Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

People with expertise in this area
Research interests

Simone Accordini: Associate Professor
Angela Carta: Associate Professor
Lucia Cazzoletti: Associate Professor
Francesca Locatelli: Assistant Professor
Alessandro Marcon: Associate Professor

Stefano Porru: Full Professor
Andrea Princivalle: Assistant Professor
Stefano Tardivo: Full Professor
Giuseppe Verlato: Full Professor
Maria Elisabetta Zanolin: Associate Professor

Research interests
Topic	People	Description
Application of statistical-epidemiological methods in environmental studies	Alessandro Marcon	Development of models for the assignment of estimates of exposure to environmental pollutants (Exposure assessment); Use of GIS data in exposure models; Assessment of bias related to environmental risk perception.
Socio-economic burden of asthma and COPD	Simone Accordini	Design and analysis of international cost-of-illness studies, evaluation of the determinants of the socio-economic cost (zero-inflated outcomes)
Environmental epidemiology	Alessandro Marcon	Design of epidemiological studies on the short/long-term effects of pollution; Evaluation of the effects of industrial pollution; Evaluation of the effects of exposure to air pollution and aeroallergens; Use of biomarkers.
Environmental Epidemiology	Francesca Locatelli	Design of epidemiological studies on the short/long-term effects of pollution; Evaluation of the effects of industrial pollution; Evaluation of the effects of exposure to air pollution and aeroallergens
Epidemiology of cancer and chronic-degenerative diseases	Giuseppe Verlato	Statistical models, Epidemiologic methods, Epidemiology of tumors (gastric and oesophageal cancer) and chronic-degenerative diseases (asthma, COPD, type 2 diabetes).
Epidemiology of asthma and COPD	Simone Accordini Francesca Locatelli	Design of multi-centre population-based observational studies, analyses of the socio-economic burden, analyses of the temporal trend in the prevalence and incidence, development of continuous scores for measuring asthma severity, multi-generation analyses of the effects of risk factors in different susceptibility periods
Epidemiology of asthma and COPD in the general population	Lucia Cazzoletti Alessandro Marcon Maria Elisabetta Zanolin	Design of multicentric observational studies; Evaluation of risk factors, clinical course and prognosis; Evaluation of the effectiveness of anti-asthmatic therapy; Analysis of temporal trends in prevalence/incidence; Age-Period-Cohort modeling.
Genetic epidemiology	Simone Accordini	Analyses of the association among SNPs in candidate gene regions and (non-normally distributed) continuous outcomes, multiple-testing, mediation analyses, LASSO regression, machine learning
Nutritional Epidemiology	Lucia Cazzoletti Maria Elisabetta Zanolin	Assessment of the nutritional determinants of health in the population, methods for the assessment of the food and nutrient intake in the diet
Epidemiology for the evaluation of health services	Francesca Locatelli Alessandro Marcon	Analysis of indicators derived from electronic health records; Evaluation of the performance of General Practitioners; Integrated management of chronic diseases (diabetes).
Hygiene & Preventive Medicine	Stefano Tardivo	Epidemiology & Prevention of: - chronic-degenerative diseases’ epidemiology (lung cancer and colorectal cancer screenings) - Hygiene & Infection Control - social distress related diseases - infectious diseases Environmental & Occupational Hygiene - evaluation of microbial contamination of food and contained spaces, with particular attention to critical environments (operating theaters and hospital departments for immunosuppressed patients) - Health Impact Assessment (VIS) of industrial facilities
Occupational Health and Safety	Angela Carta Stefano Porru Andrea Princivalle	Health and safety in the workplaces. Prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation for work-related disorders and injuries. Occupational risk assessment. Health surveillance for workers. Fitness for work. Environmental and biological monitoring in workplaces. Education and health and safety promotion in workplaces. Effectiveness evaluation of preventive interventions in workplaces. Quality and occupational health. Ergonomics. Industrial toxicology. Occupational epidemiology. Relationship with occupational health and compensation authorities.
Statistical methods in multi-centre and multi-generation epidemiological studies	Simone Accordini Francesca Locatelli	Multi-level regression models, multi-level mediation models for the analysis of multi-generation data, Age-Period-Cohort models
Methods in Epidemiology	Francesca Locatelli Giuseppe Verlato	Selection bias, stage migration, capture-recapture method, sensitivity and specificity of epidemiological tools, indexes of surgical quality
Medical Statistics & Epidemiology	Francesca Locatelli Maria Elisabetta Zanolin	Statistical modelling, General Epidemiology, Clinical Epidemiology