ROMA VINCIT!

Dr. Mari Carmen Davó Blanes (MPhil, PhD) is Public Health Senior Lecturer at the University of Alicante. She has leaded and collaborated in several research projects on school health promotion, school feeding policy and gender violence and has authored and co-authored a wide range of papers on these topic. She was member of the European Project “Policies on Marketing food and beverages to children” (POLMARK) she is currently participating in the PositivMasc European Project: Masculinities and violence against women among young people: Identifying discourses and developing strategies for change using a mixed method approach Positive masculinity. She is currently coordinating the Public Health University Professors Forum for the improvement of public health curriculum in Spanish universities too ((https://web.ua.es/es/foro-profesorado-salud-publica/foro-de-profesorado-universitario-de-salud-publica.html) and heads the Food and Nutrition cabinet of the University of Universiti of Alicante (https://fcsalud.ua.es/es/alinua/quienes-somos.html)

Vanesa Pérez Martínez is PhD Student in Health Sciences, Psychology Bachelor and Master in Criminological and Victimological Intervention. Her academic background is mainly focused on Gender Violence and Dating Violence, intrafamily violence intervention, forensic criminology and violence intervention programs. She collaborated in several neuropsychological studies and she worked as a starting researcher in Lights4Violence. She is working with a predoctoral fellowship in another project related to Dating Violenece and Gender Violence in adolescents.

Carmen Vives-Cases is Public Health Professor at the Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science at the University of Alicante (UA) since 2001. She is a sociologist (Bachelor 1998 and Doctor 2004) and Public Health Master (2005). She was also associated editor of Gaceta Sanitaria (the main public health journal in Spain) (2010-2016), MC Substitute [IS1206 ES] to COST Action IS1206 "Femicide across Europe" (2013-2017) and Vice-President (2012-2016) and President (2016-2018) of the Spanish Scientific Association of Epidemiology. She has directed several research projects in the areas of epidemiology of gender-based violence against women (prevalence, incidence, health consequences, as well as their social determinants and evaluation of responses from the health sector) and immigration, ethnic minorities and public health. She is coordinating the European project “Lights, Camera and Action against dating violence” (available at http://www.lights4violence.eu/) from this publication arises. She is the author of more than 100 articles published in indexed journals about this issue (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6797-5051).

Rosario Ferrer Cascales is Doctor in Psychology. Senior Lecturer of EU in the area of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment at the University of Alicante (Spain). Director of the Research Group on Health Psychology and Human Behavior. Her interest areas are focus on the development and validation of instrument of health psychology including quality of life, psychological well-being and mental health in adult and children population. She is author of a wide range of articles published in international indexed journals. She has participated as Principal Investigator in 5 European projects (PALLIARE, E-MOTION, MATE, ISTEW, LIGHT4VIOLENCE), two of them as principal investigador (PALLIARE, E-MOTION). She has also a wide experience in the organization of activities of I+D+I and she is an active researcher in a wide range of national and international Congress.

Natalia Albaladejo Blázquez is Ph.D. in Psychology. Graduate in Psychopedagogy. Master in Prevention and treatment in drug addiction. Phd hired Professor in the area of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment at the Department of Health Psychology of the University of Alicante (Spain). Member of the Research Group Psychology Applied to Health and Human Behavior of the University of Alicante. Her main research lines are: health psychology applied to school; assessment and application of intervention programs in schools; training of teachers in Emotional Education; and educative innovation. Author of different articles indexed in the Journal Citation Reports and of conferences in national and international congress. Adviser to the Teacher Training Centers in Alicante. She is an active researcher of European Commission funded Projects such as: MATE, E-MOTION and Lights4violence.