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Noël C Barengo
Summary
Noël C. Barengo was born and raised in Switzerland where he started his academic training. He studied at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), the Karolinska Institute (Sweden) and University of Eastern Finland where he graduated as MD in 1999. Thereafter he completed a Master in Public Health (2001) and a PhD in Public Health (2006) at the University of Eastern Finland (former University of Kuopio). He was given the title of lecturer in public health at the University of Helsinki in Finland in 2009. He has worked as independent consultant in non-communicable diseases for the Pan-American Health Organization, the ASPIRE center in Qatar, the Ministries of Health of Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay. At the present moment he works as Assistant Professor at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University in the USA.
Dr. Barengo has 16 years teaching experience in epidemiology, research methods and public health. Among others, he has been teaching biostatistics, public health, health promotion, global health, epidemiology and research methods in pre- and post-graduated programs at several Universities in Europe and Latin America. Dr. Barengo´s primary research interests are prevention and control of diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. He has published almost 80 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and three book chapters. His H index is 27 and by 2019 his publications have received close to 5000 citations.
Diabetes & Endocrinology Epidemiology Global Health Public Health