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Dr. Annamaria Conte

Short Biography

She graduated in statistics at ‘La Sapienza’ University in Rome in 1994. In 1995, she joined the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise "G. Caporale" (IZSAM, Teramo, Italy). Since 2009, she has led the Statistics and GIS Unit, coordinating and managing the activities required by the National and International Reference Centers operating at IZSAM (the National Reference Centre for Epidemiology, the OIE Collaborating Centre for Veterinary Training, Epidemiology, Food Safety and Animal Welfare, and the FAO Reference Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology). Her research focuses on factors influencing the spread and persistence of vector-borne diseases. She leads the development of several web-based GIS, which provide near-real-time surveillance and modeling tools to share and analyze animal disease data and information. Her recent interests are integrating remotely sensed data and deep learning methods to produce early warning systems for preventing and controlling emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. She is the author or co-author of about 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals.