Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Contact person

Dr Salvador de Mateo Ontañón (PEAC Director)
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
C/Sinesio Delgado 6
28029 Madrid, Spain
Tel +34 91 822 26 09
Fax +34 91 387 78 16

or

Dr Dionisio Jose Herrera Guibert (PEAC Academic Director)
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
C/Sinesio Delgado 6
28029 Madrid, Spain
Tel + 34 91 822 20 33
Fax +34 91 387 78 16

Juan de Mata Donado Campos (PEAC Academic Coordinator)
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
C/Sinesio Delgado 6
28029 Madrid, Spain
Tel +34 91 822 22 32
Fax +34 91 387 78 16

Description of the institute

The Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) belongs to the "Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo" (Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs). It provides service and research in Public Health to the Ministry of Health and to the Autonomous Communities of Spain.

The Institute is located in Madrid, in two campus: Chamartin and Majadahonda. Among other centres, they host:
  • Oficina del Director y Secretaría General (Office of the ISCIII´s Director and Administrative Services)
  • Agencia de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias (Agency of Evaluation of Health Technologies)
  • Escuela Nacional de Sanidad (National School of Public Health)
  • Centro Nacional de Epidemiología (National Centre of Epidemiology)
  • Biblioteca Nacional de Ciencias de la Salud (National Library of Health Sciences)
  • Escuela Nacional de Medicina del Trabajo (National School of Occupational Health)
  • Centro Nacional de Medicina Tropical (National Centre of Tropical Medicine)
  • Centro Nacional de Microbiología (National Centre of Microbiology), declared Reference laboratory
  • Centro Nacional de Sanidad Ambiental (National Centre of Environmental Health)

    The National Centre of Epidemiology (CNE) has three main departments:
  • Área de Epidemiología Aplicada (Applied Epidemiology Department), dedicated to research on neuro-epidemiology, hosting the National Registry of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, and cardiovascular diseases epidemiology.
  • Área de Epidemiología Ambiental y Cáncer (Environmental Epidemiology and Cancer Department)
  • Área de Vigilancia de la Salud Pública (Public Health Surveillance Department), including the Epidemiological Surveillance Service that coordinates the National Surveillance Network: Mandatory notification of diseases, Microbiological Information System, National Registry of AIDS, etc.
Hosted in the CNE, the "Programa de Epidemiología Aplicada de Campo", PEAC (Spanish Field Epidemiology Training Programme) started in 1994 after an agreement between the ISCIII and the US´CDC and operates thanks to the collaboration of the National School of Public Health, the Ministry of Health and the Autonomous Communities.

Training

The training of the EPIET fellows in Spain is quite integrated in the training of PEAC´ fellows. To know more about the philosophy, operation and results of PEAC (click on link) please go to their website (only in Spanish).

Training history

The number of the PEACs graduated from the Program is 85:

Cohort Graduation Graduates
1st 1996 6
2nd 1997 9
3rd 1998 6
4th 1999 8
5th 2000 6
6th 2001 4
7th 2002 8
8th 2003 6
9th 2004 8
10th 2005 8
11th 2006 7
12th 2007 9
In training:
13th cohort: 7 PEACs
14th cohort: 7 PEACs

The number and origin of the EPIET fellows graduated from the PEAC is 8:
  • 1 from The Netherlands, graduated in 1997
  • 1 from Portugal, graduated in 1998
  • 1 from Germany, graduated in 2002
  • 1 from France, graduated in 2003
  • 1 from Belgium, graduated in 2004
  • 1 from Sweden, graduated in 2005
  • 1 from The Netherlands, graduated in 2006

  • 1 from The Netherlands, graduated in 2007 

2 EPIET fellows are currently based at the Institute:
  • 1 from Belgium (EPIET cohort 12 and PEAC cohort 13)
  • 1 from Romania (EPIET cohort 13 and PEAC cohort 14)
  • Available as a training site for EPIET cohort 14: Yes

This website -www.epiet.org- is hosted and updated by Smittskyddsinstitutet, Sweden.