LUIGI PALLA

First year Medical Students. All materials are in Moodle at this link:

Corso: Basic Scientific Methods 1-Medical Statistics (uniroma1.it)

Second year Medical Students. All materials are in Moodle at this link:

Corso: Preclinical scientific methods I- Medical Statistics (uniroma1.it)

I joined University of Rome La Sapienza, Dept of Public Health and Infectious Diseases at the end of 2020.
Previously, I obtained a degree in Statistical and Economic Sciences (2000) and Ph.D. in Statistical Methodology for Scientific Research from the University of Bologna (2004). After a postdoctoral appointment in statistical/mathematical genetics at Dept Mathematics, Free University Amsterdam, I worked as a statistician for the Medical Research Council at University of Cambridge, in the areas of genetic epidemiology (mainly supporting InterAct- a large European study of the effect of interaction between genes and lifestyle on the incidence of diabetes) and nutrition (dietary surveys, nutritional epidemiology). I joined London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in August 2013 as Research Fellow in Statistical Genetics. From January 2016 to October 2020 I was Assistant Professor in Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the Department of Medical Statistics and member of the Electronic Health Record Research Group at LSHTM. From October 2019 I have also held a part-time and then Visiting Associate Professor role at the University of Nagasaki School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health.
I was Director of the LSHTM Distance Learning Postgraduate Professional Development Course in Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance from 2016 to 2020. In the year 2016/2017, I was also Visiting Professor in Statistics at the University of Parma, Dept of Food and Drug Sciences.