Annalisa Quattrocchi is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, the Associate Head of the Department of Primary Care and Population Health, and the Programme Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Public Health (MPH) in Disasters (EMJM PHID) at the University of Nicosia Medical School.
Dr Quattrocchi holds a BSc (with Honors) in Biological Sciences from University of Catania (Italy), a MSc (with Honors) in Human Biology from University of Catania (Italy), a PhD in Translational Biomedicine from University of Catania (Italy), and the EPIET (European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training) diploma from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden).
Her research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, from surveillance to risk analysis for infection prevention and control, also in light of the One Health framework, addressing the complex interactions between climate change, disease dynamics, and epidemiological monitoring. Furthermore, Dr Quattrocchi is interested in the field of cancer epidemiology, social determinants of health, nutritional epidemiology and early life exposure on health outcomes, with particular focus on the development of chronic diseases in adult life.