Message from the Director

I would like to welcome you to the Fundació Privada per a la Recerca i Docència Sant Joan de Déu (Sant Joan de Déu Research Foundation), an entity created in 2002 to provide a framework for the research activity that is carried out, both in the biomedical and social fields, at the SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital in Esplugues, at Parc Sanitari de Sant Boi de LLobregat and at other healthcare centres of the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God - Aragon-San Rafael Province.

The raison d'être of the Foundation is to contribute to the improvement of people's health and welfare by promoting, supporting and coordinating research and innovation. We strive to achieve efficiency and to strengthen our networking, always bearing closely in mind our institutional values and our ethical commitment.

The Fundació’s research area is organised around our Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, a research area in general medicine and a social research area, of which you can find more information on this website. Our research covers seven areas of knowledge, mainly in the fields of maternal and children's health and mental health. There are also groups working on other fields, notably including that of socially vulnerable populations.

On this website you will find information about the activities we carry out to raise awareness of certain diseases, as well as all the actions we promote to find the support of all those who, like us, are convinced that through the generation of new knowledge we will be able to achieve improvements in people's health.

I would like to end this welcome by encouraging you to become better acquainted with the Fundació and to actively cooperate with us. We would also like to thank you for the support that many of you are already entrusting to us.

Emili Bargalló
Director of Fundació Privada per a la Recerca i Docència Sant Joan de Déu
ebargallo(ELIMINAR)@fsjd.org