José Muñoz

Dr José Muñoz is a specialist in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He heads the International Health Department at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, one of Spain's reference centers for the diagnosis and treatment of imported tropical diseases. Dr Muñoz’s career combines clinical practice with fieldwork: he has worked as a physician and researcher in Ivory Coast, Mozambique, and several countries in Latin America, giving him firsthand insight into infectious diseases in endemic settings. As an Associate Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), much of Dr Muñoz’s work has focused on travel and emerging diseases including use of innovative technologies such as digital health and artificial intelligence, a field in which dengue and other arboviral infections play a prominent role. He has taken part in collaborative European studies aimed at improving the diagnosis of these infections. Dr Muñoz is also an Associate Professor at the University of Barc