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Presentation by the Scientific Director
Marina Pollán Santamaría
In 2019, the groups included in CIBERESP continued to maintain the level of publications of previous years, which once again exceeded a thousand, with more than 50% of them in the first quartile and 30% in the first decile.
CIBERESP has seven research programmes and one training programme: Programme 1 “Epidemiology and Control of Chronic Diseases”, Programme 2 “Communicable Disease Prevention, Surveillance and Control”, Programme 3 “Biological, Behavioral and Structural Determinants in the Contraction and Spread of Communicable Diseases in Vul- nerable Populations ”, Programme 4 “Social Determinants of Health”, Programme 5 “Epidemiology and Prevention in Environmental and Occupational Health”, Programme 6 “Evaluation of Health Services” and Programme 7 “Clinical Epidemiology”. The main achievements of each of these programmes are reflected in the Annual Report.
At the end of the year, Angela Domínguez, Scientific Assistant Director of CIBERESP, Jordi Casabona, Coordinator of Programme 3 and Adonina Tardón, Coordinator of Programme 5, stepped down from the Steering Committee. On behalf of the entire CIBERESP family, I want to thank them for all the work and enthusiasm they have brought to our network. In place of the outgoing members, Jordi Alonso, from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, has stepped in as the Scientific Assistant Director, Juan Carlos Galán, researcher at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid, joins as Coordinator of Programme 3, Marieta Fernández, from the University of Granada, is the new Coordinator of Programme 5 and Antonio Serrano, from the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu in Barcelona, has taken the lead of Pro- gramme 6.
In 2019, our External Scientific Advisory Committee (ESAC) was renewed, maintaining two of its previous members: Professors Henrique Barros from the University of Porto (Portugal) and Javier Nieto, from the University of Oregon (USA) and incorporating four prestigious researchers with complementary profiles: Prof. Jose María Valderas, from the University of Exeter (United Kingdom), Prof. Ana Navas, from Columbia University (USA); Dr. Teymur Noori from the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC, Sweden) and Dr. Ana Pilar Betrán, from the World Health Organiza- tion (Switzerland). In November we held a very productive joint meeting between the ESAC and the CIBERESP Steer- ing Committee, which served to make the new members aware of the organisation and main results of CIBERESP and to reflect together on how to strengthen our research network and focus the activities that we develop in order to be more useful in facing the main national and international public health challenges. The main conclusions of this meeting were presented at the Annual CIBERESP Meeting where we maintained the scientific structure of 2018 which was very well received by our groups with presentations of a selection of communications and posters of the best work done by the groups of our area, promoting in this way the presence of young researchers. In this meeting, a summary of the first results of the opinion survey that we have carried out during this year among all the CIBERESP researchers was also presented, the analysis of which will be very useful for the Steering Committee.
We continue to maintain collaboration with the Spanish Society of Epidemiology. The CIBERESP Communications panel presented at the XXXVII Scientific Meeting in Oviedo was very well received by the attendees, from whom we have received numerous comments highlighting the quality of the presentations.