The program is made up of approximately 180 people, organized into 11 research groups with international reputation for their excellence and research relevance.
The mission of the program is to assess and improve the prevention and care of diseases with high social impact, using epidemiology as the methodology for its research; this mission is aligned with that of other programs at the Institute (Neurosciences, Cancer, Translational Clinical Research, and Biomedical Informatics) and with the clinical priorities of the Hospital del Mar Research Institute.
Cardiovascular prevention and epidemiology: a) burden of cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors; b) predictive functions of cardiovascular risk; c) identification of new biomarkers, including omics; d) precision medicine; e) development of innovative and personalized preventive systems.
Mental Health prevention and epidemiology: a) burden of mental and occupational diseases; b) reduction of health inequalities in the general population, people with diseases, and healthcare workers; c) suicide prevention through the development of clinical decision support systems.
Cancer epidemiology and prevention: a) evaluation and new personalized strategies for cancer screening programs; b) clinical and psychosocial aspects of long-term cancer survivors; c) exposure to contaminants.
Healthcare services evaluation and patient experience: a) development of outcome and patient-reported experience measures (PROMs/ PREMs) and their implementation in routine clinical care; b) comparative effectiveness of healthcare interventions from the patient's perspective.
Work conditions and health of professionals: a) identification of emerging occupational risks and new methodologies; b) assessment of workload and pace of work; c) advisory on occupational health policies; d) follow-up of cohorts of workers, including specifically those in the healthcare sector.
Social determinants generating inequality: a) accessibility to health services and care; b) economic analysis of public health policies.
Among the program's groups, 7 are members of the Spanish collaborative research excellence network CIBER (CIBERESP, CIBERCV, CIBEROBN, and CIBERSAM), 4 from SGR networks, and 1 from RICOR (RICAPPS Network for Chronicity, Primary Care, and Health Promotion); scientific collaborations are recorded with 15 of the 42 accredited research centers in Catalonia (CERCA).
It is a very active program in terms of international and national research collaborations with prominent consortia: Cardiovascular Genomics (GnomAD), Cardiovascular Epidemiology (EURHOBOP, EUROTRACS, Framingham Heart Study, NCD-Risk, University of Talca Chile, Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, CORDELIA), Mental Health Epidemiology (WMH-World Mental Health Surveys); European Commission Initiative for Breast and Colorectal Cancer, developing the guidelines for screening; others: PERMANENS: Precision Medicine for Suicide Prevention; Patient-Reported Outcome Research (PROMIS, Movember Foundation, EUonQoL); International Standards in PROM Analysis (SISAQOL); Occupational Health (ISST-Ibero-American Occupational Safety and Health Observatory); MODERNET Monitoring Occupational Diseases and tracing New and Emerging Risks in a NETwork; Cochrane Collaboration-Cochrane Work; Global Brain Health Institute; Nutritional Epidemiology (PREDIMED, PREDIMEDplus).
EPISAP groups and lead investigators are:
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