Organizing Committee Member
Oscar H. Franco
Director
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)
Switzerland
Biography
Prof. Franco obtained his MD at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá in 1998. He moved to the Netherlands to complete MSc and DSc degrees in clinical epidemiology and a PhD in public health and cardiovascular disease prevention (2005) at the Erasmus University Medical Center. Following a postdoc at Erasmus MC, he moved to the UK where he was a senior public health epidemiologist at Unilever England, assistant professor of public health at the University of Warwick, and then director of the MPhil program and clinical lecturer in public health at the University of Cambridge.
Research Area
Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology, Public Health, Cardiovascular disease prevention, Ageing research