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Prof. Walter Ricciardi

Full Professor and Director
Institure of Hygiene and Public Health-Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Largo Francesco Vito 1, Rome
 

Brief Biography:


Walter Ricciardi is Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome where he is also Director of the Department of Public Health, Deputy Head (2010 - 2014) of the Faculty of Medicine "A. Gemelli" and Director of the local School of Public Health.
In 1999 he has been appointed Member with distinction of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom and in 2002 Fellow of the same organisation. He has served as President of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) in the years 2003-2004 and as Coordinator of the Committee of Past Presidents of EUPHA from 2005 to 2009. He has been Chairman of the Italian Faculty of Public Health in the years 2004-2006 Secretary General of the Italian Society of Hygiene Preventive Medicine and Public Health in the years 2007-2008.
In 2009 he has been appointed Member of the Board of the National Board of Medical Examiners of the United States of America and in 2010 he has been elected President of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) 2010-2014.
He is an external reviewer of research programmes for the French, Dutch and Norvegian National Research Council and since 2002 is an External Examiner for the PhD programmes of the University of London. He manages several undergraduate and postgraduate teaching activities. Among them a Master of Science programme and International Courses in Epidemiology. In Italy he has been sitting in the Higher Health Council of the Ministry of Health in the years 2003-2006 and is currently member of the National Committee for the Evaluation of the Italian National Health Service and of the National Committee for Vaccinations.
In 2010 the Minister of Health of Italy has appointed him in the Higher Health Council where he chairs the Public Health Section.
He is Editor of the European Journal of Public Health, of the Oxford  Handbook of Public Health Practice and Founding Editor of the Italian Journal of Public Health.
His current research work is mainly in the field of Applied Epidemiology, Health Services Research, Health Services Management and Public Health Genomics.
He has published more than 300 papers mostly in peer reviewed  scientific journals and 6 teaching books.

 

Academic positions:


Walter Ricciardi is Full Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome where he is also Director of the Department of Public Health, Deputy Head (2010 - 2014) of the Faculty of Medicine "A. Gemelli" and Director of the local School of Public Health.

 

Research interests:


Applied Epidemiology, Health Services Research, Health Services Management and Public Health Genomics.

 

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