Maddalena Buffoli

MED/42 - Hygiene and public health

Associate Professor in the field of Hygiene and Public Health – MED/42 for the courses of “Urban Health“, “Environmental Hygiene” and “Technologies for Building and Environmental Hygiene” for the School of Architecture, urban planning, construction engineering (AUIC) of Politecnico di Milano. Architect and PhD in “Planning, Maintenance, Redevelopment of building and urban systems.

Lecturer at the “City and Health” course of the School of Specialization in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at University of Milan, at the “Research, design and health. strategies and methodologies to improve health promotion and disease prevention in contemporary built environment” course at the PhD School of Dept. ABC of Politecnico di Milano and at several post-graduated masters and courses, such as the Post-graduate Master of II level in “Planning, programming and design of hospital and socio-sanitary systems” of Politecnico di Milano, University of Milan, and Catholic University of the “Sacred Heart” in Rome.

Member of the Design&Health Lab. of Dept. ABC of Politecnico di Milano, the strategic research working group “Complex Construction” of Politecnico di Milano, as well as Lombard Academy of Public Health, the “Building Hygiene” research group of the Italian Society of Hygiene (SItI) and the “Urban Health” working group of European Public Health Association (EUPHA).

Currently Member of: the PhD Committee of Dept. ABC; the Scientific Commission of the Dept. ABC; the Admission Commission to the Master’s Degree Course in “Architecture-Architecture Built Environment Interiors” and the Commission for the Cyclical Review of the Degree Course in “Architectural Design” of the School of Architecture, urban planning, construction engineering (AUIC) of Politecnico di Milano.

Since 2000 participant to numerous research, consultancy and feasibility studies of Politecnico di Milano concerning Health and Environmental Sustainability at the building and urban scales with particular reference to the planning and design of architectures for health. Regarding these issues, author of over 200 articles in specialized journals and speaker in numerous national and international conferences.

SCOPUS 56 papers; H-index 25 and 1142 citations (updated Feb 2023).
WOS: 35 documents.