Helena De Sola Perea
PhD in Health Sciences (2020), sociologist by training at the University of Granada (2011). Since 2015, she has been dedicated to research into the biopsychosocial aspects of chronic pain, as part of the multidisciplinary team of the Pain Observatory.
Her doctoral thesis addresses various aspects and consequences of the use of opioid treatment in people with chronic pain in recent years. Using different types of methodologies, she analyses the prevalence of the use of opioid treatments in patients with chronic pain and the evolution of mortality in Spain related to the use of opioids. In addition, the thesis analyses the point of view of the general Spanish population on opioid treatment for chronic pain. Finally, through the use of qualitative methodology, she gives a voice to patients who take opioids to treat their pain.
Her research career has led her to publish 25 scientific articles, she has participated in different national projects, as well as in scientific congresses and conferences. Member of the organizing committee of the “Community Action for the reduction of social inequalities in health” Conference in Cadiz. She belongs to the CTS-991 Research Groups of Social and Clinical Epidemiology (Andalusian Research Plan. Junta de Andalucía) and to the consolidated group (IN-CO-13) of the Research and Innovation Institute of Cadiz (INIBiCA).
In the teaching field, she is a professor of Biostatistics in the Nursing Degree and of the Occupational Health subject in the Degree in Human Resources and RRLL at the University of Cadiz. She has also been a professor of the subject "Health, Public and Community Health" in the Master's Degree in Epidemiology and Public Health and a collaborator of the University Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Intervention in Gender Violence, at the International University of Valencia.