Luisa Zuccolo
- Research Group Leader, Zuccolo Group
La dott.ssa Luisa Zuccolo è un’epidemiologa con esperienza nell’inferenza causale applicata alla salute della popolazione. Dopo la laurea in Fisica, ha ottenuto una borsa di studio presso l’Università degli Studi di Torino in Epidemiologia e Sorveglianza del Cancro. Si è poi trasferita all’Università di Bristol (Regno Unito) ed è stata insignita di una borsa di studio pre-dottorato dal Medical Research Council del Regno Unito per completare un Master in Epidemiologia (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) e un PhD in Genetic Epidemiology con il Prof. George Davey Smith (Università di Bristol). Le è stata quindi assegnata una seconda borsa di studio MRC in Population Health Science and Epidemiology; dopodiché, nel 2018, ha acquisito una posizione di ruolo presso l’Università di Bristol. La ricerca del Dr. Zuccolo include gli effetti causali dell’alcol sulla salute, in particolare dell’esposizione prenatale all’alcol, utilizzando metodi e progetti che migliorano l’inferenza causale. Più recentemente, si è concentrata sulla salute materna e infantile, studiando gli ostacoli e gli effetti dell’allattamento al seno prolungato, l’impatto del COVID-19 sugli esiti di fertilità e gravidanza e la disinformazione nei messaggi di salute pubblica sui social media.
Pubblicazioni
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12/2023 - Journal of Medical Internet Research
Evaluating Messaging on Prenatal Health Behaviors Using Social Media Data: Systematic Review
Background:Social media platforms are increasingly being used to disseminate messages about prenatal health. However, to date, we lack a systematic assessment of how to evaluate the impact of official prenatal health messaging and campaigns using social media data. Objective:This study aims to review both the published and gray literature on how official prenatal health messaging […]
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09/2023 - BMC Infectious Diseases
COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy: the impact of multimorbidity and smoking status on vaccine hesitancy, a cohort study of 25,111 women in Wales, UK
Background Multimorbidity, smoking status, and pregnancy are identified as three risk factors associated with more severe outcomes following a SARS-CoV-2 infection, thus vaccination uptake is crucial for pregnant women living with multimorbidity and a history of smoking. This study aimed to examine the impact of multimorbidity, smoking status, and demographics (age, ethnic group, area of […]
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07/2023 - BMJ Medicine
Vaccine effectiveness for prevention of covid-19 related hospital admission during pregnancy in England during the alpha and delta variant dominant periods of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: population based cohort study
Objective: To estimate vaccine effectiveness for preventing covid-19 related hospital admission in individuals first infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus during pregnancy compared with those of reproductive age who were not pregnant when first infected with the virus. Design: Population based cohort study. Setting: Office for National Statistics Public Health Data Asset linked dataset, providing national linked census and […]
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02/2023 - Paedriatic and Perinatal Epidemiology
Bounding the average causal effect in Mendelian randomisation studies with multiple proposed instruments: An application to prenatal alcohol exposure and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Background As large-scale observational data become more available, caution regarding causal assumptions remains critically important. This may be especially true for Mendelian randomisation (MR), an increasingly popular approach. Point estimation in MR usually requires strong, often implausible homogeneity assumptions beyond the core instrumental conditions. Bounding, which does not require homogeneity assumptions, is infrequently applied in […]
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