Cynthia Formosa is currently working on full-time basis with the University of Malta inside the Faculty of Health Sciences. A post which she has occupied for the past 17 years. She was also President of the Association of Podiatrists, Malta for two years . She was also appointed as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Sport, Health and Exercise Research, Faculty of Health, Staffordshire University.
She is also External examiner for two universities one in the UK and another in Ireland She is also Fellow of the Faculty of Podiatric Medicine at the Royal College of Physcians and Surgeons, Glasgow.
She is currently a member of the International Federation of Podiatrists and a member of the Clinical Biomechanics and Human Performance Research Team at the Faculty of Health, Staffordshire University. She is also a founder member of the Diabetes Foot Research Group, University of Malta.
Cynthia has published over 100 papers in both local and and peer-reviewed international journals. She has also contributed in a number of book chapters. She has presented over 300 presentations in leading Podiatry and Diabeters Congresses and Conferences. She is also a peer-reviewer and editorial board member of a number of local and international journals. She has participated in conferences at the national and international level, in countries such as USA, Portugal, Italy, United Kingdom, Scotland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Slovenia, Poland, Dubai, France, and Romania.
Her areas of interest include the diabetic foot, diabetes foot screening, screening guidelines and mixed methods and qualitative research. She has also carried out a three-year MCST funded project and was the local lead for an Erasmus+ KA02 ‘Strategic Partnerships in the field of education, training and youth’. Project title: PODIATRAIN – Open online course in new technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of foot pathologies. €273,000 Project number -2016-1-ES01-KA203-024997 in collaboration with University of Valencia.