Concetta Tania Di Iorio, LL.M, MPH

Strada Vicinale Colle Cervone 40, 65125 Pescara (PE), ITALY
Ph./Fax: +39 085 471 01 19; email:ct.diiorio@serectrix.eu; website:www.serectrix.eu

A graduate in Law from the University of Bologna with a thesis in Commercial Law on the “Cooperation and Specialization Agreements among enterprises according to European Union Antitrust Law” (grade: 105/110), Tania qualifies as solicitor in 1995 and after three years of legal practice in Pescara, Italy, as barrister in 1998.

In her role of solo practitioner, she has worked in Italy until 2000, when she founded Serectrix as a private entrepreneur and moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she graduated at the Master of Public Health at Monash University in 2003. In the same year, she gained Australian nationality and worked as a research associate and legal expert for the TIDE group at the Monash Institute of Health Services Research.

Since 2004, Dr. Di Iorio has regularly served many different high level institutions at the national and international level. In particular, she has regularly supported the European Commission in a variety of tasks, particularly as an Ethics Independent Evaluator employed by DG-RESEARCH in the EU HORIZON programme.

Between 2004-2005, she worked for the Regional Agency of the Tuscany Region, in the field of frail elderly and the University of Perugia, for the preparation of EU proposals.

Between 2004-2008, Tania was involved in "Best Information through Regional Outcomes" (BIRO), as the leader of workpackage WP5: “Privacy Impact Assessment”, including Serectrix as subcontractor of the University of Perugia. The WP was concluded successfully in 2009, with the subsequent publication of the method in a scientific paper published by the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Between 2008-2012, Tania was the legal expert of the EU project "EUropean Best Information through Regional Outcomes in Diabetes (EUBIROD), a sequel project to BIRO in which Serectrix continued its work as an associated partner. The project was successfully concluded with a scientific paper published by the European Journal of Public Health in 2013. In the same project, Tania was also part of the Faculty of the BIRO Academy at the Dasman Centre for the Research and Treatment in Kuwait, where she was also involved in the activity for the implementation of the national diabetes register.

Between 2013-2015, she has been also Member of the OECD Advisory Expert Group on Health Information Infrastructure, for the development of “Council Recommendation on Privacy-Protective Uses of Personal Health data”, and Legal-financial supervisor of the EPN2020-RI project, sponsored by European Commission (Horizon 2020) for IRSPS, University G. D'Annunzio, Pescara, Italy.

Between 2015-2020, Dr.Di Iorio has been the project manager of the multi-million EU IMI Project on the safety of vaccines "BIOVACSAFE".

Between 2015-2017, she has been also an Expert Leader of the Task on “Privacy Performance and Ethics Assessment” in the BRIDGE-Health project, sponsored by the European Commission (CHAFEA). The project culminated with the International Workshop of Privacy Expert Leaders, held in September 2017 at Nicosia, Cyprus. The activity produced a specialised paper, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, in which Tania describes the novel method of "Privacy and Ethics Impact and Performance Assessment" (PEIPA)

She currently continues her work as an independent expert for the European Commission. She is also project manager of the EU project Fly-Radar run by the University D'Annunzio.

For more details, please refer to the attached Full CV.