Dr. Antoni Plasencia is a Medical Epidemiology and Public Health specialist, with more than 35 years of experience in the field of public health and global health systems.
He is currently a Distinguished Fellow and Former Director at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), as well as Medical Consultant at the Department of International Health of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and Associated Professor at the University of Barcelona.
He was Director General of Public Health of Catalonia, Spain (2004-2011), and was actively involved in the design of the Catalan Public Health Act, as well as in the creation of the Public Health Agency of Catalonia, as previously of the Barcelona Public Health Agency.
His professional activity focuses mainly on epidemiology and public health, with extensive work in the field of health systems and public health.
He graduated in Medicine (MD) from the University of Barcelona in 1981, and holds a Ph.D. from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1996) and a Master in Public Health from Yale University, USA (1986), as a Fullbright-la Caixa Scholar.
