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Maria Jose López Medina, has a PhD in Public Health and Methodology of Biomedical Research and a degree in Environmental Sciences. She is currently a senior researcher at the Evaluation and Intervention Methods Service of the Public Health Agency of Barcelona. She is also the Head of the research group of Evaluation of Public Health Programs and Policies from the Biomedical Research Centre Network for Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP) as well as the head of the Evaluation of Public Health Programs and Policies research group from the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR). She has coordinated different national and international projects related with tobacco control. Secondhand smoke exposure assessment is one of her main areas of research, with more than 70 scientific papers published. She is also teacher of “Evaluation of Public Health programs and policies” at the Master of Public Health of the University Pompeu Fabra, and associated editor of the Spanish scientific journal Gaceta Sanitaria.

Xavier Continente, BSc Pharmacy degree, MPH, PhD, is a researcher at the Evaluation and Intervention Methods Service of the Public Health Agency, Barcelona. He is member of the Biomedical Research Centre Network for Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), the Evaluation of Public Health Programs and Policies research group from the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) and the Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau). His research work has been mainly focused on health risk factors in adolescents and has also been involved in national and international projects related to second-hand smoke exposure assessment.

Gabriel León, Bsc in Economics, is project manager and project assistant at ASPB. Gabriel has previous experience in a number of EC-funded projects (EC FP7, SAMCO-CHAFEA) and has been managing financial aspects of research activities related to public health at national and local level for the last 14 years (Spanish Public Research Entity, National Plan on Drugs, Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants).

Elisabet Henderson, BSc Human Biology (2016) and MPH (2018) from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, is a pre-doctoral researcher at the Evaluation and Intervention Methods Service of the Public Health Agency of Barcelona, and the Biomedical Research Centre network for Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP). Elisabet has conducted research on the effects of traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) exposure and is currently researching secondhand tobacco smoke exposures in outdoor settings in Europe.

Luis Alejandro, Rodríguez Guerrero, bachelor degree in human nutrition (2012) and MPH (2017) from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, is a junior researcher at the Evaluation and Intervention Methods Service of the Public Health Agency of Barcelona. Luis Alejandro has conducted research on HPV test predictor of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 or worse in Catalan underscreening women at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO).

Laura López, Degree in Physiotherapy (2011) and Master in Public Health (2017). Her previous work has focused on the prevention of childhood obesity, the prevention of drugs use in adolescents at risk and determinants of occupational health. Currently, she is carrying out field work in a national study on second and third-hand smoke exposure in children in Barcelona and Spain with a scholarship at the Evaluation and Intervention Methods Service of the Public Health Agency of Barcelona.