Emiliano Albanese

Emiliano Albanese, MD, MPH, PhD, FMH: Full Professor of Public Health, Institute of Public Health (IPH), Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana; Associate Professor of Public Mental Health, and director of the WHO Collaborating Center (CC) for Mental Health Research and Training, in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva; member of the Foundation Board of the Swiss School of Public Health+.

Prof. Albanese teaches and coordinates several courses in the field of epidemiology and public mental health. In Lugano, he is responsible of several transversal modules in the USI Faculty of Biomedical Sciences (link), and of modules and courses of the Lugano Summer School of Public health, Policy, Economics and Management (link), and the Master program in Cognitive Psychology in Health Communication (link).

Prof. Albanese’s has three main, interlinked research interests: dementia, aging, and global mental health. He is first, and foremost, an epidemiologist and a fine systematic reviewer and meta-analyst, but his research and academic interests span the broad spectrum of public health, and stretch between clinical and health policy research and action.

Prof. Albanese graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1998 (Università degli Studi di Milano), obtained his license to practice in 1999, his PhD in clinical neuropsychology in 2002 (Università di Pavia), a Master in Public Health (MPH) in 2004 (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), and a full medical specialization in public health in 2005 (Università degli Studi di Milano and Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS). Prof. Albanese is a licensed physician and public health specialist in Italy, the UK, and Switzerland (FMH).

Prior to join USI in August 2018, Prof. Albanese was based in Geneva, where he held the first Swiss chair in public mental health, through an SSPH+ professorship that was awarded to him in 2013. Between 2010 and 2013 he was a senior post-doctoral researcher in the Neuroepidemiology section of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD) in the USA. Before that, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK, in the 10/66 dementia research group. Prof. Albanese began his academic career in Italy, between Milan and Rome, in the fields of clinical neuropsychology and epidemiology applied to age-related cognitive decline.

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We focus on three main areas:

1. Aging and dementia

2. Global mental health

3. COVID-19

Active projects:

1. SwissDEM (SNSF)
2. Corona Immunitas (SSPH+ and FOPH)
3. Doc.ch (Global Mental Health)
4. Contagion (SNSF Agora)
5. Free from fear (SNSF Agora)
6. Foresight (SNSF NRP-74)
7. iSupport
8. RISE
9. USI-ID 
10. SSPH+