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Public Health & Epidemiology Researcher | Global Health, HIV, HPV, NCDs | Scientific Writing & Research Design | 10+ yrs
Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing
Medical Writing
Research
Meta-Research,
Gap Analysis,
Scientific and Technical Research,
Systematic Literature Review,
Secondary Data Collection
Consulting
Healthcare Consulting,
Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI
Statistical Analysis,
Data Visualization,
Data Insights
Work Experience
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
October 2024 - Present 
UniCamillus, International University of Health and Medical Science
October 2019 - September 2024
Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
December 2017 - August 2019
Education
MSc
The University of Edinburgh
September 2019 - August 2022
PhD
University of Roma "La Sapienza" - Italy
October 2011 - June 2014
Medical Degree (MD)
University of Roma "La Sapienza" - Italy
November 2003 - October 2009
Certifications
- Certification details not provided.
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
S. Orlando, M. Cicala, C. De Santo, C. Mosconi, F. Ciccacci, L. Guarente, M. Carestia, G. Liotta, D. Di Giovanni, E. Buonomo, et al. (2025). The financial burden of healthcare-associated infections: a propensity score analysis in an Italian healthcare setting . Infection Prevention in Practice.
Fausto Ciccacci, Benjamin Welu, Harrison Ndoi, Claudia Mosconi, Carolina De Santo, Mariachiara Carestia, Anna Maria Doro Altan, Joseph Murungi, Koome Muthuri, Mariagrazia Cicala, et al. (2024). Exploring diseases burden in HIV population: Results from the CHAO (Comorbidities in HIV/AIDS outpatients) cross-sectional study in Kenya . Global Epidemiology.
Fausto Ciccacci, Marzia Lommi, Fabio D'Agostino, Giuseppe Esposito, Romina Belsito, Maria Concetta Pellicciari, Ana Maria Porcel‐Gálvez, Marta Lima‐Serrano, Noemi Giannetta, Dhurata Ivziku (2024). Perception of Utility and Efficacy of Implementation of TEC‐MED Model of Care for Frail Older People and Their Caregivers: A Qualitative Study . International Journal of Older People Nursing.
Fausto Ciccacci, Kanyza Ibraimo, Alberto Sineque, Susanna Ceffa, Zita Sidumo, Stefano Orlando, Cristina Marazzi (2024). The impact of COVID-19 pandemic in tuberculosis diagnosis in sub-Saharan Africa: data from DREAM program in Mozambique . African Health Sciences.
Fausto Ciccacci, Flavio Ismael, Fernanda Parruque, Dércio Júlio Maquete, Sandra Loureiro, Moises Balamala, Leilo Morviducci, Andrea Manto, Fabiana Lanti, Stefano Orlando, et al. (2024). Implementing HbA1c monitoring in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons learnt from a pilot project in Mozambique . Public Health in Practice.
Fausto Ciccacci, Stefano Orlando, Carolina de Santo, Claudia Mosconi, Francesca Di Gaspare, Pelagia Chatzichristou, Leonardo Emberti Gialloreti, Laura Morciano, Donatella Varrenti, Giuseppe Liotta, et al. (2023). COVID-19 infection rate and mortality in a local health authority in Italy: Differences between home-dwelling and residential older adults . Public Health in Practice.
Fausto Ciccacci, Marco Floridia, Clementina Maria Galluzzo, Stefano Orlando, Richard Luhanga, Robert Mphwere, Thom Kavalo, Mauro Andreotti, Roberta Amici, Maria Cristina Marazzi, et al. (2023). Micronutrient and Nutritional Status of HIV-Exposed and HIV-Unexposed Malawian Infants in the First Year of Life: Assessment of Ferritin, Vitamin A, and D Status and Its Association with Growth . Nutrients.
Fausto Ciccacci, Marco Floridia, Clementina Maria Galluzzo, Stefano Orlando, Richard Luhanga, Robert Mphwere, Thom Kavalo, Mauro Andreotti, Roberta Amici, Maria Cristina Marazzi, et al. (2023). Micronutrient and Nutritional Status of HIV-Exposed and HIV-Unexposed Malawian Infants in the First Year of Life: Assessment of Ferritin, Vitamin A, and D Status and Its Association with Growth . Nutrients.
Fausto Ciccacci, Yolande Christelle Ketchanji Mougang, Laurent-Mireille Endale Mangamba, Rosamaria Capuano, Alexandro Catini, Roberto Paolesse, Hugo Bertrand Mbatchou Ngahane, Leonardo Palombi, Corrado Di Natale (2023). On-Field Test of Tuberculosis Diagnosis through Exhaled Breath Analysis with a Gas Sensor Array . Biosensors.
Fausto Ciccacci, Flavio Ismael, Veronica Chume, Lina Ruth, Pedro Mbula, Stefano Orlando, Noorjehan Abdul Majid, Maria Cristina Marazzi (2023). Enhancing retention in care in HIV-infected adolescents during COVID-19 in Mozambique: results from the DREAM program . International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health.
Fausto Ciccacci, Flavio Ismael, Veronica Chume, Lina Ruth, Pedro Mbula, Stefano Orlando, Noorjehan Abdul Majid, Maria Cristina Marazzi (2023). Enhancing retention in care in HIV-infected adolescents during COVID-19 in Mozambique: results from the DREAM program . International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health.
Fausto Ciccacci, KETCHANJI MOUGANG YOLANDE CHRISTELLE, Laurent-Mireille Endale Mangamba, Rosamaria Capuano, Alexandro Catini, Roberto Paolesse, Bertrand Hugo Mbatchou Ngahane, Leonardo Palombi, Corrado Di Natale (2023). On-Field Test of Tuberculosis Diagnosis through Exhaled Breath Analysis with a Gas Sensor Array . Biosensors.
Fausto Ciccacci, Isotta Triulzi, Claire Somerville, Salimu Sangwani, Ilaria Palla, Stefano Orlando, Hawa Sangare Mamary, Maria Cristina Marazzi, Giuseppe Turchetti (2022). Understanding the meanings of male partner support in the adherence to therapy among HIV-positive women: a gender analysis . Global Health Action.
Fausto Ciccacci, Livianna Carrieri, Alberto Osella, Gianluigi Giannelli, Maria Scavo (2022). Premenopausal Syndrome and NAFLD: A New Approach Based on Gender Medicine . Biomedicines.
Fausto Ciccacci, Livianna Carrieri, Alberto Osella, Gianluigi Giannelli, maria principia scavo (2022). Premenopausal Syndrome and NAFLD: A New Approach Based on Gender Medicine . Biomedicines.
Fausto Ciccacci, Stefano Orlando, Claudia Mosconi, Carolina De Santo, Leonardo Emberti Gialloreti, Maria Chiara Inzerilli, Olga Madaro, Sandro Mancinelli, Maria Cristina Marazzi, Leonardo Palombi, et al. (2021). The Effectiveness of Intervening on Social Isolation to Reduce Mortality during Heat Waves in Aged Population: A Retrospective Ecological Study . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Fausto Ciccacci, Stefano Orlando, Claudia Mosconi, Carolina De Santo, Leonardo Emberti Gialloreti, Maria Chiara Inzerilli, Olga Madaro, Sandro Mancinelli, Maria Cristina Marazzi, Leonardo Palombi, et al. (2021). The Effectiveness of Intervening on Social Isolation to Reduce Mortality during Heat Waves in Aged Population: A Retrospective Ecological Study . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Fausto Ciccacci, Massimo Leone, Stefano Orlando, Sandro Petrolati, Giovanni Guidotti, Noorjehan Abdul Majid, Victor Tamba Tolno, JeanBaptiste Sagno, Darlington Thole, Fabio Massimo Corsi, et al. (2021). Pandemics and Burden of Stroke and Epilepsy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Experience from a Longstanding Health Programme . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Fausto Ciccacci, Massimo Leone, Stefano Orlando, Sandro Petrolati, Giovanni Guidotti, Noorjehan Abdul Majid, Victor Tamba Tolno, JeanBaptiste Sagno, Darlington Thole, Fabio Massimo Corsi, et al. (2021). Pandemics and Burden of Stroke and Epilepsy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Experience from a Longstanding Health Programme . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Fausto Ciccacci, Stefano Orlando, Ilaria Palla, Isotta Triulzi, Darlington Thole, Hawa Mamary Sangaré, Maria Cristina Marazzi, Karin Nielsen-Saines, Giuseppe Turchetti, Leonardo Palombi(2021). Improving Treatment Adherence and Retention of HIV-Positive Women Through Behavioral Change Interventions Aimed at Their Male Partners: Protocol for a Prospective, Controlled Before-and-After Study . JMIR Research Protocols. {JMIR} Publications Inc.
Fausto Ciccacci, Benjamin Welu, Harrison Ndoi, Irene Karea, Stefano Orlando, Davide Brambilla, Kenneth Munene, Piero Giglio, Brenda Opanga, Aiban Ronoh, et al.(2021). High Sensitivity C-Reaction Protein in HIV care: tuberculosis diagnosis and short-term mortality in a cohort of Kenyan HIV patients in the DREAM program . International Journal of Infectious Diseases. Elsevier {BV}
Fausto Ciccacci, Stefania Moramarco, Laura Morciano, Luca Morucci, Mario Messinese, Paola Gualtieri, Mariachiara Carestia, Stefano Orlando, Ersilia Buonomo, Jacopo Maria Legramante, et al. (2020). Epidemiology of Hypoalbuminemia in Hospitalized Patients: A Clinical Matter or an Emerging Public Health Problem? . Nutrients.
Fausto Ciccacci, Graciela Andrei, Francesca Lucaroni, Roberto Latagliata, Laura Morciano, Elisa Mondlane, Moises Balama, Dyna Tembo, Jane Gondwe, Stefano Orlando, et al.(2020). Hematologic alterations and early mortality in a cohort of HIV positive African patients . PLOS ONE. 15. (11). p. e0242068. Public Library of Science ({PLoS})
Fausto Ciccacci, Stefania Moramarco, Laura Morciano, Luca Morucci, Mario Messinese, Paola Gualtieri, Mariachiara Carestia, Stefano Orlando, Ersilia Buonomo, Jacopo Maria Legramante, et al. (2020). Epidemiology of Hypoalbuminemia in Hospitalized Patients: A Clinical Matter or an Emerging Public Health Problem? . Nutrients.
Fausto Ciccacci(2020). Hematologic alterations and early mortality in a cohort of HIV positive African patients . protocols.io.
(2019). IgG abnormalities in HIV-positive Malawian women initiating ART during pregnancy persist after 24 months of treatment . International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
(2019). Non communicable diseases burden and risk factors in a cohort of HIV+ elderly patients in Malawi . AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses.
Leone, M., Palombi, L., Guidotti, G., Ciccacci, F., Lunghi, R., Orlando, S., Nurja, M.A., Sangare, M.H., Marazzi, C.M.(2019). What headache services in sub-Saharan Africa? The DREAM program as possible model . Cephalalgia.
Ciccacci, F., Floridia, M., Bernardini, R., Sidumo, Z., Mugunhe, R.J., Andreotti, M., Passanduca, A., Magid, N.A., Orlando, S., Mattei, M., et al.(2019). Plasma levels of CRP, neopterin and IP-10 in HIV-infected individuals with and without pulmonary tuberculosis . Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases. 16.
Orlando, S., Triulzi, I., Ciccacci, F., Palla, I., Palombi, L., Marazzi, M.C., Giuliano, M., Floridia, M., Mancinelli, S., Mutemba, E., et al.(2018). Delayed diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis in HIV+ patients in Mozambique: A cost-effectiveness analysis of screening protocols based on four symptom screening, smear microscopy, urine LAM test and Xpert MTB/RIF . PLoS ONE. 13. (7).
Baroncelli, S., Galluzzo, C.M., Liotta, G., Andreotti, M., Ciccacci, F., Mancinelli, S., Tolno, V.T., Gondwe, J., Amici, R., Marazzi, M.C., et al.(2018). Soluble CD14 levels in plasma and breastmilk of Malawian HIV+ women: Lack of association with morbidity and mortality in their exposed infants . American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 79. (3).
Ciccacci, C., Politi, C., Mancinelli, S., Ciccacci, F., Lucaroni, F., Novelli, G., Marazzi, M.C., Palombi, L., Borgiani, P.(2018). A multivariate genetic analysis confirms rs5010528 in the human leucocyte antigen-C locus as a significant contributor to Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis susceptibility in a Mozambique HIV population treated with nevirapine . Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 73. (8). p. 2137-2140.
Giuliano, M., Pirillo, M.F., Liotta, G., Andreotti, M., Floridia, M., Ciccacci, F., Jere, H., Sagno, J.-B., Amici, R., Mancinelli, S., et al.(2017). Cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA load in breast milk of human immunodeficiency virus-positive women and infant CMV infection acquisition are not reduced with long-term antiretroviral therapy . Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 23. (7). p. 491-492.
Giuliano, M., Pirillo, M.F., Liotta, G., Andreotti, M., Jere, H., Sagno, J.-B., Ciccacci, F., Amici, R., Marazzi, M.C., Vella, S., et al.(2017). High CMV IgG antibody levels are associated to a lower CD4+ RESPONSE to antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected women . Journal of Clinical Virology. 96. p. 17-19.
Floridia, M., Ciccacci, F., Andreotti, M., Hassane, A., Sidumo, Z., Magid, N.A., Sotomane, H., David, M., Mutemba, E., Cebola, J., et al.(2017). Tuberculosis Case Finding with Combined Rapid Point-of-Care Assays (Xpert MTB/RIF and Determine TB LAM) in HIV-Positive Individuals Starting Antiretroviral Therapy in Mozambique . Clinical Infectious Diseases. 65. (11). p. 1878-1883.
Altan, A.M.D., Taafo, F., Fopa, F., Buonomo, E., Marazzi, M.C., Nielsen-Saines, K., Orlando, S., Scarcella, P., Ciccacci, F., Mancinelli, S., et al.(2016). An assessment of option b implementation for the prevention of mother to child transmission in dschang, cameroon: Results from the dream (drug resource enhancement against aids and malnutrition) cohort . Pan African Medical Journal. 23.
Erba, F., Brambilla, D., Ceffa, S., Ciccacci, F., Luhanga, R., Sidumo, Z., Palombi, L., Mancinelli, S., Marazzi, M.C., Andreotti, M., et al.(2015). Measurement of viral load by the automated Abbott real-time HIV-1 assay using dried blood spots collected and processed in Malawi and Mozambique . South African Medical Journal. 105. (12). p. 1036-1038.
Marazzi, M.C., De Luca, S., Palombi, L., Scarcella, P., Ciccacci, F., Ceffa, S., Nielsen-Saines, K., De Luca, A., Mancinelli, S., Gennaro, E., et al.(2014). Predictors of adverse outcomes in HIV-1-infected children receiving combination antiretroviral treatment: results from a DREAM cohort in sub-Saharan Africa . The Pediatric infectious disease journal. 33. (3). p. 295-300.
Liotta, G., Mancinelli, S., Nielsen-Saines, K., Gennaro, E., Scarcella, P., Magid, N.A., Germano, P., Jere, H., Guidotti, G., Buonomo, E., et al.(2013). Erratum: Reduction of maternal mortality with highly active antiretroviral therapy in a large cohort of hiv-infected pregnant women in malawi and mozambique (PLoS ONE (2013) 8 (8)) . PLoS ONE. 8. (8).
Liotta, G., Mancinelli, S., Nielsen-Saines, K., Gennaro, E., Scarcella, P., Magid, N.A., Germano, P., Jere, H., Guidotti, G., Buonomo, E., et al.(2013). Reduction of maternal mortality with highly active antiretroviral therapy in a large cohort of HIV-infected pregnant women in Malawi and Mozambique . PloS one. 8. (8).
OTHER
Fausto Ciccacci, Stefano Orlando, Ilaria Palla, Isotta Triulzi, Darlington Thole, Hawa Mamary Sangaré, Maria Cristina Marazzi, Karin Nielsen-Saines, Giuseppe Turchetti, Leonardo Palombi(2020). Improving Treatment Adherence and Retention of HIV-Positive Women Through Behavioral Change Interventions Aimed at Their Male Partners: Protocol for a Prospective, Controlled Before-and-After Study (Preprint) . {JMIR} Publications Inc.
BOOK CHAPTER
(2018). DREAM Centre Remote Telemonitoring . TELe-Health.
(2018). From on the Field Training to E-Learning . TELe-Health.
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