The latest advances in epidemiology and public health center a scientific conference organized by the ibs.GRANADA
In this meeting, a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach to public health has been carried out from health and care, environmental health and infection by SARS-COv-2
The Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada (ibs.GRANADA) has organized this Friday the third edition of its scientific conferences on the latest advances in Epidemiology and Public Health, at the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital.
This meeting, promoted by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health of the ibs.GRANADA, whose leaders are Dr. Ana Mª Rivas and Dr. José María Navarro, aims to present the lines of work focused on public health carried out by the groups Research Institute of Granada.
The conference was opened by the territorial delegate for Health and Families in Granada, Indalecio Sánchez, the scientific director of ibs.GRANADA, Maria José Sánchez; the managing director of the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, María Ángeles García and the Head of the Microbiology Service of the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, José María Navarro.
Researchers from all the institutions that make up the ibs.GRANADA have participated in this scientific meeting. In it, a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach to public health has been carried out, with sessions distributed in three discussion tables and poster presentation, which have dealt with environmental health, infection by SARS-COv-2, other emerging viruses and the health and care.
One of the great scientific opportunities of this event has been to have Professor Ana Navas, a member of the external advisory committee of the ibs.GRANADA, who has given a masterful closing conference, taking a journey from molecular mechanisms to community participation in matters of environment and health interventions. Ana Navas is a specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health, professor of the Environmental Health area at Columbia University and director of the Columbia University Superfund Research Program.
This meeting, which was attended by a hundred professionals, was an opportunity of the first magnitude to learn about the different scientific projects in epidemiology and public health carried out by the research groups of excellence of the ibs.GRANADA.