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C38.CU6.10

Climate sensitive diseases in a changing environment: a one-health approach

  • Reference person
    Milena
    Maule
    milena.maule@unito.it
  • Host University/Institute
    University of Turin
  • Internship
    N
  • Research Keywords
    One Health
    Emerging infectious diseases
    Environmental changes
  • Reference ERCs
    LS7_9 P
    LS8_5 B
    SH7_6 E
  • Reference SDGs
    GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-being
    GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
    GOAL 13: Climate Action
  • Co-Supervisor

Description

Suggested skills:

Multidisciplinary attitude, basic knowledge in quantitative research (biostatistics, epidemiology, statistical softwares), interest in environmental determinants of human health, one health approach and epidemiology of vector borne diseases, teamwork, willingness to learn and acquire new skills.

Research team and environment

The research team includes a multidisciplinary group working on environmental, social, life-course and molecular epidemiology and includes, among others, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, computer scientists and molecular biologists. The team is based at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit of the Department of Medical Science (DMS) of the University of Turin. DMS is a large multi-disciplinary department with broad research interests, encompassing 16 medical disciplines, including epidemiology. The DMS has been ranked by the Minister of Education, University and Research (MIUR) as one of the Department of Excellence, and is an ideal place to carry out multidisciplinary projects thanks to the presence of shared facilities and collaborations among scientific domains, within the department and the whole University, such as the Competence Centre for Scientific Computing (https://c3s.Unito.It/). The research team is involved in several other collaborations, such as with the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale and the HPC for biomed and AI laboratory in ICxT of the Department of Computer Sciences of the University of Turin, and is a member of the Italian Network for Environmental Health. Potential data will be available at the Regional level (Healthcare System and Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale), National level (Ministry of Health and Istituto Superiore di Sanità) and European level (European Center for Disease Control and prevention). Examples of sources of environmental data of potential interest are the Copernicus Land Monitoring Centre database and environmental monitoring stations.