Fernando Rodríguez Artalejo, MD, PhD,is Professor and Chairman of the Department of

Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he

coordinates the Group of Cardiovascular and Nutritional Epidemiology of Aging GCNEA). He also directs a research group in the CIBER of Epidemiology and Public health (CIBERESP) and in the IMDEA-Food in Madrid. Up to June 2023, he has published 661 articles in scientific journals included in PUBMEB (163 in D1 journals y 342 in Q1 journals) with 30.017 citations from other authors (WOS h index=72). He has been awarded 5 sexenios de investigación 2 and 1 sexenio de transferencia. He has supervised 57 PhD Dissertations (9 in the last 5 years, and 2 additional dissertations that will likely be defended next year). Most of his supervised doctoral students have followed a successful professional career either in Academia (in Spain and abroad) or in the Public Health Administration. Following there is a short list of professionals whose development has been supported by Dr. Rodríguez Artalejo:

· José R. Banegas, Full Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

· Pilar Guallar-Castillón, Full Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

· Esther López García, Full Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

· Arthur R. Mesas, Associate Professor, University of Londrina, Londrina, Brazil

· Andreia Oliveira, Assistant Professor, University of Porto, and Institute of Public Health

in Porto, Portugal

· Terea Balboa-Castillo, Assistant Professor, Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile.

· Raúl Pérez Tasigchana. Subsecretario Nacional de Vigilancia de la Salud Pública.

Ministerio de Sanidad Ecuador

· Cristina Alonso Bouzón, Regional Advisor, Programme of Ageing. Pan-American Health

Organization/WHO, Washington, USA.

· Miguel A. Royo Bordonada, Associate Director, National School of Public Health, Madrid,

Spain.

· Dionisio Herrera Guibert, Director of TEPHINET, a program of The Task Force for Global

Health, which oversees a global network of 63 Field Epidemiology Training Programs.

His main research interest is the study of the natural history of cardiovascular disease

(CVD), frailty, and disability in older adults, as well as its determinants, including behavioral,biological and omic factors. Indeed, Dr Rodríguez Artalejo has been one of the pioneers in the study of the magnitude and distribution of CVD Spain, and its immediate risk factors (obesity, cholesterolemia, blood pressure) and his work has illuminated most of the programs to control this disease in our country in the last thirty years. Subsequently (about 15 years ago), he developed an interest in the prevention of frailty, and disability in older adults, as well as promotion of healthy aging. He is leadin g in Europe the use of systems epidemiology to integrate information from environmental factors, lifestyle, psychosocial factors, biomarker and genetic variables to disentangle its role in the development of functional limitations in older adults. Therefore, his research has allowed drafting a very complete picture of the main determinants of healthy ageing, which has served to identify interventions with potential to improve health in the old age. To conduct his research, Dr. Rodríguez Artalejo has successfully established and followed three population-based cohort of older adults in Spain (UAM cohort, Seniors-ENRICA-1 and Seniors ENRICA-2 cohorts), which have yielded over 200 manuscripts published in top quality journals in the last 10 years. He is using these three research infrastructures to collaborate and compete with the best groups in the world in this field, including researchers in Harvard University, Columbia University, UCL in London, Oxford University and the Karolinska Institute. Access to the data form these three cohort is free for the research community upon request.