Oscar Franco#
| Membership Number: | 6283 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4606-4929 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Professor and Director of Public Health, Utrecht University
- 2018 - Dec 2021 Director and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- 2018 - present Director Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
- 2019 - present Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, United States
- 2020 - present Scientific Advisor France24 (national television channel)
- 2015 - 2018 Deputy Science Director. Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences, Rotterdam
- 2015 - 2018 Cofounder and CEO of Erasmus Epidemiology Resources, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- 2012 - 2018 Professor of Preventive Medicine, Dept. of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- 2012 - 2018 Principal Investigator of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Group. Dept. of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- 2012 - 2018 Founder and Director of ErasmusAGE, intergenerational research center focused on health and ageing. Dept. of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- 2009 - 2012 Clinical lecturer and Director MPhil. Dept. of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- 2008 - 2009 Clinical registrar and assistant prof. Warwick University, Medical School, Coventry, UK
- 2006 - 2008 Public Health epidemiologist. Unilever, Corporate Research, Sharnbrook, UK
- 2002 - 2006 Scientific Researcher (PhD, Post-doctoral investigator). Dept. of Public Health, ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- 2000 - 2002 General medicine in primary care. FOS-CAL, Bucaramanga, Colombia
- 1999 - 2000 General physician Hospital Integrado San Juan de Dios de Barichara, Barichara, Colombia
Fields of Scholarship
- Epidemiology
- Public health
- Healthy ageing
- Cardiovascular disease prevention
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Honorary Professor, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
- 2020 Epidemiology Academic of the Year (Europe), Global Health and Pharma, United Kingdom
- 2005 National public health award, the Netherlands
