Federico Girosi

Affiliation: Western Sydney University

URL: http:/­/­www.uws.edu.au/­staff_profiles/­uws_profiles/­doctor_federico_girosi

Biography: Federico Girosi is an Associate Professor in Population Health at the School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney and the Head of Research of the Health Market Quality program of Capital Markets CRC. Dr. Girosi is a health economist and a modeler, and his areas of interest include the analysis of spatio-temporal patient flows, the development of a microsimulation for the prediction of health and health care utilization, the analysis of the Australian hospital payment system, the evaluation of otitis media interventions in Aboriginal children and the burden of eating disorders. Dr. Girosi earned a Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University in 2003, and worked 8 years at the RAND Corporation (Santa Monica, U.S.A.) as a policy researcher. He also holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Genoa, Italy, and conducted research for 10 years at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fields of statistical data analysis and computer vision.

Seminars given by Federico Girosi


Computational Science and the Health Program of Capital Markets CRC

Speaker: Federico Girosi (Western Sydney University)

Time: Monday 02/11/2015 from 14:00 to 15:00

Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).

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