穆尼奥斯, 何塞

Dr. Jose Muñoz is a medical doctor, who specialized in internal medicine and infectious diseases with more than 15 years of experience in this specialty. He has worked as a doctor and researcher in Ivory Coast, Mozambique and Latin America. He is currently Head of the International Health Service at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. In the field of research, he works as Associate Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). His work here focuses on clinical and epidemiological research on imported tropical diseases among travellers and immigrants and neglected tropical diseases. In the field of teaching, he is an associate professor at the University of Barcelona, his teaching activity is mainly directed at the Master in International Health at the University of Barcelona since 2005 and more recently at the Master in Global Health at ISGlobal. He also teaches several courses related to imported diseases. Lines of research: - Imported infectious diseases in travellers and migrants: Clinical and epidemiological research of imported diseases in travellers especially focused on parasitic infections and vector-borne diseases. - Neglected Tropical Diseases: Main interest in soil-transmitted helminths: diagnosis and treatment. -Migration and health: The study of parasitic infections in migrants in Europe, particularly in the Latin American population. Special interest in diagnosis, case detection and screening.