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Catherine Perez
Barcelona Public Health Agency, Spain
Catherine Pérez, MPH, PhD. Currently Head of Department of Health Promotion at the Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona. She leads the research groups of social determinants of health of the Centre of Biomedical Research of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP) and the Urban Health Inequalities of the Research Institute of Sant Pau.
The main lines of research in which she worked include the development of indicators and the study of social inequalities in health, evaluation of the health impact of urban, mobility and road safety policies, the study of injuries and their severity.
She has participated in several European projects funded by the European Commission related with the study and actions to tackle health inequalities as the SOPHIE project, the Participatory Urban Living for Sustainable Environments leading a work package (PULSE) or the Join Action for Health Equity in Europe and Joint Action of Mental Health on Vulnerable Groups. She led the evaluation of environmental and health impact and their inequalities urban transformations implemented in Barcelona, such as superblocks.
Her research career has always been linked to providing evidence for action from health in all policies. She published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers. She is currently vice-president of the EUPHA Urban Health Section.
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