Joaquín Cayón de las Cuevas
- Director of the Research Group on Health Law & Bioethics
- joaquin.cayon@unican.es
- 0000-0002-1027-9717
Joaquin Cayon-De Las Cuevas lives in Santander, Spain, and currently serves as director of the Research Group on Health Law and Bioethics at IDIVAL, and associate professor of health law at the University of Cantabria. He holds a PhD in Law with a doctoral thesis on the provision of healthcare according to consumer law.
He is combining his academic activities with the legal advice as head of the Legal Advisory Service at the Health Ministry of the Government of Cantabria. Is former Secretary General (2017-2023) and former Vice President (2023-2025) of the European Association of Health Law. Since 2015 he serves as President of the Executive Board of the Ibero-American Health Law Network.
Has an international expertise in lecturing, networking, and researching on health law issues, taking into account a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. Long teaching and research experience with a wide list of publications (books, chapters and peer-reviewed articles) and oral presentations as a guest lecturer and speaker in 20+ countries and 60+ universities located in Europe, North America and Latin America. Also has an extensive practical experience in preparing drafts on legal rules regarding healthcare issues for different countries. He is also member of the editorial board of different Spanish, Italian, Brazilian and Polish academic health journals.
He has been appointed as an expert by the Council of Europe in the HELP program in relation to the European Convention on Human Rights (2016 and 2019) and has also been selected as an expert for the Project ‘Human Rights Protection in Biomedicine’ for analysing Armenian legislation in the field of Biomedicine (since 2021). Has also been investigator in competitive research projects funded by the WHO, European Commission, HADEA and the Spanish Ministry of Digital Transformation
His research activities are focused on both European health law and global health law topics such as patients’ rights, waiting lists, reproductive technologies, Artificial Intelligence, health data, and neuro-rights, cross- border healthcare, and organ transplantation.
He is combining his academic activities with the legal advice as head of the Legal Advisory Service at the Health Ministry of the Government of Cantabria. Is former Secretary General (2017-2023) and former Vice President (2023-2025) of the European Association of Health Law. Since 2015 he serves as President of the Executive Board of the Ibero-American Health Law Network.
Has an international expertise in lecturing, networking, and researching on health law issues, taking into account a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. Long teaching and research experience with a wide list of publications (books, chapters and peer-reviewed articles) and oral presentations as a guest lecturer and speaker in 20+ countries and 60+ universities located in Europe, North America and Latin America. Also has an extensive practical experience in preparing drafts on legal rules regarding healthcare issues for different countries. He is also member of the editorial board of different Spanish, Italian, Brazilian and Polish academic health journals.
He has been appointed as an expert by the Council of Europe in the HELP program in relation to the European Convention on Human Rights (2016 and 2019) and has also been selected as an expert for the Project ‘Human Rights Protection in Biomedicine’ for analysing Armenian legislation in the field of Biomedicine (since 2021). Has also been investigator in competitive research projects funded by the WHO, European Commission, HADEA and the Spanish Ministry of Digital Transformation
His research activities are focused on both European health law and global health law topics such as patients’ rights, waiting lists, reproductive technologies, Artificial Intelligence, health data, and neuro-rights, cross- border healthcare, and organ transplantation.