Lamberto Manzoli

Education

• 2019: Mandatory Course for Italian Heatlhcare Agencies CEO, organized by the Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy
• 2003-2004: Master of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health; GPA 3.78/4.00
• 1998-2001: Degree of specialist with honors at the graduate School in Public Health, Epidemiology and Hygiene at the University of Bologna, Italy
• 1997: Graduation with honors in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bologna, Italy

  Professional positions - Academics

• Feb 2025: Full professor, in sharing, of Epidemiology, Public Health, Healthcare Management and Hygiene at the University of Ferrara
• Apr 2023-May 2023: Visiting professor at the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia
• Since Nov 2022: Director of the School of Public Health of the University of Bologna
• Since Nov 2021: Full professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Public Health, Healthcare Management and Hygiene at the University of Bologna
• Jul 2020-Oct 2021: Director of the Section and School of Public Health of the University of Ferrara
• Nov 2019-Oct 2021: Director of the Department of Medical Sciences and Member of the Academic Senate, University of Ferrara
• May 2018-Oct 2021: Director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology, University of Ferrara
• March 2018-Oct 2021: Deputy Rector of the University of Ferrara, for the relationships with the National Healthcare System
• Dec 2016-Oct 2019: Vice-director of the Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara
• Nov 2016-Oct 2021: Full professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Public Health, Healthcare Management and Hygiene at the University of Ferrara
• 2013-2017: Director of the Unit "Epidemiology and Management of Aging, and Healthiness of Indoor Environment" of the Foundation "Università G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
• 2006-2016: Associate professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Public Health, Healthcare Management and Hygiene at the University of Chieti-Pescara
• 2002-2006: Assistant professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Public Health, Healthcare Management and Hygiene at the University of Chieti-Pescara
• Sep-Dec 2001: Visiting researcher at the Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care of Jefferson University in Philadelphia, USA

  Main positions and consultancies - Other

• SinceMarch 25: Member of the Steering Committee of the Section of Epidemiology of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA).
• Since July 2020: Included in the National list of candidates at the role of General Director of the Institutions of the Italian Healthcare System.
• From Oct 2018 to Oct 2021: Director of the Program "Methodological support for the evaluation of the efficiency, quality and safety of healthcare services" at the Academic Hospital of Ferrara
• From Apr 2006 to Nov 2020: Head of the sections of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, EBM, and Health Services Quality Assessment of the Regional Healthcare Agency of Abruzzo, Italy
• From Jan 2015 to Jan 2021: Scientific director of the Cancer Registry of the Abruzzo Region, Italy
• From Dec 2017 to Nov 2020: Coordinator of the Rare Disease Network and Registry of the Abruzzo Region, Italy
• Since Sep 2018: Expert member of the National Committee on the National Health Outcomes Plan, at the Agency Italian Agency for the Regional Healthcare Services (AGENAS), Rome, Italy
• 2018-2025: Member of the independent board of experts (Italian OIV) evaluating all activities of the Local Health Unit of Pescara, Italy
• From 6/2013 to 11/2016: Director of the Unit "Analysis and Monitoring of Appropriateness" of the Local Health Unit of Pescara, Italy
• 2011-2018: Member of the independent board of experts (Italian OIV) evaluating all the activities of the Local Health Unit of Trieste, Italy
• Jun-Oct 2016: Consultant for the planning, evaluation and management of primary and community care for the Italian Agency for the Regional Healthcare Services (AGENAS), Rome, Italy
• 2007-2013: Coordinator of the Italian National Project of Applied Research on Oncological Screening of the Italian Ministry of Health
• 2001-2004: Consultant for the research activities of the Italian Institute of Social Medicine, Rome, Italy

  Research

  Teaching and menthoring

  Ethics committees

• Since June 2023: Epidemiologist/biostatistician of the Central Ethics Committee of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy
• 2018-2021: Epidemiologist/biostatistician of the Central Ethics Committee of the Emilia-Romagna Region (Universities and Local Health Units of Bologna, Ferrara, and Imola), Italy
• 2013-2016: Epidemiologist of the Ethics Committee of the University of Chieti-Pescara and Local Health Units of Pescara and Chieti
• 2007-2015: Chief biostatistician of the Ethics Committee of the Catholic University of Rome, Italy

• Since 1999 he has published 26 books or book chapters and 328 scientific papers in extenso, of which 297 in journals indexed in Medline / Scopus and 127 as the first or last author (total impact factor 1225; more than 11.300 citations as of May 2026; Scopus H-Index: 64; Scopus Id: 9943483200; ORCID Id: 0000-0002-8129-9344). He is coauthor of the 4^th edition of the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice, and associate editor of Frontiers in Public Health – Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention; PLoS One.
• Since 1997 he has worked on 43 research projects (in 29 of them as the P.I. or unit head), funded for a total of approximately $ 32,356,000 ($ 28,506,000 as P.I.). In 2007, his project ranked first among the 1250 projects presented at the Italian call "Young Researchers". In 2015, one of his studies won the Ferenc Bojan Award of the European Public Health Association.
• The main fields of research concern preventive medicine (especially vaccines), epidemiology of chronic, non communicable diseases (especially cardiovascular), big data analysis in healthcare, and healthcare quality assessment.

• He is currently the teacher of more than 10 courses of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Public Health, Healthcare Management and Hygiene at the University of Bologna, Italy. He teaches or has taught for more than 3 years at several Master or PhD programs at the Catholic and Sapienza Universities of Rome, University of Chieti-Pescara (15 years), University of Ferrara (5 years), and Bocconi University of Milan. Student's evaluations has constantly been excellent, with peaks at the Bocconi University during 2013 and 2014 (average grading of 9.15/10 by foreign students).
• Nov 2018-Nov 2021: Dean of the Degree in Sciences of Healthcare Professions at the University of Ferrara.
• 2018-2021: Director of Master Programs in Healthcare Professions Management at the University of Ferrara, in collaboration with Veneto or Emilia-Romagna Regions.
• Three of his post-graduate students (Maria Elena Flacco, Lorenzo Capasso and Cecilia Acuti Martellucci) obtained the National scientific qualification as associate professors within two years after the end of their residency program in Public Health. Prof. Flacco won the European Public Health Association Young Investigator award in 2015, and is currently full professor and director of the Residency Program in Public Health at the University of Ferrara. Prof. Acuti Martellucci has been hired as assistant professor of Public Health at the University of Bologna.