Joan Puig-Barberà is a family physician, Doctor of Medicine, and Master in Public Health. In 2015, he completed his formative stage at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Between 2009 and 2017, he was a senior researcher in the Vaccine Research Area of the Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research of the Valencian Community (FISABIO – Public Health). He has conducted studies on the effectiveness of various influenza vaccines, MF59, virosomal and intradermal chickenpox, epidemiological incidence of pertussis and zoster in adults, in addition to clinical trials on papilloma virus, meningococcal B virus, herpes simplex virus, hepatitis B and herpes zoster vaccines. In 2010 and 2012 he set up, and was the principal investigator of, the Valencia Hospital Network for the Active Surveillance of Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses and the Global Hospital Influenza Surveillance Network. Before retiring in 2017, he launched and coordinated in 2016-2017 the first stage of the DRIVE IMI project consortium. He has worked as a reviewer, adviser, and consultant and is a collaborator of the FISABIO Vaccine Research Area. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.