Pablo Hernández-Marrero is Full Professor of Public Health and Health Services Research. Now, Research Coordinator (equivalent to Full Professor) in Public Health: Health Services Research and Health Policy; Co-coordinator, Public Health Palliative Care Research Team, FUNDACAO GASPAR FRUTUOSO, UNIVERSIDADE DOS AÇORES (UAc); Integrated Researcher, CEEAplA, UAc. Co-PI & Team Leader of EU-funded projects implementing EU strategic Missions in Health, Cancer and Ethics in Science.

Holds a Ph.D. in Health Services Research, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, now integrated in Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada, 2006. In 1991, obtained his MPH with thesis on Supportive Cancer Care in one of the pioneer Palliative Care Units in Spain (Hospital El Sabinal, Gran Canaria) under the co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Marcos Gómez Sancho, a pioneer of palliative medicine, founder and president of the Spanish Society for Palliative Care. Awarded a 3-year Postdoc in Bioethics Empirical Research within an EU-project on Research Ethics and Clinical Dementia Research. Successfully completed all courses of the Ph.D. in Bioethics (pending dissertation), UCP.

Pablo was Visiting Researcher at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (Netherlands), and the Hospice Seràgnoli Foundation, Accademia delle Scienze di Medicina Palliativa, Bologna (Italy), and Visiting Professor at the University of the Azores (Portugal), and at the Palliative and Supportive Care Service, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne (Switzerland).

In Canada, Pablo worked for over 10 years in academic (e.g., University of Toronto, University of New Brunswick) and healthcare organizations (e.g., University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital) where he built up a wide know-how in multiple national and international projects and organizations. He has extensive clinical, research and executive management experience across the continuum of services in primary care, long-term care, and large university teaching hospitals, both in Canada and Spain. He also worked as an international consultant and team leader in national and international public health and health services projects. Member of Research Ethics Committees and Clinical Research Ethics Committee.

He has worked in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate education (e.g., programs in health services research, public health, medicine, health policy, management, palliative care, bioethics and research methods in several countries): Professor of Public Health and 1st - 2nd year Master Theses Coordinator, Europubhealth+: European Public Health Master (ERASMUS+ Program), Andalusian School of Public Health, Spain; Professor and Coordinator, MBA: Health Administration, MBA Business School, Spain; Professor of Public Health at the Jagiellonian University Medical College, Institute of Public Health, Poland; Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain; Invited Professor, Europubhealth+, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Institute of Public Health, Krakov, Poland; Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Europubhealth+ and Europhamili-ManaHealth (EU Leonardo da Vinci program), National School of Public Health - Rennes, France; Faculty of Health Sciences, ULPGC, Puerto Montt, Chile; Faculty of Business Administration, University of New Brunswick, Canada; Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra; Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Bioethics (IB) and Invited Professor at the IB and Católica Doctoral School, UCP. Principal Investigator (Research Associate Professor), co-leading Palliative Care and Cancer Research, within the Ethics and Sustainability Research Area, CEGE, UCP.

Pablo is directly involved in the development and leadership of several ongoing research activities building cross-collaborations and bridges with peers in national and international fields. Pablo is WP lead/co-lead in several EU-funded projects (Horizon Europe, COST Action, and ERASMUS+) in Portugal focusing on the following topics: (i) Improved supportive, palliative, survivorship and end-of-life care of cancer patients; (ii) Novel approaches for palliative and end-of-life care for non-cancer patients; and (iii) Ethics in science with and for society.

As a health services researcher, he led and participated in national and international action and applied research conducted in the areas of cancer and immuno-oncology, palliative and end-of-life care, clinical dementia research, public health, health services outcomes and evaluation, organization sciences, precision medicine, research ethics and scientific integrity, and bioethics. His research combines the areas of Health Research, Health Services Research (e.g., outcomes research, comparative effectiveness research and evaluation), Implementation Science, Bioethics Empirical Research, and Supportive, Survivorship, Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research; establishing micro-meso-macro linkages with justice and inequities in health aiming to improve healthcare organizations and systems making them more effective, efficient, ethical, and sustainable. 

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