Miquel Porta

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Miquel Porta (

From 1994 to 1998 he was President of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE). From 2002 to 2005 he was European Councillor of the International Epidemiological Association (IEA) and Chairman of the IEA European Epidemiology Federation.^[9]

He is (co)author of several hundred academic papers.^[10] Beyond his main lines of research, he has written on topics such as causality^[11] and the Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) / Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) link,^[12][13] persistent organic pollutants and public health,^{[14][15][16][17][18]} genome metaphors,^[19] the bibliographic impact factor and scientific journals,^{[20][21][22][23]} or the roles of scientific associations,^[24][25] among other issues.^{[26][27][28][29][30][31] [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]}

He is an editor of the ‘Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health’ [3], and the ‘European Journal of Epidemiology’.^[40]

In 2018 he published his first book addressed to the general public on human internal contamination and ways to prevent it.^[41] In 2019 he edited 'Los imaginarios colectivos, la salud pública y la vida. Para conversar desde las artes sobre nuestro bienestar en sociedad', an internationally unique collection of texts relating public health and medicine with the arts.^[42] In 2022 he published 'Epidemiología cercana', a collection of essays on epidemiology, culture, ethics, and policies.^[43]

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