Expertise
Thesis support
Science writing
Evidence reviews
Health economics
Resùme
From 2009 to 2012
Ferruccio earned a PhD from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, Italy, where he applied Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to assess technical efficiency in the delivery of primary care. He now works as a freelance postdoctoral researcher, following a 20-year academic career.
From 2011 to 2014
He worked as a ‘data manager’ and ‘data analyst’ at Osservasalute and Doveecomemicuro.it
From 2014 to 2015
Ferruccio worked at the Faculty of Health Social Care and Education at Kingston University and St George’s, University of London, as a Research Associate, where he trained and supervised academic staff in conducting systematic reviews.
From 2015 to 2021
Ferruccio worked at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) – National Guideline Alliance, Ferruccio contributed to NICE clinical guidelines as a systematic reviewer and health economist. He is a member of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC)
From 2019 to 2023
Ferruccio was a managing editor/systematic reviewer at Cochrane Heart, University College London (UCL)
From 2022 to the present
Ferruccio has worked as a freelance researcher for Cochrane Response, he is appointed as an Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics
His research
covers:
- Academic writing
- Guideline development
- Health economics, including data envelopment analysis (DEA) and decision modelling for health and social care
- Mentoring students with their dissertations
- Research on social care services
- Systematic reviews on a number of public health issues, including childhood obesity, smoking prevention, genomics, diabetes management
His career goal is to become an expert in health services research by further developing his expertise in systematic review methodologies and health economics.
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