Keywords
social determinants of health, mental health , complexity science
Daniele holds a Bachelor’s degree in cognitive sciences at the University of Trento, and obtained a Research Master’s in Clinical and Developmental Psychopathology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Throughout his studies he got passionate about network analyses and complex systems approaches to mental health. After his studies he contributed to the WHO-funded umbrella reviews on the relationship between COVID-19 and mental health at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and worked on the urban and social determinants of mental health at the Centre for Urban Mental Health at the University of Amsterdam.
During his PhD he’ll continue to explore the social determinants of health by developing tools to assess socioeconomic disparities in healthcare. He’ll do that through quantitative individual- and area-based approaches, in combination with stakeholders’ co-creation.
He is passionate about bridging academia and policy. He wants to contribute in reducing health disparities by addressing methodological gaps and by tailoring health data to the needs of decision makers.
