H2VICTORY study: Integration of HPV vaccination and HPV cervical screening in young adult WLWH into ARV clinics to speed the pathway towards cervical cancer elimination (NCT05173324 ).
Armando Baena, Maribel Almonte, Rolando Herrero, Nathalie Broutet, Mathilde Forestier, Laura Downham, Vernon Oyaro, Joan Valls, and international collaborators.

ESTAMPA study: Estudio de TAMizaje y triaje con pruebas de Papillomavirus (NCT01881659 ).
Maribel Almonte, Rolando Herrero and international collaborators.

CESTA study: The CErvical cancer Screening and Treatment algorithms study using HPV testing in Africa ( NCT04794660).
Maribel Almonte, Mathilde Forestier, Armando Baena, Nathalie Broutet, and international collaborators.

ASCUS-COL study: Evaluation of strategies for the optimal clinical management of women with ASCUS ( NCT02067468).
Gloria Sanchez, Armando Baena, Maribel Almonte, Rolando Herrero, Peter Sasieni, and international collaborators.


Baena A, Agudelo MC, Lopez C, Ramírez AT, Castañeda KM, Bedoya AM, Riveros M, Posada G, Borrero M, Buitrago CA, Suescun D, Gomez LJ, Ochoa JC, Stoler M, Gage J, Castle PE, Sasieni P, Almonte M, Herrero R, Sanchez GI; ASCUS-COL Trial Group. 2021. Comparison of immediate colposcopy, repeat conventional cytology and high‐risk human papillomavirus testing for the clinical management of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance cytology in routine health services of Medellin, Colombia: The ASCUS‐COL trial. Int. J. Cancer 148. 1394-1407

Baena A, De Vuyst H, Mesher D, Kasubi M, Yuma S, Mwaiselage J, Zouiouich S, Mlay P, Kahesa C, Landoulsi S, de la Luz Hernandez M, Lucas E, Herrero R, Almonte M, Broutet N. 2020. Reproducibility of a Rapid Human Papillomavirus Test at Different Levels of the Healthcare System in Tanzania: The AISHA Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 29(11). 2261-2268

Urrea Cosme Y, Córdoba Sánchez V, Sánchez GI, Baena A, Ruiz Osorio MA, Rodríguez Zabala D, Garcés-Palacio IC. 2020. Health-related quality of life of women after HPV testing as triage strategy for an abnormal Pap smear: a nested randomized pragmatic trial in a middle-income country. Qual Life Res. 29(11). 2999-3008

Almonte M, Murillo R, …, Baena A, …, Lora O, Luciani S, Broutet N, Darragh T, Herrero R. 2020. Multicentric study of cervical cancer screening with human papillomavirus testing and assessment of triage methods in Latin America: the ESTAMPA screening study protocol. BMJ Open 10. e035796

Baena A, Guevara E, Almonte M, Arias-Stella J, Sasieni P, Sanchez GI. 2017. Factors related to inter‐observer reproducibility of conventional Pap smear cytology: a multilevel analysis of smear and laboratory characteristics. Cytopathology 28(3). 192-202


International Papillomavirus Society (IPVS)

International Epidemiological Association (IEA)


Distinction cum laude PhD thesis, University of Antioquia, 2018
Postdoctoral Fellowship, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2017
Summer School scholarship, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2011