Dr. Evangelia Ntzani is a professor of hygiene and epidemiology and head of the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the University of Ioannina, School of Medicine in Greece and an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, at the School of Public Health, Brown University. She is a physician scientist, an epidemiologist, a pediatrician by training, and a consultant in community medicine and public health. Her research interests include clinical, environmental and molecular epidemiology, motivating behavioral change across diverse areas, assessment of large-scale clinical and molecular information, evidence-based medicine, and research methodology and bias. Her projects are usually embedded within national and international consortia and her work has been published in high impact journals. 

Evidence synthesis lies at the core of Ntzani’s scientific activity. She is a founding member of the Cochrane Center Greece and holds a seat on the Panel for Contaminants in the Food Chain at the European Food Safety Authority, a prestigious regulatory body of the European Union. She is the chair of the Working Group on Pesticide Toxicity Assessment, Science Advice for Policy by European Academies & European Scientific Advice Mechanism, European Commission, an effort that informs European Union legislation on pesticide use effects on human health. She is a member of the GENOMOS/GEFOS/GEMSTONE and TREAT-OA consortia focusing on the translational epidemiology of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, respectively, where she has been involved in the characterization of the genetic background of these disease entities.