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Tuesday June 06, 2023 at 13:26

The ASISA-URJC Chair of Humanitarian Medicine presents its 2023 awards

The ASISA-URJC Chair of Humanitarian Medicine presents its 2023 awards The ASISA-URJC Chair of Humanitarian Medicine presents its 2023 awards

The awards recognize the best research papers published in 2022 in the field of Humanitarian Medicine and Public Health, the best doctoral thesis and the two best end-of-degree projects in the same field.

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The URJC professor and co-director of the chair, Ángel Gi de Miguel, highlighted the important work of the Chair of Humanitarian Medicine and thanked the ASISA Foundation for its support and commitment to the universities and to the development of academic and scientific activities.

For her part, Dr. Maria Tormo, also co-director of the chair, highlighted the triple work of teaching, research and dissemination, which guides the purpose of the ASISA Foundation and its network of Chairs, which already has 15 chairs in 11 public universities. and private throughout Spain.

The General Director of Public Health of the Community of Madrid, Elena Andradas, was responsible for announcing and delivering the awards:

The award for the two best end-of-degree projects (TFG) in Medicine from the Rey Juan Carlos University, related to the SDGs and/or Public Health, went to Pilar Gil Leal for the TFG entitled 'Road traffic injuries and fatalities in the Dominican Republic , 2017-2021: a neglected epidemic' and for Marta de las Parras Molina, for 'Justification of the importance of implementing an intervention based on the promotion of cardiovascular health in the setting of two low-income schools in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic' .

The prize for the best doctoral thesis related to humanitarian medicine, epidemiology and public health, was awarded to Pilar Charlie Cuellar, for the work entitled 'Coverage and effectiveness of severe acute malnutrition treatment by community health workers in West Africa'.

Likewise, two prizes were awarded for the best scientific publications of the year 2022 to Paloma Abad González, for 'Microscopic and submicroscopic infection by plasmodium falciparum: immunoglobulin M and A profiles as markers of intensity and exposure' and to Ainhoa ​​Alcalde Jiménez, for the publication ' Adaptation to pre-surgical hand hygiene in a university hospital in Madrid'.

During the award ceremony, Prof. Raul Ortiz de Lejarazu, from the University of Valladolid, gave the lecture 'Overview of the flu: a virus, master of survival', in which he explained the impact of the flu virus on the human beings throughout history, the different types of influenza virus, group A and group B, as well as their composition and transmission. Prof. Ortiz explained that the enormous capacity for survival of the virus, the multitude of variants, the ability to mutate from different animal species and adapt to humans, are key factors in understanding that, at any time, the influenza virus can trigger a pandemic event. According to Ortiz de Lejarazu "today we are more technologically developed, but more vulnerable as a species."

The event was chaired by Elena Andradas, General Director of Public Health of the Community of Madrid, and took place at the headquarters of the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain (RANME). It was attended by Angel Gil de Miguel, corresponding academic at RANME, professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the URJC and co-director of the Chair; Dr. Maria Tormo, director of Planning and Development at ASISA, director of the ASISA Foundation Chairs network and co-director of the Chair of Humanitarian Medicine and Prof. Raul Ortiz de Lejarazu, professor of Microbiology at the University of Valladolid, head of the Microbiology service of the Clinical Hospital of Valladolid and emeritus director of the National Influenza Center of Valladolid.

 

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