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Extreme heat and mortality

Project 'Geographic variability of the effect of extreme heat episodes on mortality in Catalonia. The case of Summer 2022'

This project aims to analyse the geographical variability of the effect of extreme heat episodes on mortality in Catalonia, particularly in the summer of 2022, as well as to estimate what part of the excess can be attributed to extreme heat, direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 and other causes, particularly during 2022.

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COVID-19

The COVID-19 epidemic was declared by the WHO a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020. Since then, I have worked with other researchers to understand the magnitude and characteristics of it and its socioeconomic and environmental evolution, as well as the prevalence of its infection.

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COVID-19

GRECS researchers develop PandemonCAT, a web application to track updated data on the pandemic.

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Motoneuron disease

ALS is a devastating disease that currently has no cure. ALS research in the field of epidemiology is still scarce today and, in part, this has contributed to the fact that it is one of my main lines of research in the field of clinical epidemiology.

Dr. María A. Barceló

I am an Associate Professor in the area of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business in the Department of Economics at the University of Girona and I am accredited by the Spanish ‘Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA)’ as a Full Professor from March 2018.

I have a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Girona and a degree in Mathematics from the ‘Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona’. I belong to several research groups in Statistics, Econometrics and Health.

My main lines of research are both methodological and applied, with the purpose, not only of generating knowledge, but also of applying it to fight against global health problems such as social and environmental inequalities, chronic diseases, climate change and other emerging diseases like the current pandemic.

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COVID-19 Mortality Centenarians (people who live past 100) have low levels of glucose, creatinine, and uric acid

In addition to blood biomarkers, it is important to consider socioeconomic context to understand why some people live past 100.

Socioeconomic and Environmental inequalities The Generalitat of Catalonia grants a project to GRECS to study the role of extreme heat in mortality

16.22% of the deaths in the summer of 2022 in Catalonia were directly attributed to extreme heat.

COVID-19 COVID-19 caused three times more deaths in the world (64% more in Spain) than official data says

Worldwide, the number of deaths is 18 million, three times the number of reported deaths