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      Dr Mariachiara Di Cesare

      PhD
      ROLE: Senior Lecturer in Public Health
      SCHOOL: Science & Technology
      DEPARTMENT: Natural Sciences
      EMAIL: C.Dicesare@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        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). 


        Languages Spoken

        English, Spanish, Italian

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        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

         

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Publication Feed

        The contributions of risk factor trends to cardiometabolic mortality decline in 26 industrialized countries

        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

        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

        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

        Student-generated multiple-choice pre-exam questions: an effective tool for participatory learning in a blended classroom

        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)

        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

        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)

        Trends in obesity and diabetes across Africa from 1980 to 2014: an analysis of pooled population-based studies

        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

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

         The Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard - Health of the Public 2040 Award (2017-2019)

      • Engagement &
        Impact

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