Fernando Simón Soria

Medical Doctor and Epidemiologist trained in Spain, England and France, Fernando Simón is holding the post of Director of the Spanish Coordinating Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies at the Ministry of Health since 2012 and coordinates the National Surveillance Network. He was researcher at the Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos III between 2003 and 2011 and previously hold posts of responsibility in public health, epidemiology and research in several countries and international organisations in Africa, Latin America and Europe. He has extensive experience in health crisis response coordination, public health surveillance, epidemiology, research, planning preparedness and control of infectious diseases and teaching in different settings at national and international level. Fernando Simón is coordinator of the Spanish IHR Focal Point and GOARN, member of the Advisory Forum of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and National focal point for Scientific Advice and member of the Health Security Committee of European Union. Fernando Simón coordinates the public health response for the COVID-19 crisis in Spain, is member of the Scientific advise committee and the National committee for the management of the crisis and plays the role of technical spoke person for the population and the media.