Since earning my PhD in anthropology (1994) from the University of Barcelona, I have been teaching and doing research in the field of medical anthropology with special focus on a series of related topics: mental health and cultural psychiatry; social marginalization and health, adolescent mental health, anthropological theory and social participation in health. My doctoral thesis, published in 2000 by Routledge with a foreword by Arthur Kleinman, developed an argument for the need to approach psychic and social suffering from the perspective of critical hermeneutics, and a critical analysis of the individualistic epistemology that underlies biomedical rationality and avoids consideration of the social conditions that produce and reproduce human distress. A period of time as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996 gave me the opportunity to revise the thesis for publication. Over the course of my academic career, I have been the principal investigator of several research projects, the first of which was a project financed by the European Commission's @LIS (Alliance for the Information Society) Programme: Health for All in Latin America (2003-2007), of which I was co-chair and a member of the steering committee. The aim of this project was to create an e-learning platform for the continuing training of health teams in Brazil and Bolivia through which more than 100 courses would be offered. These activities were implemented following ethnographic research on the health needs of different populations in these countries and the problems faced by the health teams. The project was very well received by the local beneficiaries and received highly positive evaluations from the @LIS Programme. Following this, I was the PI of The Emotional Distress of Adolescents (2009-2012), a project financed by the Fundació Marató de TV3, which supports biomedical research. Ours was the only social science project proposal to receive funding. It was divided into three phases: 1) a study of the social determinants of depressive distress among Catalan adolescents; 2) an analysis of their therapeutic itineraries and reasons for avoidance of health services; and 3) the creation of a guide to best practices developed collaboratively by project researchers, health and mental health professionals, and adolescent project participants. This project was also funded by the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Science. Other projects for which I have been the PI include Medicated Lives (2012-2015), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and focusing on the consumption of antidepressants in Catalonia. At present I am the PI of the Anthropology Research Group (2014-2016), recognized as a quality research group and financed by the Government of Catalonia. At the same time, I have served as an expert for the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, and evaluator for a variety of academic and nonacademic programs. Among the former, of special relevance is my role as evaluator of the European Commission's Sixth Framework Citizenship, Democracy and New Forms of Governance Programme and the AlBan EuropeAid Programme, which provides high-level scholarships for young professionals and graduate students from Latin America wishing to pursue postgraduate studies in Europe. I have also been an evaluator for the research evaluation agencies of Catalonia (AGAUR), Spain (ANEP), Brazil (CNpQ) and Argentina (ANPCYT). I have participated in different capacities in various national and international scientific committees and networks. These include the European Association of Social Anthropologists, the Society for Medical Anthropology, the World Council of Anthropological Associations, the World Psychiatric Association, the Catalan Institute of Anthropology, the Brazilian Mental Health Association, the Brazilian Collective Health Association, and Medical Anthropology at Home.