The epidemiology, monitoring and modelling research node (EPI-MOD) is designed to collect and converge data from different sources to improve the ability to analyse and understand the epidemiology of emerging and re-emerging diseases with epidemic potential and transform this data into information for public health action. Within the Italian emerging infectious disease health arena, the EPI-MOD research node proposes actions designed around a One Health perspective by combining surveillance and operational research across sectors and disciplines. This is possible thanks to the combined commitment of the research node and node leader, the Italian Institute of Health (ISS) that hosts experts in the field of human, animal and environmental health, and its two co-leaders: the Italian network of zoo-prophylactic Institutes, in charge of aspects related to animal health end entomological surveillance, and the mathematical modellers of FBK. A unique feature of the EPI-MOD research node is indeed to bring together all the main Italian actors engaged in the production of data for infectious disease (including the main institutions responsible for human, animal and entomological surveillance) and some of the finest national expertise in state-of-the-art methods for the quantitative analysis and integration of such data. The creation of an interdisciplinary network with such a diverse set of skills will allow the research node to tackle the challenges related to emerging infectious threat with a concrete One Health approach, where the sustained interaction across different fields will be highly beneficial to both data producers and data analysts.
Partner institutions involved: AIZS - FBK - UNIPV - CNR - UNISI - UNICA - UNIPD - UNISAP - UNIMI - UNINA - UNIBO - UNICT - UNIBA - UNITO - HUNIMED - IRFMN - OPBG - UCSC - UNISR - ISCDC - FPCBM
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Antonia Ricci graduated in Veterinary Medicine in 1993 at Bologna University, and she received a Postgraduate certificate in Diagnosis and prevention of animal diseases in 1994, and a Postgraduate specialisation in Food Hygiene in 1997 at the University of Torino.
She headed until February 2018 the Food Safety Department of Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie(IZSVe), in Italy, and in March 2018 she was nominated Director of Science of IZSVe.
She heads since 1999 the National Reference Laboratory for Salmonellosis in Italy, which in 2007 was nominated OIE Reference Laboratory. From 2009 to 2018 she was member (and chair since 2015) of the Biohaz Panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Her main fields of expertise are microbiology, epidemiology and control of foodborne zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance; in these areas she has given consultancy to national and international bodies, such as the European Commission, OIE, WHO, and she leads several research projects.
Stefano Merler’s research has covered a range of scientific topics related to the epidemiology of infectious diseases, the statistical, mathematical and computational modelling of infectious diseases transmission, the evaluation of the effectiveness of intervention measures. I have carried out research on emerging infectious diseases (influenza, SARS-CoV-2), vector-borne diseases (chikungunya, yellow fever, Zika, dengue), antimicrobial resistance (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase producing), childhood diseases (morbillo, chickenpox, respiratory syncytial virus, tuberculosis), filoviruses (Zaire and Sudan ebolavirues, Marburg), sexually transmitted diseases (mpox). During the COVID-19 pandemic he served as scientific advisor for the Italian National Institute of Health, the Italian Ministry of Health, the Special Commissioner for the COVID-19 Emergency and the Italian Scientific and Technical Committee. During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic he served as scientific advisor for the Italian National Institute of Health.
Author of 176 research papers, with 156 academic papers for a cumulative JCR 2022 - Impact Factor (updated June 2023) of 1610.5 and 20 conference proceedings and book chapters; h-index: 44 (Scopus); total citations: 13164 (Scopus).
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