Julio C. Hernando Rodríguez is a postdoctoral researcher at the Health Impact Assessment groupat ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain. His work centres on studying and addressing health inequalities and implementing strategies for poverty eradication on a global scale, particularly, in low and middle-income countries. He is involved in the InequalRed project to analyse fiscal interventions to reduce health inequalities and mitigate economic downturns in Spain. Also, he is engaged in various projects aimed at reducing worldwide inequalities and promoting poverty eradication.
He received a Bachelor’s in Economics, a Master's in Public Health, and a PhD in Biomedicine from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2020. He held a postdoctoral position at the Unit of Occupational Medicine at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. His research focused on studying inequalities in access to sickness absence benefits among precarious employed workers, as well as exit trajectories from the Swedish labour market. He also co-led Work Package 2 of the EPHOR project, aimed at developing a harmonized Job Exposure Matrix based on indicators of employment quality from register-based cohorts across several Nordic Countries. Currently, he is an affiliated researcher at Karolinska Institutet.
Lines of research
- Social epidemiology: social determinants of health (living in poverty, social protection benefits and employment conditions).
- Cost-effectiveness of poverty eradication worldwide.
- Social protection benefits: unemployment benefits, sickness absence benefits access and use.
- Labour market participation and low employment quality (precarious employment).
- Mental health and mortality outcomes.
- Register-based cohort studies and life course methods.
Main publications
- Hernando-Rodriguez, J. C., Matilla-Santander, N., Murley, C., Blindow, K., Kvart, S., Almroth, M., ... & Bodin, T. (2023). Unequal access? Use of sickness absence benefits by precariously employed workers with common mental disorders: a register-based cohort study in Sweden. BMJ Open, 13(7), e072459. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072459
- Hernando-Rodriguez JC, Serra L, Benavides FG, Ubalde-Lopez M. Sickness absence trajectories following labour market participation patterns: a cohort study in Catalonia (Spain), 2012-2014. BMC-Public Health. 2020; 20, 1306: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09396-9
- Ubalde-Lopez M, Hernando-Rodriguez JC, Benavides FG, Serra L. Trajectories of sickness absence among salaried workers: evidence from the WORKss cohort in Catalonia (Spain), 2012-2014. BMJ Open. 2019; 9(7): e029092. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029092 (MUL and JCHR contributed equally as first co-authors).
- Palma-Vasquez, C., Carrasco, D., & Hernando-Rodriguez, J. C. (2021). Mental health of teachers who have teleworked due to COVID-19. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 11(2), 515-528. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe11020037
- Ekström, S., Hernando-Rodriguez, J. C., Andersson, N., Murley, C., Arfuch, V. M., Merritt, A. S., ... & Kull, I. (2024). Asthma Is Associated With Increased Sickness Absence Among Young Adults. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2024.04.058
- Ayala-Garcia, A., Serra, L., Hernando-Rodriguez, J. C., & Benavides, F. G. (2021). Returning to work after a sickness absence due to cancer: a cohort study of salaried workers in Catalonia (Spain). Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03368-8 (LS and JCHR contributed equally as second co-authors).
- Gunn, V., Vives, A., Zaupa, A., Hernando-Rodriguez, J. C., Julià, M., Kvart, S., ... & Bodin, T. (2022). Non-Standard Employment and Unemployment during the COVID-19 Crisis: Economic and Health Findings from a Six-Country Survey Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(10), 5865. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19105865
- Matilla-Santander, N., Matthews, A. A., Gunn, V., Muntaner, C., Kreshpaj, B., Wegman, D. H., Sánchez-Martínez N., Hernando-Rodríguez, J.C., … & Bodin, T. (2023). Causal effect of shifting from precarious to standard employment on all-cause mortality in Sweden: an emulation of a target trial. J Epidemiol Community Health, 77(11), 736-743. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2023-220734
