Institution

Edmund Mach Foundation

Based in

Italy , San Michele all'Adige (TN)

Languages

English Italian

Short Bio

Annapaola Rizzoli is a DVM, PhD working in the field of Health and Environment under the One Health perspective. Her major scientific interest and expertise is in the field of ecology, epidemiology and risk assessment of emerging parasitic and infectious diseases driven by global changes. She started her career working as researcher and project manager for the Centre for Alpine Ecology, a research institute of the Autonomous Province of Trento, that she co-founded and directed. She than moved to the Edmund Mach Foundation, where she directed the Research and Innovation Centre from 2016 to 2020 (http://cri.fmach.eu/). She currently acting as team leader of the ecohealth/applyed ecology unit. She coordinated and carried out several research projects on the impact of global changes on vector borne and zoonotic diseases emergence and control at national and international level. Her research work was supported also by competitive research funds provided by the Autonomous Province of Trento (i.e. Laboratory of Excellence in epidemiology and Modelling; www.lexem.eu) as well the European Commission ( i.e. FP6 EDEN http://www.eden-fp6project.net/ as participant; FP7 EDENext http://www.edenext.eu/ as WP leader; FP7 Eurowestnile http://www.eurowestnile.org/as Scientific coordinator; H2020 Zikalliance: https://zikalliance.tghn.org/ as participant; H2020 MOOD as WP leader; HEU BEPREP as participant; EYWA EIC Prize as participant).
She was awarded by the Italian National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor for the discipline 07/H3 Animal infectious and parasitic diseases. She is Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Parasitology, Parasites and Wildlife and invited reviewer of several journals.

Other Expertise

One Health Zoonoses Wildlife Veterinary Medicine Climate Change Parasitology Epidemiology Infectious Diseases