Dr Pamela Minicozzi
Assistant Professor - Medical Statistics
United Kingdom
Dr Pamela Minicozzi graduated in Applied Mathematics from the University of Pavia (Italy) in 2006, then completed a Master in Medical Statistics and Statistical Methods for Epidemiology at the University of Milan (Italy) in 2009, followed by a PhD in Public Health and Educational Science in 2012 at the University of Pavia (Italy), and a Master in Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics at the University of Milan-Bicocca in 2018.
She was a Research Fellow in the Molecular Ecotossicology Unit, Department of Environmental Science and Life in Alessandria (Italy) in 2007. From 2007 to 2019, she worked as a Research Fellow in the Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan (Italy), on EUROCARE (European Cancer Registry-based study of survival and care of cancer patients) and related studies, like among others the European High Resolution Studies on inequalities in survival from breast, colorectal, and lung cancers, skin melanoma and haematological malignancies. She has been working in the Cancer Survival Group at LSHTM since August 2019.
Affiliations
Teaching
Pamela teaches on the Basic Epidemiology, Introduction to Statistical Computing (R practicals) and Programming (R practicals) modules in Term 1, and the Statistical Methods for Epidemiology (SME) module in Term 2. She also teaches on the "Cancer Survival: Principles, Methods and Applications" short course and she is involved in the supervision of the Distance Learning MSc Epidemiology Projects.
Research
She is currently working on the CONCORD programme, focused on the international comparisons of cancer survival, and on the VENUSCANCER project, analysing more in deep the inequalities in survival from cancers of the breast, cervix and ovary.