Area of Research

My area of research has been concentrated on the development of mathematical and statistical models to study the dynamics of HIV infection and to forecast the future trends of the AIDS epidemic. The study of AIDS epidemiology since its early stages has represented a challenging statistical task, due to peculiar features of the observed data. Statistical models, mainly back-calculation models, have been used to reconstruct past HIV trends and future AIDS figures.
At present, my scientific research focuses on the following projects at Karolinska Institutet:

Cancer epidemiology, both incidence and mortality, with particular emphasis on breast, cancer and prostate sites. My interest is to study etiological factors affecting cancer occurences as well survival from the diagnosis.
1. Breast Cancer Survival
2. Ovarian Cancer Survival
3. Prostate Cancer
4. Stomach Cancer
5. Brain Cancer
Total physical activity in middle-aged and elderly women from a population-based cohort
The Impact of Tobacco Use and High Body Mass Index on the risk of Postoperative Complications
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I am one of the statistician involved in the analysis of two main cohort studies at MEB:
1. National March Cohort
2. Construction Worker Cohort