
Health Data Science
HEAD: Emanuele Di Angelantonio ASSOCIATE HEAD: Francesca IevaThe Health Data Science Centre, established in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano, aims to help transform scientific understanding and, consequently, prevention and treatment of diseases through use of large-scale data science research that will support novel and actionable approaches to improve the health of populations.
The Centre’s goal is to help seek major new clinical insights through enabling innovative integrative studies of genetic data, electronic health records, imaging, wearable and biomolecular data. The ultimate vision is to create new informatics infrastructures, analytical capabilities, data science methods, and programmes of multidisciplinary research that enable the acceleration of health research in Italy and globally.
To reach its goal, the Centre will pursue three complementary approaches: (i) harvest and integration of health data from multiple administrative sources by establishing a dialogue with regional healthcare districts, hospitals and scientific societies; (ii) generation of new biomolecular data from population studies; and (iii) improvement of data analysis and interpretation using new analytical methods integrated with clinical epidemiology and healthcare research.
The Centre aims to become a reference institution for the analysis of large-scale healthcare data, working in synergy with national and international partners. Its work reflects the global approach to life sciences of the Human Technopole, which encompasses basic research and the use of artificial intelligence and big data to improve human health and well-being.
Research groups
Zuccolo Group
In the Zuccolo group, epidemiologists, statisticians and data scientists analyse highly-dimensional complex data to improve our understanding of maternal and child health, with a particular focus on intergenerational effects. We develop new data pipelines and phenotype captures, while applying cutting edge methods for robust inference to inform knowledge translation. We describe health and health behaviours […]
Centre members
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Emanuele Di Angelantonio
Head of Health Data Science Centre -
Francesca Ieva
Associate Head of Research centre -
Claudia Crovace
Research Centre Administrator -
Gianmauro Cuccuru
Data Manager -
Giulia Mangiameli
Scientific Project Manager -
Luisa Zuccolo
Research Group Leader
DADS PhD Programme


Through a collaboration with Politecnico di Milano, the Health Data Science Centre promotes a PhD programme in Data Analytics and Decision Sciences (DADS)
1st year:
- Letizia Clementi, Brain Connectivity - Functional Data Analysis - Neuroimaging - Volumetric Domains
Advisor: Marco Domenico Santambrogio - Federica Corso, Health Analytics - Multivariate Statistics - Machine Learning Causal Inference - Cost-Benefit analysis
Advisor: Anna Maria Paganoni - Laura Savaré, Real World data - Pharmacoepidemiology - Risk stratification - Survival analysis - Analysis of the sequences
Advisor: Francesca Ieva


2nd year:
Riccardo Scimone, Data Science - Spatial Statistics - Functional Data - Object Oriented Statistics
Advisor: Piercesare SecchiFrancesco Scotti, Regional Science - Structural and Cohesion Funds - Socio-economic development - COVID-19 pandemic - Economic Resilience
Advisor: Fabio PammolliValeria Maria Urbano, Data analytics - Case study - Survey - Experimental research
Advisor: Giovanni Azzone


3rd year:
- Fabio Azzalini, Data Management - Data Integration - Computer Ethics
Advisor: Letizia Tanca - Michela Carlotta Massi, Statistics - Machine Learning - Statistical Genomics - Representation Learning - Computational Biology
Advisor: Francesca Ieva - Agostino Torti, Functional Data Analysis – Network Analysis – Mobility Data
Advisor: Piercesare Secchi