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  • Enrique Bernal-Delgado

    Enrique Bernal-Delgado M.D., Ph.D.

    Senior Researcher in Healthcare Services and Policies, Data Science for Health Services and Policy Research, Institute for Health Sciences in Aragón (IACS)
    Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
    Research Profile
    Enrique Bernal-Delgado MD PhD is also Master in Public Health and Master in Health Economics. After a period as Visiting Scholar at The Dartmouth Institute (Dartmouth Medical School, NH, USA), he founded the Data Sciences for Health Services and Policy research group at the Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (IACS), where he holds the position of Senior Scientist. Currently, he is acting as elected member of the Board of Directors of the European Open Science Cloud.
    His scientific career comprises data-driven health services and policy research, setting up research infrastructures for real-world health data mobilisation and, more recently, contributing to the construction of the European Health Data Space for secondary use.
     
    Data-driven health services and policy research: he has been studying unwarranted variations in clinical practice and health systems performance since 2001. Most representative projects have been:
     
    • AtlasVPM, interested in the systematic and comprehensive evaluation of low-value care in the Spanish national health system. In 2010, led ECHO with a view to expand the Spanish Atlas to several EU countries
    • CONCEPT, a project studying the association between care trajectories and health outcomes in four cohorts of patients: acute ischaemic stroke, type II diabetes, congestive heart failure and female breast cancer survivors;
    • ICCONIC, a global initiative that is contributing to the comparative analysis of care pathways in high-need high-cost patients;
    • In PHIRI and By-COVID, the group has developed the federated infrastructure that has allowed the assessment of indirect effects of the COVID19 pandemic, and the evaluation of the real-life effectiveness of the vaccines, respectively;
    • GREG Project, an IHI project meant to elaborate guidance on the use of real-world data in Health Technology Assessment and Regulation.
  • Paco

    Francisco Estupiñán-Romero M.D., Ph.D.

    Researcher in Healthcare Services and Policies, Data Science for Health Services and Policy Research, Institute for Health Sciences in Aragón (IACS)
    Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
    Research Profile
    Francisco Estupiñán-Romero is a Medical Doctor, specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health, with a PhD in Medicine. He holds two Master's degrees in Public Health and Healthcare Administration and Management. He works as a researcher in the Data Science for Health Services and Policy Research Group at the Health Science Institute in Aragón (IACS).

    His research areas are a) the study of unwarranted variations in health systems performance (i.e., the analysis of equity, utilisation, quality and safety, and effectiveness and efficiency), including the policy analysis of those health systems; b) the study of real-life effectiveness of complex interventions, particularly those delivered to chronic and fragile populations; and, c) methods and technologies for the reuse of massive real-world data, with interest in federated analyses.
     
    He is a collaborating author for the Health System Policy Monitor (HSPM) and the Health System Response Monitor to Spain's COVID-19 pandemic (HSRM) websites by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.

    He is a member of the Spanish Atlas of Variations in Medical Practice (AtlasVPM group), the Spanish Research Network (RICAPPS), and the Health Economics Association (AES).

    He is a former member of the Evaluation Committee for the Health Benefits package of the Healthcare Department of the Aragón Regional Ministry of Health. Currently, he acts as a vocal of the Technical Commission of Cartography of the Government of Aragon.
  • Javi

    Javier González Galindo M.Sc.

    Data Engineer, Data Science for Health Services and Policy Research, Institute for Health Sciences in Aragón (IACS)
    Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
    Research Profile

    Javier González-Galindo is a Computer Scientist who specializes in Software Development. He holds a Master's Degree in Computational and Mathematical Engineering. He is a data engineer in the Data Science for Health Services and Policy Research Group at the Health Science Institute in Aragón (IACS). His main research areas are efficient data quality management, federated data analyses and the application of artificial intelligence algorithms to health services and policy research questions.

  • Santi

    Santiago Royo Sierra M.Sc.

    Data Analyst, Data Science for Health Services and Policy Research, Institute for Health Sciences in Aragón (IACS)
    Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
    Research Profile

    Santiago Royo-Sierra is a physicist and holds a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering. Currently, he serves as a Data Analyst in the Data Science for Health Services and Policy research group at the Institute for Health Sciences in Aragon, Spain (IACS). In addition to his role, he is pursuing a PhD, focusing on the application of advanced statistical methods to analyse and improve health system performance. His main research interests include health data analytics, machine learning applications in healthcare, and the development of predictive models to enhance patient outcomes and healthcare efficiency.