Diana Gil González is Senior Lecturer of Preventive Medicine and Public Health in the Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Alicante. She has been teaching at the University of Alicante from 1998 to the present, mainly in the Nursing, Social Work and Nutrition Degrees, and in the postgraduate degrees linked to the Faculty of Health Sciences. In 2015 she held the position of Vice-Dean for Research, Postgraduate Studies and Internationalisation in the Faculty of Health Sciences. From 2016 to 2020 she held the academic position of Director of the Social Responsibility Secretariat at the Vice-Rectorate for Social Responsibility, Inclusion and Equality. From 2017 to 2020 she was Director of the Chair of Roma Culture at the University of Alicante, a project funded by the Department of Equality and Inclusive Policies of the Generalitat Valenciana.

She holds a BA and PhD in Sociology and a Master's Degree in Public Health. Her areas of specialisation as a teacher and researcher are social inequalities and their impact on health, the study of social discrimination, especially gender, ethnic and migratory discrimination, the analysis of public policies, social and political epidemiology and global health and development cooperation. In recognition of his research and knowledge transfer, he has been awarded 4 sexenios. He has published 70 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He has more than 80 communications presented at national and international conferences. He has participated in more than 52 research and knowledge transfer projects at regional, national and European level. She has led the University of Alicante's Roma Health Survey project, funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality.

Collaborator of the Observatory of Women's Health of the Spanish Ministry of Health, and member of the CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health and the Spanish Society of Epidemiology. Since 2011, she has participated in different advisory and research projects on equity and health through the WHO Collaborating Centre on Social Inclusion and Health at the University of Alicante. In the last decade she has been an evaluator of research projects for ANECA and other regional agencies. She has been a member of the editorial team of the journal Global Health Action from 2015 to 2017.