Fernando Rodríguez
IRTA-CReSA researcher responsible for the African Swine Fever line.
Francesc Accensi
Francesc Accensi i Alemany (Barcelona, 1971) finished his veterinary studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 1994 and defended his doctoral thesis on taxonomy of the Nigri Section of the fungal genus Aspergillus in the same faculty, in the year 2000. Between 2002 and 2005 he carried out a postdoctoral stay at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in Toulouse, studying the effect of various mycotoxins on the immune response of pigs. He has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Animal Health and Anatomy (UAB) since 2007, where he teaches in various undergraduate and postgraduate courses. In 2009 he joined the African Swine Fever research line of the Animal Health Research Center (CReSA), led by Dr. Fernando Rodríguez.
Anna Alba
The Dr. Ana Alba Casals is a Researcher in the Epidemiology and Analysis of Veterinary inside
the Health Program Animal -IRTA-CReSA since September 201
His main interest as a researcher focuses on the development of data mining tools aimed at infectious disease surveillance systems animals, the improvement of the management of
databases, the design and evaluation of surveillance systems and the analysis of spatial-temporal epidemiological data.
Between 2017 and 2018, works as a freelance consultant in veterinary epidemiology performing work for at the University of Minnesota (USA), the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the European University, the Pig Sanitation Group (Lleida) and the PIC business group, others . He does his postdoctoral research between 2015 and 2016 in the Department Veterinary Population Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
For more than 12 years he worked in the CReSA epidemiology team collaborating with
direct form in the design and evaluation of monitoring and contingency plans for notifiable diseases, management of health information systems and analysis and development of various epidemiological models at the level regional, national and international.
He collaborates with the Statistics Unit of the Department of Mathematics of the UAB, the University of Minnesota, Catholic University of Santiago de Chile,
Univ.de Thessaly (Greece), SVA-Sweden, IZSVe of Teramo.
She has spent several stays as a visiting researcher at Murdoch Univ. (WA Australia) and UPEI (Canada) in different surveillance projects.
She has participated as an instructor in various courses in surveillance, data management and GIS at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Minnesota (USA), PANAFTOSA FAO, Massey University (New Zealand) and the Spanish Agency for Cooperation conducting face-to-face courses in the USA. UU, Spain, Brazil, Tunisia, Mozambique and Nepal.
Enric Vidal
Enric Vidal, DVM, PhD. (Barcelona 1977). Finished his veterinary science studies in the Autonomous University of Barcelona the year 2000 and read his doctoral thesis in the same faculty on the subject of BSE central nervous system pathogenesis in 2006. Since 2002 has been in charge of the PRIOCAT laboratory in IRTA-CReSA (Animal Health Research Centre) which is the animal prion disease reference laboratory of Catalonia. PRIOCAT performs the screening and confirmatory diagnosis of animal TSEs in Catalonia’s ruminant livestock and also develops a government financed research line on TSE neuropathology based on the study of field cases and murine transgenic models. Since 2007 manages the Slaughterhouse support service (SESC) commissioned by the Health Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya (www.cresa.cat/blogs/sesc). It is a support service to aid meat inspectors obtain a final diagnosis on slaughterhouse findings. He also participates in pathological diagnosis of Tuberculosis surveillance and eradication program
