Dr Anna Maria Conte

Dr Anna Maria Conte is Head of the Statistics and GIS Unit of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale” (IZSAM) – Teramo, Italy, a Veterinary Public Health Institute serving the Italian Ministry of Health. She leads the activities required by the National and International Reference Centers operating at IZSAM (the National Reference Centre for Epidemiology, WOAH Collaborating Centre for Epidemiology, modelling and surveillance and the FAO Reference Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology).

Her research focuses on epidemiological analytical methods and spatial epidemiology of major animal infectious diseases, including zoonoses, and on the identification of factors influencing the spread and persistence of vector borne diseases. Her team develops web-based GIS providing near-real time surveillance and modeling tools to share and analyze animal disease data and information.

Her research over the last five years is on the integration of Earth Observation and deep learning methods to produce early warning systems for preventing and controlling, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.