Affiliation: University of Seville

Dr. Jose Antonio Ponce is a Health Promotion professor at University of Sevilla (Spain) since 1997 and Head of Spanish Red Cross Nursing College at this University since 2013, and he is Registered Nurse, Graduate in Communication Sciences and Advertising, Master in Public Health and Doctor of Nursing Practice and Public Health. His work is primarily focused on the study of the health habits of children and adolescents and the factors that influence healthy lifestyles in these age groups. He completed his doctoral thesis about the influence of advertising on eating habits of children between 4 and 6 years old, and he has developed an important production of scientific papers in the research group "Health Promotion" of University of Seville (code CTS284), especially in the line of research about health promotion at different stages of life and all the elements of social communication (mass media and social networks) influencing nutrition habits of children and adolescents. He completed his postdoctoral studies at a research internship held at the Federal University of Pampa (Unipampa) in Riogrande do Sul (Brazil) in 2017, where he conducted important research about eating habits of the local schoolers population. Their contributions have helped to identify tools to measure the influence of media on eating habits and the consumption of alcohol and other drugs in adolescents as well as the addressing of new different addictions (such as addictions to new technologies), carrying out experimental works that allowed to identify variables that most influence the acquisition of negative health habits.