Marta Tufet Bayona is a British and Spanish biologist and public health resource coordinator with a specialty in malaria.
In 2006, Tufet earned a PhD in cellular and molecular biology from the Faculty of Life Sciences at Imperial College London.
[3] It was whilst working at the Charles Darwin Foundation that she first became concerned about the challenges that face scientific researchers in the developing world.
[4] In her position as science portfolio adviser, she coordinated grant funding in the areas of animal health, bacteriology and immunology.
[6][7] In 2014, Tufet worked as an adviser in discovery and translational sciences for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, where she looked to develop collaborative projects with the Wellcome Trust.
[15] As part of this effort, she partnered with The Global Health Network and the African Academy of Sciences to survey researchers and better understand what the community needs.