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In 2019, the CIBERESP Scientific Conference of the Clinical Epidemiology programme on “Rapid Reviews in the healthcare setting” was organised. The meeting “The Cochrane Library in the framework of evidence-based health care” was also held. Presentation by Cochrane Madrid ” at the Spanish Ministry of Health, Consumer affairs and Social Welfare, in which the groups of X. Bonfill, J. Zamora, B. Lumbreras Lacarra and J.I. Emparanza made presen- tations.
Training Programme
Coordinator: Beatriz Pérez Gómez
The Training Programme has maintained its two basic lines of action: mobility actions, designed to facilitate contact and work with other national or international groups, and improvement actions, aimed at improving and rewarding the quality of scientific work or enhancing its dissemination in Public Health forums.
In 2019, the categories of mobility grants, created to promote the collaboration of CIBERESP researchers with each other and with other groups, have been maintained. These grants are intramural, meaning that they are intended exclusively for CIBERESP staff. At the national level, a total of 4 grants have been offered for short stays between CIBERESP groups. International mobility has also been enhanced with a total of 3 grants issued this year, through short three-month stays that CIBERESP calls annually to enable its doctoral students to obtain an international mention, aimed at contracted and assigned staff and contributors; as well as stays of up to 3 months in prestigious international centres aimed exclusively at contracted personnel from the thematic area.
The extramural improvement grants are open to researchers from outside the CIBERESP area and are a good tool to enhance collaboration with other CIBER areas. These aim to promote quality research in Public Health. In 2019, the existing agreement with CIBEROBN, CIBERONC and CIBERCV has been maintained to collaborate in the Encounter for Excellence in Public Health Research that CIBERESP traditionally organises at the Public Health Summer School in the Lazareto de Maó in Menorca. This meeting is intended to provide young CIBER scientists in training the opportunity to directly debate and exchange ideas about their doctoral thesis projects in an informal setting with accredited scientists in Epidemiology and Public Health. In the 2019 call, a total of 10 grants were offered, of which 7 were funded by CIBERESP, while the areas of Obesity and Physiopathology of Nutrition (CIBEROBN), and that of Cardiovascular Diseases (CIBERCV) and Cancer (CIBERONC) each financed an attendance grant for doctoral students in their own field. This collaboration is very positive and we hope that the agreement will continue in 2020.
Furthermore, CIBERESP collaborates with the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE) with the financing of the Prizes for the 10 best communications presented by young research staff at the SEE Annual Scientific Meeting, which is held jointly with the Congress of the Portuguese Epidemiology Association, and the Ibero-American Congress of Epidemiology and Public Health, SESPAS/SEE. In its current format, this award includes a diploma and covers the cost of registering the winner at the meeting the following year. The Training Programme also encourages that training or scientific activities carried out by other entities establish special more favourable conditions for CIBERESP members to participate.