Area of interest

The main areas of interest are:

Health Service Research, Health Policy, Governance and Leadership (Value-based healthcare and governance of health systems and services, Health Management and organizational innovation in healthcare, Health technology Assessment, Quality of health care, Monitoring of clinical-care pathways)
Environmental surveillance and infection control (Food safety, Hospital hygiene, Prevention of nosocomial infections and infectious risk in healthcare workers)
Support for the definition of health policies in the field of personalized medicine/prevention at national and European level
Planetary health and research on environment and health
Vaccine hesitancy and vaccination strategies
Epidemiology and prevention of chronic diseases (cancer and cardiovascular diseases in particular)
Meta-search (research on how research is conducted and interpreted)

There are numerous national and international research projects coordinated and participated by the professors of the Section.