Miquel Porta (
Barcelona, 1957) is a
Catalan physician,
epidemiologist and
scholar. He has promoted the integration of biological, clinical and environmental knowledge and methods in health research and teaching, which he has conducted internationally; notably, in Spain, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Harvard, Imperial College London, and several other universities in Europe, North America, Kuwait, and Brazil. Appointed by the
International Epidemiological Association (IEA)
[1] in 2008 he succeeded the Canadian epidemiologist
John M. Last as Editor of "A Dictionary of Epidemiology". In the Preface to this book he argues for an inclusive and integrative practice of the science of
epidemiology.