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14/06/2023 - General information

Annual Meeting of the Epidemiology and Public Health Program

The Epidemiology and Public Health Program (EPISAP) of the Hospital del Mar Research Institute held its annual meeting on June 7, where the strategic research lines of the groups were shared and the strengths of the program were analyzed. It is worth mentioning the participation in the program of young talented researchers.

A consolidated research trajectory together with emerging lines, such as those derived from the COVID-19 pandemic, were highlighted at the meeting. Funding has been received for European projects in areas such as personalized prevention of suicide and depression, measurement of patient reported outcomes (PROs) and the impact on occupational health and safety associated with digital platforms. Likewise, large-scale ongoing studies such as the CORDELIA-GWAS cohort study or the PREDIMEDplus clinical nutritional trial were presented. The necessary methodologies to advance causality, such as Mendelian randomization analysis, and innovative tools such as data mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence, were reviewed.

The EPISAP program, in the framework of the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, has shown its usefulness in the monitoring of infectious outbreaks, the study of risk factors, predictive biomarkers, underlying mechanisms and the establishment of biological plausibility, in highly efficient multidisciplinary approaches.

The meeting also served to present contributions of the program to improve health services from a social justice perspective, collecting information provided by patients (PRMs), promoting quality packaging, gender equality and in other situations such as in people who have suffered an oncological disease, establishing a safe working environment and ensuring that scientific knowledge reaches society in an appropriate way.

It also included presentations by three invited researchers, Dr. Caroline Sabin from the Institute for Global Health at University College London, Dr. Mònica Guxens from ISGlobal and Dr. Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo from the Autonomous University of Madrid. They highlighted, respectively, the usefulness of cohort studies in addressing complex issues such as the historical evolution of HIV infection, the impact of environmental pollution on neurological development, and the relevance of epidemiology and public health in biomedical research and new challenges in personalized medicine.

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