PEDRO ARCOS GONZÁLEZ

Secondary education in Oxford (UK). Doctor of Medicine and Surgery (MD, PhD, Oviedo) and Doctor of Sciences in Public Health (DSc, London). Specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Master's degree in Health Administration and Health Economics (National School of Public Health, Madrid). Diploma in Biomathematics (Université Paris Sorbonne). Trained as an Epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK) and at INSERM (France). Epidemiologist with over 30 years of experience in the control of communicable diseases and epidemics in complex emergency and disaster situations. He was one of the founders of the NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and has worked on the ground in the design, implementation, and evaluation of Epidemiology and Emergency Medicine programs in Central and East Africa (Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia, Sudan), Central and South America (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia), and Central and Southwest Asia (Nepal, Georgia, Uzbekistan, the Philippines, Vietnam). He has also served as a United Nations Medical Officer and is a technical advisor to the World Health Organization. He is currently a Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health in the Department of Medicine at the University of Oviedo, where in 1995 he founded the Emergency and Disaster Research Unit (UIED, part of the Environmental Epidemiology Research Group), the only unit in Spanish universities specializing in public health in emergencies and disasters. He is a member of the Chair of Climate Change and a research fellow at the University of Oxford.