Marilena Anastasaki, MSc, PhD
Marilena Anastasaki graduated from the Department of Mathematics (BSc) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2012 and received her Master degree in Biostatistics (MSc) by the same University in 2015. In the same year, she completed an Erasmus+/Placement funded internship at Julius Center of the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, focusing on the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. Ever since, she has been working as a researcher at the Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete (UoC), receiving her PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology in 2022. Apart from Biostatistics, her areas of interest include global public health, implementation science, disease prevention, lifestyle modification and behavioural change, socioeconomic determinants of health, community empowerment, professional training and integrated care. Marilena has worked as a researcher for more than 20 programmes of European or other international funding and an equal number of local projects. She has received a Stipendium research scholarship from the Faculty of Medicine, Linkoping University, Sweden and is also affiliated to the UoC Research Center through the Laboratory ‘Health and Society’. Marilena is teaching at three Master programmes of UoC’s School of Medicine, including the Master in ‘Public Health - Primary Health Care - Healthcare Services’, for which she the courses ‘Research Methodology’ and ‘Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases’. She is also an appointed visiting lecturer of the Master in ‘Community Heath Care’ of Frederick University, Cyprus, having the scientific supervision of the course ‘Principles of Public and Community Health’. In 2021, Marilena received an Academic Fellowship by the School of Medicine of UoC to conduct undergraduate teaching. She has co-authored a number of peer-reviewed publications and editorials (37 in PubMed) and has participated as speaker in more than 25 international conferences. She serves as Associate Editor for the journal ‘Primary Health Care Research and Development’ and guest editor for three Special Issues in two different journals. She is a reviewer for a number of journals and a member of three scientific societies. Marilena speaks English fluently and is an advanced user of statistical software (including SPSS and STATA).