The Epidemiology and Public Health research group, the thirty-first at UVic-UCC, is established

The Governing Council of the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia has approved the establishment of the Research Group in Epidemiology and Public Health (GRESP) led by the researcher Albert Espelt. This is the thirty-first research group at UVic-UCC, and it will be based on the Manresa campus.

The GRESP will work in the field of the medical and health sciences, and on transferring information and studying the population's health, with an emphasis on social factors and social inequalities as its primary working area. One of the main lines in the research group's work is observing public health among young people. It also aims to monitor the health of young people and adolescents in central Catalonia. The researchers aim to study health behaviours in depth, including drug and alcohol abuse, sexuality and violence. It will be using a panel of surveys on health and their social determining factors for students at secondary school, high school and vocational training programmes to that end. The group's ultimate goal is to analyse community health programmes in order to extract scientific evidence from various health interventions and policies.

The group has been established to address all the demands received by the Faculty of Health Sciences of UVic-UCC at Manresa, as a result of the many projects in this field it has worked on in recent years, such as the health plan in Manresa, the Healthy University project and various surveys of secondary school students. The GRESP consists of six researchers at the UVic-UCC Faculty of Health Sciences in Manresa, and a researcher at the Open University of Catalonia.