Professor Jose Martin-Moreno (MD, PhD, MPH, DrPH) is a specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health, trained at the University of Granada (Spain) and Harvard University (USA). His work focuses on Epidemiology, Cancer and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), Public Health Services, and Health Policy & Management. He is Full Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Valencia and co-Director of the Andrija Stampar European Summer School of Public Health. He also leads the Chair for Innovative Health Management at the Economy and Health Foundation, promoting benchmarking and strategic excellence in healthcare services.

Dr Martin-Moreno has held senior leadership roles, including Director of Programme Management at WHO/Europe and Director-General & Chief Medical Officer of Spain. He has advised key European institutions, such as the European Commission (DG Health and Consumers; DG Research), the Scientific and Technical Office of the European Parliament, the European Institute of Oncology, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). He is Past President of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) and served for 18 years as Senior Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with joint part-time appointments in Health Policy and Management and Epidemiology. He chaired the Scientific Committee of the 9th European Conference on Tobacco or Health (ECToH), Madrid 2023.

He has authored over 450 scientific publications, including papers in leading journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, BMJ, Annals of Oncology and the European Journal of Cancer.

Currently, Dr Martin-Moreno is Policy Adviser to the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and WHO/Europe. He is a Member of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences, Core Faculty of the European School of Oncology, and member of the ESMO Public Policy Committee and the Scientific Committee of the European Code Against Cancer. He also serves on the Board of the Spanish League Against Cancer and Spain’s Royal Academy of Medicine.

His work has been recognised with the Harvard Alumni Award of Merit (Harvard School of Public Health) and the Andrija Stampar Award and Medal for lifelong contributions to Public Health. He is an Honorary Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health (FFPH), Royal College of Physicians.