria elimination, health information systems and dengue control. Sergio returned to MENTOR in 2018 as a programme manager, supporting activities in Chad, Angola, Mozambique and Venezuela.
Sergio is a qualified public health practitioner with over 15 years’ experience in international public health programming. He started as a field medical worker in Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau in 2009, then moved to programmatic management in the areas of community health and malaria.