!!!Oscar Franco \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='Franco_Oscar_small.jpg' alt='Oscar Franco' height='220'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ __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__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __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 \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Franco_Oscar/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Franco_Oscar/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Franco_Oscar/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Franco_Oscar/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit ofranco}] [{ALLOW upload ofranco}] [{ALLOW comment All}]