Alice Rosi currently works at the
Department of Food and Drug Sciences, University of Parma. She has a Master’s Degree in
Human Nutrition (University of Milan) and a Ph.D. in Food Science (University
of Parma). Alice Rosi does research in Food Science, Nutrition, and Dietetics.
She is actively involved in European and national projects focused on
nutritional assessment, diet evaluation, food choices, and eating behaviours. She is also
participating in developing mobile applications for edutainment and nutritional
coaching. She is an active member of the Italian Human Nutrition Society (SINU) Working Group “SINU Young”, and a founding member of the “Italy Regional Network” for NNedPro (Need for Nutrition Education Project) Global Centre for Nutrition.
Francesca Scazzina is an Associate
Professor of Human Nutrition at the Department of Food and Drug Sciences,
University of Parma. Since 2009, she has been involved in nutrition education
projects carried out in primary schools, and in this context, she has gained
in-depth experience in educational health programs and surveys on the child
population. She is co-founder and Scientific Coordinator of Madegus srl Impresa
Sociale, an academic spin-off of the University of Parma focused on the
development of specific strategies and educational tools to improve nutritional
knowledge, eating habits, and lifestyles. She is a member of the Governing
Council of the Italian Society of Human Nutrition (SINU), as well as
collaborating in the SINU-SCOLA working group for the Emilia-Romagna and Marche
regions. She is a Senior Collaborator of The Need for Nutrition
Education/Innovation Programme (NNEdPro, Cambridge Foundation, Cambridge, UK.
She is a member of the Environment and Health section of the European Public
Health Association (EUPHA).
Dr. Achraf Ammar currently works at the Department of Training and Movement Science, Institute of Sport Science, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He holds a PhD in Sports Science from the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. Dr. Achraf Ammar does research in multidisciplinary Approaches, public health, movement and training science, nutritional biochemistry, sports medicine and exercise physiology, and biomechanics. His current projects are the MEDIET4ALL project (PRIMA European program), Effects of Home Confinement on Multiple Lifestyle Behaviours (ECLB-COVID19), Polyphenols supplementation for sports performance and brain health, and Motor learning models in strength training (e.g., weightlifting).
Lorenzo Monasta, DSc in Epidemiology, MSc
in Medical Sciences, and MSc+BSc in Statistics and Demography, worked for
ten years (1996–2006) as a Research Associate at CIETinternational in
monitoring and evaluation and participatory research for health and social
planning, using qualitative and quantitative research tools. Since 2007, he has
worked at the Institute for Maternal and Child Health—IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo” as
an epidemiologist, both in clinical and population settings. His research is
focused primarily on maternal, child, and adolescent health, public health
issues, and the burden of disease methodology. Since 2008, he has collaborated
with the Global Burden of Disease Project (GBD), and since 2016 he has
coordinated the Italian GBD Initiative, a network of over 150 Italian
researchers and 20 research institutions.
