Chiara is Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Middlesex University and Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London. Chiara has a Master’s degree in Statistics, Demography, and Social Sciences and a PhD in Demography from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. Chiara is a scientist with interdisciplinary work experience in both academia and international organisations (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean). Her research in population health uses and integrates concepts, data and methods from demography, epidemiology, statistics, and social science. Her work has focused on the epidemiology and public health of obesity and undernutrition, the role of early nutrition on child development, whether, and how much, changes in metabolic risk factors have contributed to the decline in cardiovascular mortality, and the extent of within and between countries inequalities in non‐communicable diseases mortality and associated risk factors. Chiara is currently working on the dynamics of social inequalities in undernutrition and adiposity and her research is supported by the Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard award. Results of Chiara’s recent research on global trends in obesity are currently used by WHO (Global Health Observatory) as official estimates and have been used to write several WHO/UN reports and have received extended global media (Altmetric #14 in 2016 and #7 in 2017).
English, Spanish, Italian
Teaching interests: Global health; Demography; Research methods; Epidemiology
Programme leader BSc in Public Health
Contributing to the following modules:
BIO4600 – Challenges in Global Health (Module leader)
PRS4202 – Policy and Public Health Strategy (Module leader)
BIO4503 – Applied Epidemiology
BIO4500 – Environmental and Public Health
PRS4799 – Research Methodology and Dissertation
BIO4001 – Applied and theoretical approaches to Biodiversity, Evolution and Conservation sciences
BIO4630 – Health Promotion and Health Development
BIO2505 – Health Stressor
BIO2803 – Biodiversity
BIO3310 – Conservation in a Changing World
BIO2014 – Global Public Health and Epidemiology
BIO3227 – Current Topics in Biosciences
BIO3610 – Health Promotion, targets and evidence
Di Cesare, Mariachiara and Bennett, James E. and Best, Nicky and Stevens, Gretchen A. and Danaei, Goodarz and Ezzati, Majid (2013) The contributions of risk factor trends to cardiometabolic mortality decline in 26 industrialized countries. International Journal of Epidemiology, 42 (3). pp. 838-848. ISSN 0300-5771
Zhou, Bin and Bentham, James and Di Cesare, Mariachiara and Danaei, Goodarz and Hajifathalian, Kaveh and Taddei, Cristina and Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M. and Djalalinia, Shirin and Khatibzadeh, Shahab and Lugero, Charles and Peykari, Niloofar and Zhang, Wan Zhu and Bilano, Ver and Stevens, Gretchen A. and Cowan, Melanie J. and Riley, Leanne M. and Zhengming, Chen and Hambleton, Ian and Jackson, Rod T. and Kengne, Andre Pascal and Khang, Young-Ho and Laxmaiah, Avula and Liu, Jing and Malekzadeh, Reza and Neuhauser, Hannelore K. and Soric, Maroje and Starc, Gregor and Sundstrom, Johan and Woodward, Mark and Ezzati, Majid and NCD-RisC, on behalf (2018) Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1,018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants. International Journal of Epidemiology . ISSN 0300-5771
Teplitski, Max and Irani, Tracy and Krediet, Cory J. and Di Cesare, Mariachiara and Marvasi, Massimiliano (2017) Student-generated multiple-choice pre-exam questions: an effective tool for participatory learning in a blended classroom. Journal of Food Science Education . ISSN 1541-4329 (Accepted/In press)
Bentham, James and Di Cesare, Mariachiara and Bilano, Ver and Bixby, Honor and Zhou, Bin and Ezzati, Majid and NCD-RisC, Group (2017) Worldwide trends in children’s and adolescents’ body mass index, underweight, overweight and obesity, in comparison with adults, from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2,416 population-based measurement studies with 128.9 million participants. The Lancet . ISSN 0140-6736 (Published online first)
Kengne, Andre Pascal and Bentham, James and Zhou, Bin and Peer, Nasheeta and Matsha, Tandi E. and Bixby, Honor and Di Cesare, Mariachiara and Hajifathalian, Kaveh and Lu, Yuan and Taddei, Cristina and Bovet, Pascal and Kyobutungi, Catherine and Ezzati, Majid and Mbanya, Jean Claude N. and NCD-RisC, on behalf (2017) Trends in obesity and diabetes across Africa from 1980 to 2014: an analysis of pooled population-based studies. International Journal of Epidemiology, 46 (5). pp. 1421-1432. ISSN 0300-5771
The Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard - Health of the Public 2040 Award (2017-2019)