Alicia Barrasa trained in PEAC (Spanish Field Epidemiology Training Programme) and since 2004 has been supporting  FETPs as scientific coordinator for PEAC, EPIET and currently UKFETP. She has also collaborated in training courses for the Canadian (CFEP) and the Mediterranean and black sea (MediPIET) programmes. 

She has extensive experience in organising and delivering training and developing training material including case-studies on linear, logistic, conditional logistic, Poisson and Cox regression models, modelling time-series, and interpretation of surveillance data.

Apart from training, her main professional interests include biostatistics, and applied epidemiology methodology.