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DTO. de Epidemiología de Enfermedades Transmisibles

Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Research Unit

Unidad de vigilancia e investigación en enfermedades transmisibles

Staff

Foodborne illnesses:

  • Carmen Varela (Jefa Unidad)
  • María Guerrero
  • Marina Peñuelas

Vaccine-preventable diseases:

  • Josefa Masa (Jefa Unidad)
  • Marta Soler
  • María de Viarce Torres
  • Noemí López
  • Fernando Vallejo

Acute respiratory infections:

  • Susana Monge (Jefa Unidad)
  • Lorena Vega
  • Marcos Lozano
  • Gloria Pérez
  • Ana Puerto

Emerging and vector-borne diseases:

  • Beatriz Fernández (Jefa Unidad)
  • Juan Miguel Guerras

HIV infection, sexually and parenterally transmitted infections:

  • Asunción Díaz (Jefa Unidad)
  • Victoria Hernando
  • Lorena Simón

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and resistances:

  • Carmen Varela (Jefa Unidad)
  • César Garriga
  • Maria Guerrero
  • Marina Peñuelas
  • Rocío Carmona

Mortality surveillance (MoMo):

  • Diana Gómez-Barroso (Jefa Unidad)
  • Inmaculada León-Gómez

CoRIS Cohort Coordination Unit:

  • Inmaculada Jarrín (Jefa Unidad)
  • Marta Rava
  • Cristina Moreno
  • Rebeca Izquierdo
  • Teresa Gómez
  • Cristina Marco

Tuberculosis:

  • Zaida Herrador (Jefa Unidad)
  • Álvaro Roy
  • Juan Miguel Guerras

Spatial analysis and environmental impact on communicable diseases:

  • Diana Gómez-Barroso (Jefa Unidad)
  • Inmaculada León-Gomez
  • Ayelen Rojas Benedicto
  • Javier del Águila
  • Enrique Alcalde
  • Lucia Perez Marín

Zoonosis:

  • Rosa María Estevez (Jefa Unidad)

 

 

 

Services

The Unit is responsible of providing the information necessary for the control of communicable diseases. The professionals of the Unit are experts in the epidemiology and control of communicable diseases of public health relevance. They analyze surveillance data, evaluate the impact of public health interventions, and disseminate the results to decision-makers in the areas of prevention and control.

General information

Activities
  • Management of epidemiological surveillance of communicable diseases.
  • Technical advice through participation in national expert committees for the development of communicable disease prevention and control plans that guide public health decision-making.
  • Participation in international expert groups and European surveillance networks. Contribution to international surveillance.
  • National and international institutional representation.
  • Public health research. Membership of the CIBER for Epidemiology and Public Health and the CIBER for infectious diseases.
  • Training activities. Teaching, mentoring resident interns (MIRs), doctoral students, EPIET, and EUPHEM, among others. 

Research

Our mission is to conduct epidemiological and public health research to provide quality information to guide the control and prevention of communicable diseases, as well as the design, implementation, and evaluation of health policies.

The Communicable Disease Surveillance and Research Unit is comprised of several research subunits.

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