Laura Muñoz Bermejo, Ph.D.
Dr Laura is coordinator of the interdisciplinary research group (University of Extremadura and Extremadura Health System CTS053) called Social Impact and Innovation in Health (inHEALTH). Laura is Associate Professor of the Degree in Nursing at the University Centre of Mérida, University of Extremadura. At the same time, she is Deputy Director of the University Centre of Mérida, University of Extremadura.
She obtained the European Doctorate from the University of Seville, with a grade of Outstanding Cum Laude. Her doctoral thesis, entitled “Carers of the Elderly in the South-West Rural Area of the Badajoz Health Area”, initiated a line of research in her career that continues today. She has been awarded the Teaching Excellence Award of the Programme for the evaluation of the teaching activity of the teaching staff of the University of Extremadura in 2014 and 2019. She has participated as a collaborating researcher in 5 Teaching Innovation Projects, awarded by the University of Extremadura and has participated as a teacher and co-director in several advanced training courses at the University of Extremadura. She started as a member of the research group Pharmacogenomics of psychiatric diseases and later in the Health, Economy, Motricity and Education Group (HEME).
She has participated in 3 research projects, all of them related to ageing, elderly people and/or their carers. The interest in health status, functional capacity, emotional, psychosocial and family status of older people and their carers are the focus of the projects and publications.