Short CV updated April 2024
Giovanna Boccuzzo has been Full Professor of Social Statistics at the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua since 1/7/2019. She served as Director of the Department of Statistical Sciences from 1/10/2019 to 30/09/2023.
She graduated in July 1991 with highest honors, and in October 1995 she was awarded a PhD in Statistics, with a doctoral thesis: "Study of disease familiarity with multivariate analysis methods."
Professional background.- December 1994 - May 2001: Researcher at the National Institute of Statistics, Department of Social Statistics. Activities: coordination of the Operational Unit "Epidemiological Surveys and Health Indicators" (1997-1999), coordination of the national project Handicap Information System (2000-2001) and the project "Indicators of Integration of Disabled Persons into Social Life" (2000), commissioned to ISTAT by the European Commission.
- June 2001 - September 2006 (on leave for managerial position from January 2002 to June 2006): First researcher, socio-demographic area, at the National Institute of Statistics. Activities: coordination of the National Handicap Information System project, funded by the Ministry of Welfare.
- January 2002 - June 2006: Statistical manager at the Observatory of Pediatric Age Pathology of the Veneto Region.
- October 2006 - March 2015: University Researcher in Social Statistics, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua.
- April 2015- June 2019: Associate Professor in Social Statistics, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua.
- January 2023 – December 2025: NRP, AGE-IT partnership "Ageing well in an ageing society": scientific officer for the University of Padua, co-leader of spoke 4 "Trajectories for active and healthy ageing (behavioral and psychological determinants)". Funding to UNIPD: €6,101,363 (https://ageit.eu/wp/)
- May 2022 – May 2025: PRIN 2020, SOcial and health Frailty as determinants of Inequality in Aging. (SOFIA), head of the Padua unit. Funding: 179,425 euros.
The research activity is mainly on two broad strands, which are intertwined in many applications: composite indicator construction and social epidemiology topics.
In more detail, the research interests are:
- Composite indicator construction methods, based on both classical and multi-criteria approaches and Partial Order Theory.
- Causal inference approaches, applied particularly to the study of the role of socio-economic and spatial variables on health and mortality differentials.
- Multivariate statistical approaches to the study of well-being and quality of life.
- Analysis and epidemiology of disability.
From a point of view of areas of research application, of particular importance is the study of indicators of frailty in the population and their evolution as a function of socio-economic and health conditions.
List of publications at this link.
Teaching:Holder of the teachings of: Sample Surveys (A.A. 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10), Statistical Information Systems (A.A. 2006-07, 2010-11), Multivariate Statistics (Biology, A.A. 2010-11), Health and Epidemiological Data Analysis (A.A. 2012-13 and 2013-14), Social Statistics (A. A. 2013-14, 2014/15), Medical Statistics and Epidemiology (Advanced) (A.A. 2015/16 and onward), Theory and Technique of Statistical Survey and Sampling (A.A. 2015/16, 2016/172017/18, 2018/19); assistant professor for courses in: Statistical Information Systems (A.A. 2007-08, 2008-09), Social Statistics (A.A. 2006-07, 2007-08), Social Statistics Advanced Course (A.A. 2006-07, 2008-09, 2010-11), Health and Epidemiological Data Analysis (A.A.2009-10), Socio-demographic Laboratory (A.A. 2010-11), Statistical Methods for Epidemiology (from A.A. 2016/17 and onward).
On leave for exclusive research activity in A.A. 2023/24.