Meet the expert: Patangi K. Rangachari

His scientific research has focused on the effects of inflammatory mediators on ion transport, but if there is one thing that has made Patangi K. Rangachari, emeritus professor at McMaster University in Canada, world famous, it is his contributions to university education. The Esteve Foundation instigated a new international activity, Meet the Expert, with the…

2017

9th edition – Barcelona, February, 21-22 2017

On 21 and 22 February 2017, the course El científico ante los medios de comunicación (The scientist and the media) was held at the Sant Cugat TVE studios, for scientists to gain an in-depth view of an editorial staff. Once again organized by the Esteve Foundation, Indagando TV, the CSIC and the Instituto RTVE, this two-day experience enabled scientists to learn the…

2017

Contents of public health in nursing degree

This initiative goes way back. Such diverse degrees as medicine, social work and teaching give subjects on public health in their degree courses. Therefore in 2010, the Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (SEE) and the Sociedad Española de Salud Pública y Administración Sanitaria (SESPAS) decided to unite criteria and agree on basic contents that should be…

2017

39th edition – Barcelona, October, 26-27 2016

The 39th edition of these training seminars to provide the basic skills and techniques to write and publish scientific articles in health sciences was held on October 26-27 2016 at the Banc de Sang i Teixits. Esteve Fernandez, editor of Gaceta Sanitaria from 2004 to 2010, and Carmen Vives, associate editor of Gaceta Sanitaria, conducted…

2016

15th edition – Barcelona, April, 28-29 2016

If standing up and speaking in front of an audience is a source of anxiety, the stress is heightened even more when the official language of the conference, meeting or congress is English. On the 28th and 29th of April 2016, the Esteve Foundation organized in Barcelona with the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute a new…

2016

14th edition – Barcelona, April, 6-7 2016

If standing up and speaking in front of an audience is a source of anxiety, the stress is heightened even more when the official language of the conference, meeting or congress is English. On the 6th and 7th of April 2016, the Esteve Foundation organized in Barcelona with the IRB Barcelona a new edition of…

2016

Escepticemia.Una mirada escéptica sobre la salud y la información

“Sceptics are people who, far from accepting everything they are told, have doubts. They analyse data assessing how they were obtained, they seek counterexamples, revise efficacy, examine compatibility with other generally established principles and the consequences of their application. They do not accept the principle of authority or tradition, but the principle of proof”. This…

2016
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