Cristina O'Callaghan

She has a degree in Biology (2005) from the University of Barcelona (UB) and a master's degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM, 2011). She completed her PhD (2011) at the Barcelona International Health Centre (CRESIB-UB, Barcelona) and the Manhiça Health Research Centre (CISM, Mozambique). In 2013 she joined the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL, now ISGlobal) as a postdoctoral researcher within the cancer programme. In 2016 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Medical Statistics at LSHTM. In 2017 she obtained a PERIS grant (Generalitat de Catalunya) and obtained a position as a research assistant professor at ISGlobal. Since 2017, she has combined her research activity with teaching at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and, since February 2020, as a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), where she has launched and co-directed the UOC-UPF-ISGlobal Interuniversity Master's Degree in Planetary Health. Her research activity is oriented to the study of a wide range of environmental exposures in association with noncommunicable diseases in both high-income countries (HIC) and middle- and low-income countries, under a Planetary Health perspective. Currently, her main areas of research are: (i) heat stress and kidney diseases (including chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology), (ii) extractive industries and indigenous health, and (iii) urbanization and noncommunicable diseases.