Areti Lagiou
Areti Lagiou
Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Health,
University of West Attica, Greece
Biography
Areti Lagiou, MSc, Ph.D., is Professor of Epidemiology, Disease Prevention and Public Health, Head of the Laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology, and Chair of the Department of Public and Community Health. Dr. Lagiou has a Master’s and a Ph.D. degree in epidemiology and population health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK. She has extensive teaching experience in the fields of Epidemiology, Public and Community Health, as well as in chronic non-communicable disease prevention. She has extensive research experience, both as a principal investigator as well as core research group member in several national and international research projects. She has published more than 90 scientific papers and has co-authored chapters in international textbooks. Her research work is cited more than 2500 times in the international literature and she has an h-index of 28.