Health named three commandments and a singular place of Public Health

The Department of Health has resolved the specific competition called to fill three command positions and one singular position within the Secretariat of Public Health. This is done through Resolution SLT/4039/2026, of October 29, published in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat de Catalunya (DOGC) no. 9790, of November 9, 2026, in the Positions and Personnel section, with the reference CVE-DOGC-A-26309036-2026.

The reference call is SA/007/26, approved by Resolution SLT/2167/2026, of June 12, published in the DOGC no. 9698, of July 2, 2026. According to the text of the resolution, the required requirements and specifications have been met, and the appointment is made in accordance with the proposal of the corresponding Board of Merit and Capabilities. The resolution was signed by the secretary general of the department, Narcís Pérez de Puig, by delegation of Resolution SLT/304/2023, of February 6 (DOGC no. 8851, of February 9, 2023).

The four appointments

The annex of the resolution identifies four positions, numbered from SA/007/26-1 to SA/007/26-4, all assigned to the Secretariat of Public Health, and assigns a holder to each:

• Laura Gavaldà Mestre, to position SA/007/26-1, corresponding to the Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Service and Specific Programs.
• Ariadna Rovira Faixa, to position SA/007/26-2, as coordinator of Epidemiological Surveillance and Public Health Emergency Response in Barcelona South.
• Tomàs Maria Pérez Porcuna, to position SA/007/26-3, heading the Epidemiological Surveillance and Public Health Emergency Response Service in Barcelona South.
• Eva Borràs López, to position SA/007/26-4, in the Epidemiological Surveillance and Public Health Emergency Response Service in Vallès Occidental and Vallès Oriental.

The call explicitly distinguished between three command positions and one singular position, and the annex details the four designations with their numerical identification within the competition.

Epidemiological surveillance and territory

Three of the four destinations are located within the scope of epidemiological surveillance and public health emergency response, which is the territorial structure that supports the detection and control of outbreaks. Two of these positions cover Barcelona South, one as coordination and the other as head of the service, while the third extends to Vallès Occidental and Vallès Oriental.

The fourth appointment falls to the Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Service and Specific Programs, a program area that completes the technical profile of the three remaining territorial positions. All four organically depend on the same management unit, the Secretariat of Public Health.

Applied regulations and appeals processes

The resolution is framed within Legislative Decree 1/1997, of October 31, which approves the recast into a single text of the precepts of certain legal texts in force in Catalonia regarding public service, and Decree 123/1997, of May 13, which approves the General Regulation for the provision of jobs and professional promotion of civil servants of the Administration of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

The text indicates that the resolution exhausts the administrative route. Against it, interested parties may optionally file a request for reversal (recurso de reposición) before the same body that issued it within a period of one month starting from the day after its publication in the DOGC, in accordance with articles 123 and 124 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the common administrative procedure of public administrations.

Alternatively, a contentious-administrative appeal may be filed before the Contentious-Administrative Section of the corresponding Court of First Instance within a period of two months starting from the day after publication, according to article 46 of Law 29/1998, of July 13, regulating the contentious-administrative jurisdiction, without prejudice to any other appeal deemed appropriate.

Why it is relevant

The appointments close a provision process opened in June and provide stable tenure for four positions that support epidemiological surveillance in Barcelona South and Vallès, two densely populated areas where the rapid response to public health emergencies is particularly demanding. With the publication in the DOGC, the positions are formally filled and the competition, resolved.

Source: DOGC, no. 9790, of November 9, 2026, Positions and personnel (official reference: CVE-DOGC-A-26309036-2026).