Who We Are
John Acquavella, PhD FACE FISPE
Dr. Acquavella is emeritus professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Aarhus University, Denmark and a fellow of both the American College of Epidemiology and the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology. He is a past president of the American College of Epidemiology (2006-7) and the recipient of the College’s Distinguished Leadership and Service Award in 2009. John did his doctoral work focusing on cancer epidemiology at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute – State University of New York at Buffalo. The Society for Epidemiologic Research awarded John the Lilienfeld student prize in 1989 for a paper based on his doctoral dissertation. John has more than 40 years’ experience working in government (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), academia (University of California, Aarhus University), and industry (Exxon, Monsanto, Amgen). He is currently an editor for the Annals of Epidemiology and was formerly an editor for the Environmental Health Perspectives. John has published extensively in occupational and environmental epidemiology, and pharmacoepidemiology. Dr. Acquavella is a founding member of the Global Epidemiology Institute.
Paolo Boffetta, MD MPH
Dr. Boffetta graduated in Medicine from the University of Turin and obtained a Master in Public Health from Columbia University. He is currently Professor at Stony Brook University, NY, and at the University of Bologna, Italy. Previous appointments include the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the German Cancer Research Center and the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He holds adjunct professorships at Harvard, Vanderbilt and other Universities. His main fields of research are cancer epidemiology, cancer prevention, gene-environment interactions, molecular epidemiology and evidence integration. He has established and coordinated international consortia in cancer epidemiology and prevention, including ILCCO (lung cancer), INHANCE (head and neck cancer), PANC4 (pancreatic cancer), ACC (Asia Cohort Consortium), StoP (stomach cancer), and IESC3 (esophageal cancer). He authored over 1600 publications and edited 16 books. His h-index is 204. Dr. Boffetta is a founding member of the Global Epidemiology Institute.
Igor Burstyn, BSc MSc PhD
Dr. Burstyn is an educator and researcher in the field of environmental and occupational health, with training in both epidemiology and occupational hygiene (BSc in Microbiology from the University of British Columbia, MSc in Occupational Hygiene from the University of British Columbia, PhD in Environmental & Occupational Health from Utrecht University). Dr. Burstyn a tenured faculty at Drexel University, PA. His research primarily focuses on the identification of sources and the health impacts of occupational and environmental exposures. Dr. Burstyn's methodological expertise lies in the areas of measurement error, misclassification, and confounding as they apply to observational data in epidemiology. His achievements have been recognized by Canadian Journal of Statistics Award (2022) for contribution to a paper on dose-response modelling and Outstanding Contribution to Epidemiology Award (2019) from the American College of Epidemiology. His h-index is 46. Dr. Burstyn is a founding member of the Global Epidemiology Institute.
George Maldonado, BS MSPH PhD
Dr. Maldonado is an epidemiologist who specializes in epidemiologic methods. He is a graduate of University of California-Los Angeles, with BS in psychobiology, MSPH in epidemiology and environmental health, and PhD in epidemiology. He is a tenured faculty at University of Minnesota, MN. Dr. Maldonado spends his time thinking about how to get good answers to causal questions from imperfect, nonexperimental studies --most human health studies being both imperfect and non-experimental. He has spent the last 30 years studying how to design, analyze and interpret human health (epidemiologic) studies. Dr. Maldonado has spent countless hours in the classroom teaching undergraduate, master’s and PhD students how to do this, and published numerous articles in the peer-reviewed, health-science literature on this topic. His h-index is 32. Dr. Maldonado is a founding member of the Global Epidemiology Institute.
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