Oriol Mitjà

Oriol Mitjà (Arenys de Munt, 1980) is a medical researcher specializing in infectious diseases associated with poverty. He studied Medicine and earned his PhD at the University of Barcelona. He is currently a European Research Council professor, head of section at Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital, and an adviser to the World Health Organization. He has authored numerous scientific papers that have received international recognition and led to renewed efforts to eradicate yaws and control mpox and syphilis. In 2013, he received the Princess of Girona Foundation Award; in 2017, the Catalan of the Year Award; and in 2019 and 2024, the European Research Council’s Starting Grant and Consolidator Grant, respectively. In 2021, he published A cor obert. Relat de tot el que he viscut to great acclaim, followed by El món que ens espera in 2022.

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