Stefania Boccia

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ABOUT STEFANIA BOCCIA

Stefania Boccia is Full professor of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) in Rome. Director of the Department of Life Sciences and Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine at UCSC.Deputy Director of Policlinico “A.Gemelli” hospital IRCCS since 2022.Co-Director of the Research Facility Epidemiology and Biostatistics at G-Step, FPG IRCCS. Affiliated to the Meta Research Center at Stanford University, USA.Included in the rankings of the world’s top 2% scientists, developed by Stanford, where she ranks fourth among Italian public health researchers.Her main research interests concern personalized medicine and healthcare policies about prevention, in Italy and internationally. Author and co-author of 346 scientific publications; H index (Scopus): 60; no. citations= 16•••••25, October).From 20••••23 she was Deputy President of the Ethical Committee of IRCCS FPG.In 2022, 2024, 2025: Visiting Professor at Thomas Jefferson University-College of Population Health (EU funded project ICM Erasmus +).2021-22: Italian Expert Representative for the Italian Ministry of Health (DG Prevention) for the EU project “1 Million Genomes”2021-24: President of the Woman Health Center for Digital and Personalized Medicine of UCSC.2018-24: President of the European Public Health epidemiology Section of the European Public Health Association.In 2016 Adjunct Professor at the Mount Sinai Medical School, New York.2023-on: Member of the Gender Equality Plan team of the UCSC2023-24: Member of the Sub-group on Cancer of the Public Health Expert Group (European Commission, DG Health and Food Safety, B1 Cancer, Health in all policies-DG Research & Innovation, D1 Combatting Diseases)2022-on: Member of the ECICC - European Commission Initiative on Colorectal Cancer- Expert Pool, EC2021-24: Alternate in the Mission Board Sub-group “Cancer” and in the “Steering Group on Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Management of Non-Communicable Diseases”, European Commission (EC).Associate Editor of European Journal of Public Health, European Journal of Epidemiology. Advisory Board Member of the Lancet Regional Health- Europe. Since 2006 she has been coordinator of 4 EU funded projects (plus 14 as partner), and 14 national (plus 6 as partner).