Rosaria Galanti

My research unfolds along three themes:

1. Epidemiology of tobacco use: consequences for health and determinants of onset and cessation, with special concern for youth populations. In this area, my major endeavour has been the BROMS cohort, a longitudinal study of more than 3000 children followed up throughout adolescence into adulthood.

2. School environment’s influence on mental health among adolescents, a subject which is the leading track of my major project, a longitudinal study named Kupol.

3. Intervention evaluation research, where I apply epidemiological thinking to the task of gathering evidence on “what works” to promote health and to prevent diseases. Some of these studies were funded and/or conducted in cooperation with public health authorities, above all the Stockholm County Council. Examples of this line of research are a systematic review of how school policy against smoking can affect the behavior among students; and a randomized controlled trial of brief advice for smoking cessation in dental clinics (FRITT study)
Even if no longer a major commitment I like to “keep an eye” on my thesis subject, i.e. the etiology of thyroid cancer, on which I collaborate with other researchers.

Fro 2011 to 2023 I have served as course leader for two courses in the Master of Public Health program, track Epidemiology, where I currently teach on methods of outcome evaluation of public health interventions.

Other teaching moments I have been regularly involved in concern:

The treatment of “missing values” in epidemiologic research, a lecture I usually hold for the Clinical Research School at KI
Methodologic issues in studies of tobacco dependence.

I have been the main supervisor for seven PhD students, of whom six defended their thesis; for two Post-Doc fellows;  and for several master students.