The CORE Program is a multidisciplinary network of researchers united by shared interests and resources in population research on the Can Ruti Campus. As one of the transversal programs of the IIS IGTP, CORE is part of IGTP's strategy for promoting research with a positive impact on the health of citizens.

Scope and aim

The main objectives of the CORE Program are:

• Visualisation of population-based research conducted at the Can Ruti Campus.
• Creation of a multidisciplinary research framework that facilitates synergies to design and implement applied research at the population level.
• Generation of knowledge to promote management and public health policies based on scientific evidence.
• Strengthening of primary care as the core pillar of the health system.

The program will pursue these aims through activities that:

• Encourage population based collaborative multidisciplinary research between the different actors on the Can Ruti Campus, including Primary Healthcare, and other primary care and public health units.
• Promote and visualise action-oriented program-based and participatory research.
• Facilitate the integration of research results into primary care clinical practice, hospital care and public health policies.
• Facilitate the integration of talent into research groups of the program and implement strategies to assure their sustainability and competitivity.
• Facilitate the use of shared technological platforms, facilities and analytical skills.
• Act as a hub for training and teaching to improve the population research abilities of its investigators and those on the Can Ruti Campus.
• Strengthen emerging groups.

Structure of the program

2025 highlights

In 2025, the CORE Program consolidated its scientific and training activities. The biostatistics program progressed with the completion of the Douglas Altman cycle (2024-2025) and the launch of the new Susie Bayarri cycle (2025-2026). In parallel, STI sessions and thematic seminars strengthened a multidisciplinary approach to population-based research.

The most notable event of the year was the 1st CORE Scientific Conference (June, BCIN), which brought together around one hundred professionals and became a key platform for networking and the development of new collaborations. As a result of this meeting, new lines of work were initiated and will be formalised during 2026, including areas such as population and molecular biology, community-based public health interventions, clinical research and population-level translation, the application of new technologies such as artificial intelligence in population research and shared data, and the use of databases in the primary care setting.

• 6 Douglas Altman Biostatistics Sessions
• 3 Susie Bayarri Biostatistics Sessions
• 4 STI Sessions
• 2 CORE Seminars

CORE activities 2026

Susie Bayarri (SB) Biostatistics Sessions: program and registration

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Sessions: program and registration

Seminars and 2nd Scientific Meeting: see the IGTP events calendar

Seminar recordings and presentations

Sessions ITS (in Catalan)

• ITS emergents: un enfoc a Mpox i Shigella [Xavier Vallès Casanova, 17/12/2024]
• Abordatge de la salut sexual i la promoció dels cribratges d'ITS en treballadores sexuals [Margarida Balaguer, 18/02/2025]
• ITS. Atenció des de les diversitats [Laura Clotet, 18/11/2025]
• Experiències de professionals sanitaris en la implementació de l'administració d'antiretrovirals long acting fora dels espais hospitalaris [Juan Leiva & Diana Hernández, 20/01/2026]
• Ètica i ITS [Roser Font, 31/03/2026]

Douglas Altman sessions

• Douglas Altman: less research, better research [Cristian Tebé Cordomí, 27/11/2024]
• Partial Ordered Stereotype Model, a New Model for Ordinal Data [Laia Egea Cortés, 12/12/2024]
• Propensity score methods to ensure fair comparisons between treatment groups in observational studies [Natàlia Pallarès Fontanet, 29/01/2025]
• Agreement assessment in continuous data with repeated measures [Josep Lluís Carrasco Jordan, 27/02/2025]
• The practice of structural equation models (SEM) [Albert Satorra, 27/03/2025]
• flowchart: A Tidy R Package for Data Flowchart Generation [Pau Satorra Herbera, 24/04/2025]
• Early-detection of high-risk patient profiles admitted to hospital with respiratory infections using a multistate model [João Carmezim, 05/06/2025]
• Integrating compositional data analysis in clustering: cluster membership probability as explanatory variable in regression modeling [Geòrgia Escaramís Babiano, 19/06/2025]

Susie Bayarri sessions

• Susie Bayarri: la reina del Bayes [Geòrgia Escaramís Babiano, 30/10/2025]
• A potential transition from a concentrated to a generalized HIV epidemic: the case of Madagascar [David Alonso Giménez, 27/11/2025]
• Diagnostic ability assessment of quantitative medical tests [Sara Pérez, 26/02/2026]
• A Genomic SEM Approach to Shared Heritability in Immune-Related Diseases [Xavier Farré, 26/03/2026]
• Beyond Illness-Death: Capturing Real-World Disease, Progression with Multistate Models [Guadalupe Gómez Melis, 09/04/2026]
• Anàlisi quantitatiu de xarxes sexuals egocèntriques en ITS [Miquel Saña Miralles, 30/04/2026]

CORE seminars

• Investigación avanzada en envejecimiento: el valor de las colaboraciones científicas con Atención Primaria [16/10/2024] (in Spanish)
• Ús d'estratègies de cribratge innovadores per a les infeccions de transmissió sexual [25/03/2025] (in English and Catalan)
• Investigación cualitativa en cronicidad y final de vida: el valor de las colaboraciones científicas con la Atención Primaria [08/10/2025] (in Spanish and Catalan)
• Ús i abús de la prescripció farmacològica en geriatria i salut mental: reptes i alternatives [04/03/2026] (in Catalan)

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Acronyms

IGTP: Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute
CEEISCAT: Centre for Epidemiological Studies on HIV/AIDS and STI of Catalonia
IDIAPJGol-USR-MN: Unitat de Suport a la Recerca Metropolitana Nord - IDIAP Jordi Gol
HUGTIP: Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital
LCMN: Northern Metropolitan Clinical Laboratory
ICS: Institut Català de la Salut

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