Georgia Kourlaba is an Assistant Professor of Research Methodology and Evidence-Based Practices in Faculty of Health Science, University of Peloponnese. Back in 2014, Georgia co-founded the non-profit civil partnership Collaborative Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research (CLEO) and she served as Managing Director/Associate Scientific Director till December 2020. CLEO focused on the design and implementation of patients’ safety programs, with a particular interest in control and prevention of healthcare associated infections. Moreover, in the past, Georgia has served as Academic Fellow in the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in Greece and as biostatistician/research fellow at the Dietetics and Nutritional Science Department of Harokopio University, at the National School of Public Health, and at the NKUA, gaining research experience in the design and statistical analysis of epidemiological studies, clinical trials and economic evaluation studies. The research she has conducted the last 15 years cover various therapeutic areas including oncology, rheumatology, cardiology, mental disorders, nutrition, dermatology, infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance etc. She has published over 150 papers in international scientific journals and has received a significant number of references to her work (h-index per googlescholar: 38). Moreover, she has served as a peer-reviewer for more than 15 international scientific journals.
She has been teaching “Research Methodology” and “Biostatistics” for more than 12 years in five Postgraduate Programs: “Sports & Health”, "Pediatric Infectious Diseases", "Clinical Pediatric & Nursing -Research", “General Pediatrics and Pediatric Subspecialties - Clinical Practice and Research” and “Development of new drugs: research, launch and access”, all organized by Medical School of NKUA. She earned her MSc in Biostatistics from the NKUA and her Ph.D. in Nutritional Epidemiology-Biostatistics from Harokopio University, in Athens, Greece.
Prevention and control of healthcare associated infections
Epidemiology and Prevention of chronic disease
Education and Health Promotion
Health technology assessment