Dr Mònica Ubalde
Position
Lecturer
Qualifications
PhD in Biomedicine (Epidemiology and Public Health)(UPF)
Master’s Degree in Occupational Health (UPF)
Bachelor’s Degree in Biology (UAB)
Biography
Mònica Ubalde is a researcher in epidemiology and public health. She is currently working in environmental epidemiology (urban, environmental and health planning) and has considerable experience in occupational epidemiology. Her research has included how multimorbidity affects the inability to work and how workers’ employment history affects their health. She has worked as a postdoc at the University of Texas, the University Medical Center Groningen-UMCG and the University of Stockholm. She has taught master’s degree courses at UPF and UPC and supervised nine master’s dissertations and one PhD thesis.
Subjects they teach
Introduction to Health Sciences
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Programme:
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This is an introductory course to the field of health sciences in the areas of both preventive and clinical therapeutic health practices, with a focus on subjects related to critical thinking and problem solving. Research models and trends in the health sciences. The course will go over basic concepts in the health sciences and their relationship with the causation and prevention of disease.
2019-2020 teaching plan subject (in extinction).