Diego Garcia Bassani

Diego Bassani is a scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children and an assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Bassani received an M.Sc and a PhD in epidemiology from the Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil. He has conducted important research on the causes and distribution of child deaths in India, identification of risk factors for child mortality and impact of policy changes on child health, survival and development. Bassani currently works in international projects in maternal and child health epidemiology in collaboration with the Centre for Epidemiological Research in Pelotas, Brazil, with the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins University and with Saving Newborn Lives in South Africa and Uganda. He has also worked with the Child Health and Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG), chaired by Dr. Robert Black, responsible for the global estimates of neonatal and child deaths.

Possui graduação em Odontologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1998), mestrado em Periodontia pela Universidade Luterana do Brasil (2001), doutorado em Epidemiologia pela Universidade Federal de Pelotas (2005) e pós-doutorado em avaliação de serviços, políticas e sistemas de saúde pela University of Toronto (2007) e pós-doutorado em epidemiologia materno-infantil pela Universiade de Toronto (2010). Atualmente é adjunct scientist (epidemiologist) - Research Institute Child Health and Evaluative Sciences, scientist (epidemiologist) - University of Toronto e assistant professor - University of Toronto. Tem experiência na área de Saúde Coletiva, com ênfase em Epidemiologia, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: epidemiologia, saúde materno-infantil, estimativas de mortalidade infantil e materna, causas de mortes infantis e maternas, avaliação em saúde, nutrição materno-infantil.