Stefano Campostrini

Stefano Campostrini is a full professor of Social Statistics at the University of Ca’ Foscari of Venice (Italy), formerly a professor at Pavia, associate professor at Padua, and research fellow at Edinburgh (Scotland). His main research interests are in the application of Statistics as support to decision-making processes, particularly concerning health and social policies and interventions. This interest has brought to the collaboration and the leading of several types of research concerning evaluation, needs analysis, information systems, health systems, health inequalities, governance, and social innovation. The international experience has regarded particularly the study and surveillance of behavioral risk factors for health, and the evaluation in health promotion. In this regard, he has collaborated with several international institutions and research centers (such as CDC in Atlanta, WHO in Geneva and Copenhagen, ILO in Turin, POHS in Adelaide, and Health Board of Singapore). He has published more than 190 scientific works and has been on the scientific committees of several international and national congresses and meetings. He is serving on the Editorial board of several national and international journals, such as Statistical Methods and Application, or International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health.