Biography:
Pedro Plans-Rubió has been Responsible for Health Registries, Public Health Agency of Catalonia, Health Department of Catalonia, Spain. He received his MD from the School of Medicine, University of Barcelona; his PhD from the School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, his MSc in Health Economics from the School of Economics, University of Barcelona, and his MSc in Design of clinical and epidemiological studies from the School of Medicine, University of Barcelona. Specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Specialist in Labor Medicine. Member of the research group CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. He has published more than 100 articles in scientific journals on the epidemiology of infectious diseases, epidemiology of risk factors for chronic diseases and for infectious diseases, seroepidemiology, cost-effectiveness analysis of medicines and health programs, vaccination programs, and health policy. He has published more than 100 articles in scientific journals. He has published the book “Application of the cost-effectiveness of medicines and health programs in the health planning”, Elsevier, 2015. Editor-in Chief of Section “Vaccine Efficacy and Safety” of the journal Vaccines and Editor of several Special Issues of the journal Vaccines. Member of the Editorial Board of the journals Pharmacoeconomics Open.
Title : COVID-19 vaccination strategies in the post-pandemic era
Title : Factors associated with non-adherence to tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment among adult contacts of pulmonary TB cases with latent TB infection in Spain
Title : Adapted mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have a limited ability to establish herd immunity in the population against Omicron BA.1 and BA4-5 variants of SARS-CoV-2