Núria Pedrós Barnils
Núria Pedrós Barnils is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Prevention and Health Promotion at Bremen University. She has a background in Biosystems Engineering, Public Health, and Migration Studies. Currently, she is teaching a seminar on Global Health and a seminar on intersectionality theory. Her research, framed within the theory of intersectionality, focuses on understanding, on the one hand, the population most at risk of not accessing healthcare services and, on the other hand, the underlying mechanisms explaining these health inequalities.
Research interests:
- Inequalities in access to healthcare services
- Intersectionality theory, specifically quantitative intersectional methodologies
- Complex modelling, machine learning
Current teaching:
Global health inequalities (Bachelor of Public Health)
Intersectionality, inequalities, and bullshit (Master Health Promotion and Prevention)
Education:
MA in Migration Studies (2021). Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)
MSc in Public Health (2018). Umeå University (Sweden)
BSc in Biosystems Engineering (2015). Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain)
Work experience:
April 2020 – April 2021: Research project coordinator at the Computational Biology and Complex Systems group, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain)
September 2019 – June 2021: Physics Associate Professor, Physics Department, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain)
Since February 2017: Project coordinator in Lebanon, Senegal, and Catalonia. NGO ALKARIA, Barcelona (Spain)
February 2012 – June 2015: Research assistant at the Computational Biology and Complex Systems group, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain)
- Fernandez, M* and Pedrós Barnils, N* (2023). Integrative or segregative refugee hosting spaces, a matter of human rights. Compàs d’amalgama. doi: 10.1344/Compas.2023.7.42454.43-48
- Pan, C., Barnils, N. P., Freye, M., Reinschluessel, A., Muellmann, S., Jürgens, D., … Gerhardus, A. (2023, June 2). Developing and Assessing Digital Public Health Interventions: A Digital Public Health Framework (DigiPHrame). doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/UB3W4
- Pedrós Barnils N and Schüz B (2022). The “grey” digital divide in older adults during COVID-19 in Germany: Who is most at risk? [F1000Research 2022, 11:1322 (poster). DOI: 10.7490/f1000research.1119209.1
- Català Sabaté, M., Cardona Iglesias, P. J., Prats Soler, C., A... & Pedros, N. (2021). Analysis and prediction of COVID-19 for EU-EFTA-UK and other countries. Daily Report; 203.
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Eurenius, E., & Gustafsson, P. E. (2020). Self-rated health inequalities in the intersection of gender, social class and regional development in Spain: exploring contributions of material and psychosocial factors. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19, 1-14.
- Reports “Monitoring the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic in different countries and regions of the Global South” (2020). Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Available: https://biocomsc.upc.edu/en/covid-19/development-cooperation
*Shared first authorship
CONFERENCES
Pedrós Barnils, N., Schüz, B. (2023). Inequities in breast cancer screening utilisation in Spain - Using decision trees to identify intersections. Population Medicine, 5(Supplement), A1476. https://doi.org/10.18332/popmed/163755
Pedrós Barnils, N., Pan, C., Reinschluessel, A. V., Freye, M., Muellmann, S. (2023). Insights into challenges of health interventions going digital - a perspective from human-computer interaction, law and sociology. Population Medicine, 5(Supplement), A652. https://doi.org/10.18332/popmed/165472
Maaß, L., Freye, M., Pedrós Barnils, N., Pan, C. (2023). How to achieve effective interdisciplinarity in digital public health practice. Population Medicine, 5(Supplement), A646. https://doi.org/10.18332/popmed/165268
Pedrós Barnils, N. Covid-19 impacts on unemployment on the migration-gender intersections in Spain, a multilevel study: Núria Pedrós Barnils, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 32, Issue Supplement_3, October 2022, ckac129.315, doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac129.315
Barnils NP, Schüz B. The “grey” digital divide in older adults during COVID-19 in Germany: Who is most at risk? Núria Pedrós Barnils. Eur J Public Health. 2022 Oct 25;32(Suppl 3): ckac130.059. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckac130.059. PMCID: PMC9593553.
Pedros, N. Fernandez, M. (2017) Water, social system and collective spaces in the Azraq refugee camp (Jordan) and the informal settlement of Terbol (Lebanon). Paper presented at the VII University and Development Cooperation Congress, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid.
AWARDS
2021 UPC Award for Social Commitment, in the modality Cooperation for the project “Monitoring the evolution of covid-19 pandemic in different countries and regions of the Global South”. Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain)
Third most outstanding Master’s Thesis during the 2021 Promotion. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain)
Best student in the BSc in Biological Systems Engineering 2015 Promotion. Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain)