I have presented the results of my research in several countries around the world, including Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Crete, England, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States.
For further details regarding my research, projects, publications (journal articles, book chapters, papers in conference proceedings, outreach), and conference participation, please refer to my curriculum vitae (in italian) available here.
Furmenti, M. F., Bertarelli, G., & Ferrè, F. (2025). Person-centred care in oncological home services: a scoping review of patients’ and caregivers’ experience and needs. BMC Health Services Research, 25, 232. Link.
Schirripa Spagnolo, F., Bertarelli, G., Summa, D., Scannapieco, M., Pratesi, M., Marchetti, S., & Salvati, N. (2025). Inference for big data assisted by small area methods: an application on sustainable development goals sensitivity of enterprises in Italy. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 188(1), 27-45. Link.
Marchetti, S., Giusti, C., Schirripa Spagnolo, F., Bertarelli, G., & Biggeri, L. (2024). The impact of local cost-of-living differences on relative poverty incidence: an application using retail scanner data and small area estimation models. Statistical Methods & Applications, 33(4), 1117-1143. Link.
Seghieri, C., Ferré, F., Tortu, C., Bertarelli, G., Mavrogianni, C., Usheva, N., ... & Manios, Y. (2024). Addressing chronic diseases: a comparative study of policies towards type-2 diabetes and hypertension in selected European countries. European Journal of Public Health, 34(4), 781-786. Link.
Tonutti, G., Garnero, A., Bertarelli, G., & Pratesi, M. (2024). The local distribution of in-work poverty and sectoral employment: an analysis of local dynamics in Italy. Statistical Methods & Applications, 33(3), 973-998. Link.
Vainieri, M., Vandelli, A., Benvenuti, S. C., & Bertarelli, G. (2023). Tracking the digital health gap in elderly: a study in Italian remote areas. Health Policy, 133, 104842. Link.
Moschonis, G., Siopis, G., Jung, J., Eweka, E., Willems, R., Kwasnicka, D., et al. (2023). Effectiveness, reach, uptake, and feasibility of digital health interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. The Lancet Digital Health, 5(3), e125-e143. Link.
Siopis, G., Moschonis, G., Eweka, E., Jung, J., Kwasnicka, D., Asare, B. Y. A., et al. (2023). Effectiveness, reach, uptake, and feasibility of digital health interventions for adults with hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. The Lancet Digital Health, 5(3), e144-e159. Link.
Tonutti, G., Bertarelli, G., Giusti, C., & Pratesi, M. (2022). Disaggregation of poverty indicators by small area methods for assessing the targeting of the “Reddito di Cittadinanza” national policy in Italy. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 82, 101327. Link.
Alba, S., Rood, E., Mecatti, F., Ross, J. M., Dodd, P. J., Chang, S., Potgieter, M., Bertarelli, G., et al. (2022). TB Hackathon: development and comparison of five models to predict subnational tuberculosis prevalence in Pakistan. Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 7(1), 13. Link.
Pratesi, M., Quattrociocchi, L., Bertarelli, G., Gemignani, A., & Giusti, C. (2021). Spatial distribution of multidimensional educational poverty in Italy using small area estimation. Social Indicators Research, 156, 563-586. Link.
Gianfredi, V., Bertarelli, G., Minelli, L., & Nucci, D. (2021). Promoting healthy eating in childhood: results from the Children PrOmOting Nutrition throUgh Theatre (COcONUT) project. Minerva Pediatrics, 76(4), 464-472. Link.
Bertarelli, G., Chambers, R., & Salvati, N. (2021). Outlier robust small domain estimation via bias correction and robust bootstrapping. Statistical Methods & Applications, 30, 331-357. Link.
Bertarelli, G., Ranalli, M.G., Bartolucci, F., Dalò, M., & Solari, F. (2018). Small area estimation for unemployment using latent Markov models. Survey Methodology, 44(2), 167-192. Link.
Chiavarini, M., Bertarelli, G., Minelli, L., & Fabiani, R. (2017). Dietary intake of meat cooking-related mutagens (HCAs) and risk of colorectal adenoma and cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutrients, 9(5), 514. Link.
Fabiani, R., Minelli, L., Bertarelli, G., & Bacci, S. (2016). A western dietary pattern increases prostate cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutrients, 8(10), 626. Link.
Crescenti, A., Borghi, G., Bignami, E., Bertarelli, G., Landoni, G., Casiraghi, G. M., et al. (2011). Intraoperative use of tranexamic acid to reduce transfusion rate in patients undergoing radical retropubic prostatectomy: double blind, randomised, placebo controlled trial. BMJ, 343. Link.
Bertarelli, G., D’Agostino, A., Giusti, C., & Pratesi, M. (2021) Measuring Educational Poverty in Italy: a Multidimensional and Fuzzy Approach. In Betti, G., Lemmi, A. (eds.), Analysis of Socio-Economic Conditions: Insights from a Fuzzy Multidimensional Approach. London and New York: Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group. London & New York (pp. 166-179) ISBN: 9780367514068 eISBN: 9781003053712. Link.
Bertarelli, G., Schirripa Spagnolo, F., Salvati, N., & Pratesi, M. (2021). Small area estimation of agricultural data. In Spatial Econometric Methods in Agricultural Economics Using R, CRC PRESS, Taylor & Francis Inc. (pp. 202-234) ISBN:97814987668-4. Link.
Crippa, F., Mecatti, F., & Bertarelli, G. (2021) A Spatio-Temporal Approach to Latent Variables: Modelling Gender (im) balance in the Big Data Era. In Pathways between Social Science and Computational Social Science: Theories, Methods and Interpretations. Springer Volume in “Computational Social Science”. ISBN: 9783030549367. Link.
Bertarelli, G., Crippa, F., & Mecatti, F. (2018). Measuring Latent Variables in Space and/or Time: A Gender Statistics Exercise. In Demography and Health Issues: Population Aging, Mortality and Data Analysis (pp. 133-142). Springer Volume in “Demographic Methods and Health Issues”. ISBN: 9783319760025. Link.
Bertarelli, G., Corbella, A., Di Iorio, J., Gorshechnikova, A., & Scott, M. (2018). Curve Clustering for Brain Functional Activity and Synchronization. In: Canale A., Durante D., Paci L., Scarpa B. (eds) Studies in Neural Data Science. START UP RESEARCH 2017. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 257. Springer, Cham. ISBN: 97830300003-4. Link.
Stival, M., Schiavon, L., Bertarelli, G., & Campostrini, S. Communicating complex statistical models to a public health audience: translating science into action with the FARSI approach. arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.06787. Link. [ submitted ]
Andreella, A., Bertarelli, G., Caldura, F., & Campostrini, S. A two-step model to study the inclusivity's distribution of Italian early childhood education and care services. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.15610. Link. [ submitted ]
Schirripa Spagnolo, F., Bertarelli, G., Chambers, R., Haziza, D., & Salvati, N. Bias Control for M-quantile-based Small Area Estimators. [ submitted ]
Vandelli, A., Bertarelli, G., & Vainieri, M. Is it all about trust? The propensity of older adults to digital health technologies: a case study from Italy. [ submitted ]
Falchetta, G., Mazzone, A., Bhasin,S., Davide, M., Borges, P., Fabbri, K., Bertarelli, G., Pistorio, A., Dal Barco, I., and De Cian, E.Cooling Poverty across world countries. [ submitted ]
Nicolussi, F., Masci, C., Bertarelli, G., Terzera, L., & Mecatti, F. Learning procedure for partially observed variables. [ in preparation ]
Ranalli, M.G., Bertarelli, G., Del Sarto, S., Guandalini, A., & Pratesi, M. Mixed-Effects Item Response Theory models for Small Area Estimation using a two-step approach: the case of Educational Poverty. [ in preparation ]
Stival, M., Andreella, A., & Bertarelli, G. The environment around us: statistical insights into community perceptions using PASSI data. [ in preparation ]