Full Professor of Quantitative Methods in Economics and Management at the University of Las Palmas de GC. Research in Health Economics. Leader of research projects in the National R & D Plan and EU programmes. 6 research periods of recognised by the National Evaluation Commission (1983-2018). President of the Association of Health Economics (2004-2006) and of the Public Health Economics Section of the European Public Health Association, EUPHA (2011-2012). President of SESPAS (Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Administration) between 2015 and 2017. Decorated with the Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of Health. Member of the Interdisciplinary Working Group COVID of the Ministry of Science and Innovation and of the external scientific committees COVID of the Canary Islands and Asturias.