Dr Ariana Zeka
Senior Lecturer
Halsbury Building 123
- Email: ariana.zeka@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267359
Summary
I am an environmental epidemiologist and population health scientist. I am currently an academic at Brunel University, UK, and an adjunct faculty of the Department of Public Health, Medical University of Tirana, Albania. Main areas of my work include the assessment of population health effects of environmental exposures; environmental, health and social inequalities; the evaluation of public policy and intervention effects on population health; population impacts of climate change; capacity building in the field of environmental health in developing countries; creating opportunities for research infrastructures in environment and public health in Europe. I collaborate with a wide international network of academics, public health and policy authorities, with my research work spanning across several regions.
One of the main goals of my work is to inform public health policy. Therefore, I work very closely with public authorities and national institutes of public health in several countries, and I act as scientific advisor on issues of environment and health for several national institutes of public health including the UK, Italy, Ireland, Albania, Georgia, China; and the World Health Organization. I am member of scientific committees and advisory boards of several European and National programs/projects in environmental public health.
Qualifications
2003-2006 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Epidemiology. Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
2003 ScD, Doctor of Science in Epidemiology (Major). University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Epidemiology. Unit of Environmental Epidemiology, International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organisation, Lyon, France
1998 MSc, Master of Science in Environmental Sciences and Policy. University of Manchester, UK
1994 MD, Degree in Medicine (Medical Doctor). Faculty of Medicine, University of Tirana, Albania
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
1994-1997 General Practitioner, Albania
Newest selected publications
Vicedo-Cabrera, AM., Scovronick, N., Sera, F., Royé, D., Schneider, R., Tobias, A., et al. (2021) 'The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change'. Nature Climate Change, 11 (6). pp. 492 - 500. ISSN: 1758-678X
Lauriola, P., Serafini, A., Santamaria, M., Guicciardi, S., Kurotschka, PK., Leonardi, GS., et al. (2021) 'Family doctors to connect global concerns due to climate change with local actions: State-of-the art and some proposals'. World Medical and Health Policy. ISSN: 2153-2028
Lee, W., Kim, Y., Sera, F., Gasparrini, A., Park, R., Michelle Choi, H., et al. (2020) 'Projections of excess mortality related to diurnal temperature range under climate change scenarios: a multi-country modelling study'. The Lancet Planetary Health, 4 (11). pp. e512 - e521. ISSN: 2542-5196
Parrish, R., Colbourn, T., Lauriola, P., Leonardi, G., Hajat, S. and Zeka, A. (2020) 'A critical analysis of the drivers of human migration patterns in the presence of climate change: A new conceptual model'. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (17). pp. 1 - 20. ISSN: 1661-7827
Zeka, A., Tobias, A., Leonardi, G., Bianchi, F., Lauriola, P., Crabbe, H., et al. (2020) 'Responding to COVID-19 requires strong epidemiological evidence of environmental and societal determining factors'. The Lancet Planetary Health, 4 (9). pp. e375 - e376. ISSN: 2542-5196 Open Access Link