Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics,
Dept. of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics,
Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
http://dehems.med.uoa.gr/
Interests
- Epidemiology of infectious diseases; COVID-19, HCV, HIV, HBV, influenza, hospital acquired infections
- Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases
- Interventions for infectious diseases in key populations (people who inject drugs, prisoners, MSM)
- Serobehavioural surveys using Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS)
- Social networks
Current projects (Principal Investigator)
- A project assessing social contacts and the age mixing of the population during the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece
- A seek-test-treat community-based program for infectious diseases (HIV, HCV, HBV) among people who inject drugs in Athens (ARISTOTLE HCV-HIV)
- A seek-test-treat community-based program for infectious diseases (HIV, HCV, HBV) among people who inject drugs in Thessaloniki (ALEXANDROS)
- A project aiming to investigate the HIV and hepatitis C epidemics in the population of people who inject drugs in Greece (funded by the Partnership Agreement for the Development Framework 2014-2020)
- A project aiming to assess HIV incidence among people who inject drugs in Athens during the period following the HIV outbreak (2014-2019)
- A project assessing the injection networks of people who inject drugs in Athens
-
Working group on HIV outbreaks among people who use drugs in Europe and North America
-
Working group on the European Questionnaire on Drug Use among People living in prison (EQDP)
Other past projects
- Principal investigator of a program for screening and linkage to care for HIV, HCV, HBV & TB in a Greek prison
- Co-PI of ARISTOTLE program during the HIV outbreak among people who inject drugs in Athens, Greece
- Co-investigator in multiple projects on infectious diseases in key populations, health examination surveys etc
- Co-investigator in NIH funded projects on HIV among key populations
- President (2019-2020), Vice-President (2017-2018) and Secretary (2013-2016) of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (http://www.iscb.info/)
- Member of the Steering Committee for the implementation of the Hellenic National Plan for hepatitis C elimination
- Member of the Advisory Group for the development of the Hellenic National Plan for hepatitis C elimination
- Chair of the working group on people who inject drugs and prisoners for the National Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS
- Biostatistics in undergraduate students (Medical School, School of Dentistry, Department of Biology)
- Epidemiology in undergraduate students (Medical School)
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases in postgraduate students
- Seminars in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Trials for professionals
- PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (2005)
- MSc in Biometry, University of Reading, UK (1994)
- BSc in Mathematics, Dept. of Mathematics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (1993)
- Short course on “Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases”, Imperial College, UK (2007)
I have participated as expert in expert panels/meetings/workshops organised by CDC, EMCDDA, WHO/Europe and ECDC, such as:
▪ WHO/Europe "Regional workshop on advancing implementation science on HIV and viral hepatitis in eastern Europe and Central Asia" (2020)
▪ EMCDDA "Meeting on Monitoring Drugs and Prison in Europe" (2020)
▪ WHO/Europe "Strategic Information and Key Populations Consultation: Biobehavioural Surveys" (2019)
▪ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "Expert consultation on advancing methods for biobehavioral surveys” (2018)
▪ ECDC “European hepatitis C sero-survey (SPHERE-C) project"
▪ EMCDDA "Annual expert meeting on General Population Surveys" (2017)
▪ ECDC "Capacity building in EU/EEA countries for the strengthening of national response to the STI epidemics" (2017)
▪ ECDC "EU/EEA Network for STI epidemiology and STI microbiology meeting" (2014)
▪ EMCDDA "EU expert meeting on the EMCDDA key epidemiological indicator Drug Related Infectious Diseases (DRID) " (2012 & 2013)