Paola De Castro

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Dr

Paola

De Castro

Italy

Area of expertise, interest, main activities...: 

gender equity in research

About you (please use English): 

Director of the Publishing Unit of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, the National Institute of Health in Italy (www.iss.it). Co-Chair of EASE Gender POlicy Committee Interests and activities Active supporter of science communication, open science, and health information literacy. She promotes and carries on multidisciplinary research, cooperation and training for public health, mainly focused on communication, dissemination and use of health care information addressed to different targets in Europe, Latin America, Africa. She takes part and organizes conferences, workshops, exhibitions, science festivals and training courses on general and specific health-related issues addressed to both researchers and the general public, including students. Main projects: Coordinator of the EU FP7 Project NECOBELAC (www.necobelac.eu, 2009-2012), a network of academic and research institutions in Europe and Latin America involved in research and training in scientific writing and open access publishing. Member of the Italian task force of the FP7 MedOAnet project (www.medoanet.eu, 2001-2013) in support of Open Access policies in Southern Europe; responsible of the Dissemination Unit of the Progetto Nazionale Amianto (National Asbestos Project) financed by the Italian Ministry of Health (2013-2014); responsible for training in communication within the CASA project in Ethiopia (2014 ongoing); responsible for projects of historical heritage in public health (history of public health; preservation of scientific instruments, oral memories, pictures). Memberships: Council member of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE, http://www.ease.org.uk/), and member of the EASE Gendre Policy Committee; country representative of HIFA2015 (Health Information for all by the year 2015 http://www.hifa2015.org/); member of the European Association of Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL www.eahil.eu); the Associazione Italiana Biblioteche (Italian Library Association, AIB www.aib.it); AISA (Italian Association for the Promotion of Open Science http://bfp.sp.unipi.it/aisa/about-aisa/.). Editorial boards: Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Eurosurveillance, European Science Editing, Open Journal of Bioresources, Revista CONAMED, Rare journal, Notiziario dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità, I beni storico scientifici dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Dispense per la Scuola, Rapporti ISTISAN, Istisan Congressi. Publications: A selected list of publications is available from: http://www.iss.it/site/attivita/ISSWEB_istituto/RicercaPersonale/dettaglio.asp?idAna=1070&lang=1

Scientific discipline: 

Social sciences, Interdisciplinary

Stakeholder group: 

Science stakeholders, Scientists & Researcher, Science academies, Publishers, editors, Journals, Opinion formers, media, Gender equality stakeholders, Gender in science offices and committees, Gender equality practitioners & advisers

Contact details

Spoken languages: 

English, British

Italian

Spanish

City: 

Rome

Street: 

via Luigi Chiala 130

ZIP: 

00139

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Would you like to form part of the GenPORT Gender Expert database?: 

Yes

Area of Gender Expertise: 

Gender

Country coverage: 

international (Europe, Africa, North and South America)

Skills and track record: 

Co-Chair of the Gender Policy Committee of the EuropeanAssociation of Science Editors. http://www.ease.org.uk/about-us/organisation-and-administration/gender-policy-committee