Miguel Ángel Martínez-González | Professor and Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Navarra Medical School

Miguel Ángel Martínez-González is a medical epidemiologist, Professor of Public Health at the University of Navarra, Adjunct Professor of Nutrition at Harvard TH School of Public Health (Dpt. of Nutrition) and researcher at CIBEROBN, with more than 30 years of experience in epidemiologic research on the determinants of chronic diseases, especially in nutrition and lifestyle fields. He has designed and directed large trials and cohorts, such as the SUN, PREDIMED and PREDIMED-Plus projects, which have shed unparalleled light and scientific evidence from Spain with worldwide impact. In 1995 he founded and started the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Navarra, which today is one of the most fruitful and leading Departments in Spain. Since then, Dr. Martínez-González has published more than 1000 articles and abstracts indexed in Web of Science and he is on of the most cited scientist in Spain in the ranking of all scientific areas in recent years. He has been mentor of a large group of Full Professors and Associate Professors of Epidemiology and Public Health. He is the editor of the main textbooks in Spanish on Biostatistics (Elsevier), Epidemiology (Ariel-Planeta) and Public Health (Elsevier). As a popularizer, his recent publications with Editorial Planeta stand out: “Salud a Ciencia Cierta (Evidence-based Health)” (2018) and “¿Qué comes? (What do you eat?)” (2020). His 2021 book entitled “LA SANIDAD EN LLAMAS” (The health system on fire) published last June also by Planeta publishing house denounced the mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. But, above all, this book was a tribute to the victims and to the health workers who were on the front line in the hospitals saving human lives.