Oriol Mitjà
Born 23 June 1980
Oriol Mitjà Villar is a medical researcher specializing in strategies to combat infectious diseases linked to poverty. He studied Medicine and earned his doctorate at the University of Barcelona. His research programme has focused on developing diagnostic and therapeutic tools for neglected tropical diseases and sexually transmitted infections.
He is currently a Consolidator Grant holder of the European Research Council at the Hospital Germans Trias in Badalona, head of the research unit at the Lihir Medical Centre in Papua New Guinea, and an adviser to the World Health Organization. He has authored numerous research articles that have earned international recognition and led to new efforts to eradicate yaws, which, if successful, would be only the second human disease ever eradicated.
In 2013 he received the Princess of Girona Foundation Award, in 2017 the Català de l'Any award, and in 2019 the European Research Council Starting Grant. In 2021 he published *A cor obert* (*Open Heart*), which was a great success.
Books by Oriol Mitjà in order
Books by Oriol Mitjà in the order they were published, from A Cor Obert (2021) to Donde Nace La Luz (2026).
