He is full university professor of Parasitology and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre and of the FAO/United Nations’ Centre of Reference which are linked to the UV. He talked about the changes in diseases throughout Europe and the needs which arise as a consequence of diagnosis, prevention and control actualisation.
1 july 2016
Professor Mas-Coma, Director od the Master’s Degree in Tropical Parasitic Diseases of the Universitat de Vañpencia, carried out the guest lecture at the "XI Workshop of the European Union Reference Laboratories for Parasites", which receives reference sites from all countries within the European Union, as well as from the rest of European countries (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of Stockholm, the Health Direction of the European Committee and the European Agency for Food Safety, added to other external countries such as EEUU and others. The meeting took place at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome with a great participation from several experts. Spain was represented by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Majadahonda from Madrid in the field of Human Health, and by the Laboratorio Central de Sanidad Animal de Santa Fe in Grenada in the field of veterinarian interest.
In a one-hour conference Professor Mas-Coma highlighted the changes in diseases in aspects related to causal agents, vector transmission, the rise in the number of complications in pathology and epidemiology, the difficulties in diagnosis, and all that related to prevention and control measures. Such analyses were illustrated using examples of diseases which are increasing in Europe due to climate change and globalisation, or that have resulted in recent or current epidemics after being introduced in our continent from the outside.
At the end of his intervention, Professor Mas-Coma answered several questions risen by experts, in an ending which reflected the great interest the assistants showed for his dissertation.
