Massimo Stafoggia

Dr. Stafoggia graduated in Statistical Sciences on 2001, took a M.Sc. in Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and a PhD at the Karolinska Institutet of Stockholm, Sweden. He has been working as a senior biostatistician at the Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Region Health Service, Italy, since April 2003. Since January 2023 he is affiliated at Karolinksa Institutet, Sweden, as Adjunct Senior Lecturer.

He has contributed to the planning and implementation of several environmental epidemiology studies, at the Italian (SISTI, EPIAIR 1 and 2) and European level (HEAPSS, AIRGENE, ESCAPE, EXHAUSTION, ELAPSE, EXPANSE, MCC Collaborative Network), aimed at investigating the relationship between environmental exposures and adverse health outcomes. He has been Principal Investigator of the EU-funded project MED-PARTICLES: “Particles size and composition in Mediterranean countries: geographical variability and short-term health effects” (LIFE10 ENV/IT/000327) and co-P.I. of the Italian projects BEEP: “Big Data in Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology” and BIGEPI: “Use of BIG data for the investigation of the acute and chronic effects of air pollution in the Italian population”.

In the last years, he has been involved in several national and international projects aimed at developing spatiotemporal models to predict daily PM concentrations at fine spatial grid in Europe, by use of satellite data. Among these, He is referent of Italy for the NASA-ASI project MAIA.

He is co-author of more than 300 scientific papers published on international and Italian journals and indexed in PubMed.

His recent paper: “Long-term exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations and mortality among 28 million people: results from seven large European cohorts within the ELAPSE project,” published in The Lancet Planetary Health, 6 (1), January 2022, was selected by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) as the Best Environmental Epidemiology Paper (BEEP) published in 2022.

His current H index is 74 (Scopus, January 2026).