Dr. Marta Blangiardo

Biography

Marta Blangiardo is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Imperial College London. She leads the Biostatistics and Data Science theme of the MRC Centre for Environment and Health. Her research focuses on methodological aspects of environmental exposure estimation, including spatial and spatio-temporal models, disease mapping, and risk assessment. Current research areas include air pollution modelling, integrating individual and ecological data to study the links between aircraft noise and cardiovascular outcomes, and developing statistical models for climate change effects on respiratory health. She has co-authored a book on Integrated Nested Laplace approximation, which focuses on statistical applications in environmental contexts. Previous positions include Research Associate and Lecturer at Imperial College. She has a strong academic background with a Summa cum Laude MSc and a PhD in Statistics from Italian universities. Blangiardo continues to contribute actively to public health research, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, where she collaborates with the Turing Institute for accurate local-level estimates of incidence and prevalence.

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