# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oriol-mitja-villar
# Generated: 2026-09-02T22:45:35.281Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oriol-mitja-villar"
name: "Oriol Mitjà Villar"
slug: "oriol-mitja-villar"
description: "Oriol Mitjà i Villar is a Catalan researcher and consultant physician in internal medicine and infectious diseases with expertise in poverty-related tropical diseases. He has conducted research at the Lihir Medical Centre in Papua New Guinea since 2010 on new diagnostic and therapeutic tools to eradicate yaws. He was awarded the Princess of Girona Award in the scientific research category. Currently at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Mitjà is conducting research on SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and strategies to control the infection at a community level."
tagline: "Catalan researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FPdGi_Valencia_016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1980-06-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.62448
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/oriolmitja"
    handle:    "oriolmitja"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5728642/"
    handle:    "nm5728642"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%A7_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "اوريول ميتجا فيلار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriol_Mitj%C3%A0_i_Villar"
    title: "Oriol Mitjà i Villar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriol_Mitj%C3%A0"
    title: "Oriol Mitjà"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriol_Mitj%C3%A0_Villar"
    title: "Oriol Mitjà Villar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9C%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0"
    title: "Оріоль Міджа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24291756"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump