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.

The CORE Program operates as a multidisciplinary network of research groups united by shared interests and resources related to population-based research. Located on the Can Ruti Campus, it forms a key component of IGTP's core scientific structure

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

2024 highlights

Since its launch in 2024, the CORE Program has focused on building a solid and collaborative structure. In June, the first CORE Scientific Workshop was held, leading to the creation of three working groups: Organisation of Resources, Training and Teaching, and Communication.

Throughout the year, the program organised three themed seminars and continued the successful STD Sessions format with five new editions. In parallel, a new training initiative, the "Douglas Altman Sessions in Biostatistics", was launched, with two sessions held in 2024 and a full series of eight planned for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Preparations also began for the first CORE Scientific Day, scheduled for June 2025. A scientific committee made up of program members was established to coordinate the event, which will bring together participants across six cross-cutting interest groups to explore synergies, foster collaboration, and define concrete actions for the 2025-2026 period.

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]

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]

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)

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Acronyms

IGTP: Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute
CEEISCAT: Centre for Epidemiological Studies on HIV/AIDS and STI of Catalonia
USRMN-IDIAPJGol: 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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