JCM Webinar | New Challenges in Public Health and Epidemiology in the XXI Century
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New Challenges in Public Health and Epidemiology in the XXI Century
Welcome to the 2024 Scientific Webinar on “New Challenges in Public Health and Epidemiology in the XXI Century”. As we navigate this era of unprecedented health challenges, staying informed about the latest trends and research shaping the public health landscape is crucial. This webinar brings together leading experts to share their insights on critical issues that impact us all.
We will begin our journey by exploring the Mediterranean diet, mainly focusing on wine and alcohol consumption, to understand their broader health implications. We then transition to an essential discussion on clinical patient safety, highlighting cutting-edge strategies to enhance patient care. Our concluding session will delve into the intricate relationship between nutrition and mental health, specifically examining how dietary habits affect depression.
Date: 30 May 2024
Time: 4 pm CEST | 9 am CDT | 10 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 853 2569 8808
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet the Event Chair
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Miguel Angel Martínez-Gonzalez
Department of Public Health, Medical School University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain;
Prof. Dr. Miguel Angel Martínez-Gonzalez, MD, PhD, is a renowned chronic disease epidemiologist. He is currently a Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health at the Medical School, University of Navarra, Spain, and an Adjunct Professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. With over 30 years of experience, he has focused on studying the determinants of chronic diseases, including nutrition, lifestyle, clinical factors, metabolomics, and genetics. He founded and led the SUN project, a significant cohort study with 23,000 participants. Prof. Martínez-Gonzalez has been the Coordinator of the PREDIMED research network and Principal Investigator of the PREDIMED trial, the largest nutritional trial in Europe. He has published landmark papers from this trial, including groundbreaking research on the impact of a randomized dietary intervention on cognitive function. Currently, he leads two long-term randomized trials, funded by the European Research Council: the PREDIMED-Plus (n=6,874), assessing the effects of an energy-reduced Mediterranean diet, and the UNATI trial (n=10,000 to be recruited), testing guidelines on alcohol consumption. Together with Prof. Frank Hu (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) and Dr. Clary Clish (Broad Institute, MIT), he has undertaken leadership roles in NIH-funded studies of metabolomics and the risk of chronic diseases in the context of large intervention trials.
Prof. Dr. Paul Barach
Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, Philadelphia PA, USA, Sigmund Freud University, School of Medicine, Vienna, Austria;
Paul Barach, MD, MPH, is a double-boarded anesthesiologist, a physician/scientist focusing on critical care and public health, and a public health researcher and educator. Dr. Barach trained at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Barach is a pioneer and international leader in health services and patient safety research; in measuring and improving the quality of health and healthcare; and also in the use of information technology in healthcare. Dr. Barach has served as a PI and Co-PI for several large national collaborations and has been granted over $100,000,000 (USD) from US, EU, UK, Norwegian, Australian, and Dutch research grants. Dr. Barach is widely recognized as a research methodologist and epidemiologist for research on both health services and patient-centered outcomes, and is deeply committed to translating research into public health strategies to ensure safe patient care, the strengthening of systems, learning systems, and population health. To date, he has published 255 peer-reviewed publications, 68 book chapters, and 5 books.
Prof. Dr. Almudena Sanchez-Villegas
Navarra Health Research Institute, Pamplona, Spain, Network Biomedical Research Center for the Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Spain, Institute for Innovation & Sustainable Development in the Food Chain, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain;
With a Bachelor’s degree and PhD in Pharmacy, Prof. Dr. Almudena Sanchez-Villegas has been a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health since 2016. Her main research field is the study of the associations between lifestyle factors, mainly dietary factors, and depression and quality of life. She has been awarded several research projects from the Spanish Institute of Health (Instituto de Salud Carlos III), the most recent one being on developing a cohort study of adolescents to assess the roles of social determinants, genetics, and lifestyle in mental health and obesity.
Dr. Sanchez-Villegas has been involved in several international collaborations, including the EURECA Project sponsored by the European Union. Moreover, she was member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Nutritional Research until 2013. From 2005 to 2006, she was a Research Fellow at Harvard University.
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Review Special Issue Series: Recent Advances in Epidemiology & Public Health
Edited by Prof. Dr. Francisco Guillen-Grima, Prof. Dr. María M. Morales Suárez-Varela and Prof. Dr. Agustín Llopis-González