Prof. Dr. Jesus Vioque is a Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Miguel Hernández University (UMH), CIBERESP and ISABIAL. He trained in Nutritional Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (Prof. Willett). He obtained a lecturer position in 1990. He is the director of the Group of Nutritional Epidemiology (EPINUT-UMH), whose
main aim is to research the relationship between diet and health problems. To this end, the group has created and validated Food Frequency Questionnaires and software to evaluate the effect of diet in different population groups (Vioque, 2007; 2013; 2016). Dr. Vioque has been a principal investigator in European multicenter projects, such as the EUREYE Study (V Framework Program-EU) on macular degeneration of the retina, and national projects, such as the prospective cohort study Infancy and Environment (INMA Study). He is the principal investigator at one of the centers in the PREDIMED-PLUS Study, which is a randomized intervention study to assess whether the Mediterranean diet, physical activity, and other healthy lifestyles reduce cardiovascular risk. He was responsible for the Health and Nutrition Survey of Valencia. He now participates in international consortia, such as the Global Burden of Disease initiative for the study of obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and other health problems worldwide and the consortia to investigate risk factors of esophageal and pancreatic cancer (StoP consortium and PANC4 consortium).
Prof. Ana Esplugues is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Nursing and Podiatry at the University of Valencia. She is a member of the
49CIBERESP group and of the Joint Research Unit in Epidemiology, Environment, and Health (UJI-FISABIO-UV). Her research focuses on exposure to air pollution, determinants, and health effects through geostatistical techniques and environmental epidemiology. She has authored 45 indexed publications and has participated in 20 projects.
