Jose María Martín, he holds a doctoral and medical degree from the University of Granada (MD, PhD), and a masters and doctoral degree from Harvard University (MPH, DrPH). He has extensive experience in the fields of medicine, public health and healthcare management. With over 300 publications, he has held important positions at both national and international levels.
In Spain, he has been Director of the National School of Public Health, of the Health Technology Assessment Agency and the Director-General of Public Health at the Ministry of Health. Internationally, he served as Director of Programme Management at the World
Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe and, before. He has also been President of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), and collaborated in different technical and scientific committees, including for the International
Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the European Commission (through diverse working groups organized under the Directorate General for Health and Consumers, and the Directorate General of Research), and the European Parliament, through the office
evaluating scientific and technical policy options (STOA, Science and Technology Options
Assessment). Currently, he is Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the
University of Valencia and Coordinating Physician of the Quality Unit at the University
Clinical Hospital of Valencia. He is a member of the Spain’s Royal Academy of Medicine
(within the Valencian Community section), Senior Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins
(USA), and Senior Adviser to the WHO Regional Office for Europe.
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