Edoardo Colzani is a medical doctor and epidemiologist with a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and a PhD in breast cancer epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He has been assistant professor of public health at the University of Milano-Bicocca until 2015.
He joined ECDC in 2011 where he has focused on the burden of communicable diseases in Europe, assessment of EU accession countries, evidence-based approaches for scientific advice, and vaccine-preventable disease. During the pandemic he acted as strategic analyst and led the scientific advice team. Since 2022, he has led the respiratory virus team at ECDC where he is currently Head of Section.
He is also Deputy Head of Unit Directly-transmitted and Vaccine-preventable Diseases.
