Chiara Carrara

Personal information          

Name: Chiara Carrara

Date of birth: 17/09/1998

Nationality: Italian

Languages: Italian (native), English (professional), Spanish (professional), Portuguese (basic), French (basic), Greek (basic). 

Tel: +39 3459666336

E-Mail: c.carrara@unibas.ch - chiara.carrara@swisstph.ch

Employment

09.2025 – Present      PhD position: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.

Key activities: data collection, data management and data analysis, development of the OH-SES framework conceptually for STHs, modelling, fieldwork research, scoping review, grants application, teaching at University of Basel.

11.2024 – 08.2025      PhD position: Centre of African Studies, Basel, Switzerland.

Key activities: learning and applying anthropological and sociological methodologies, preliminary fieldwork in Zanzibar, conferences, teaching at University of Basel - course title "Armed conflict and health: intersections". 

10.2022 – 10.2024      Biologist and nutritionist, Istituto Helvetico Sanders, Bergamo, Italy. Key activities: designing balanced and sustainable diets for clinical patients; research and development collaborator for the implementation of new projects in the field of nutrition; training for key personnel.

Selected research projects

03.2022 – 10.2022      “Analysis of the intestinal microbiome of mothers and children in Pemba and Unguja Islands (Zanzibar) to study the associations among nutritional habits, gut microbiome, and parasites”, funding: Erasmus plus Project IT02- KA107-077890 for covering the mobility of researchers.

Selected publications

Manuscript ID: nutrients-2946240. Title: “Association between food or nutrients and gut microbiota in healthy and helminth-infected women of reproductive age from Zanzibar, Tanzania.” Authors: Nguélé AT, Carrara C, Mozzicafreddo M, Chen H, Piersanti A, Salum SS, Ali SM, Miceli C. 

Manuscript ID: nutrients-3329283. Title: “Interplay between Helminth Infections, Malnutrition, and Gut Microbiota in Children and Mothers from Pemba, Tanzania: Potential of Microbiota-Directed Interventions.” Authors: Aristide Toussaint Nguélé, Matteo Mozzicafreddo, Chiara Carrara, Angela Piersanti, Salum Seif Salum, Said M Ali, Cristina Miceli *.

Activities

03.2022 – 06.2022     Erasmus+ mobility for thesis – SUZA, PHL-Ivo de Carneri, Zanzibar.

02.2021 - 08.2021     Erasmus program for study scholarship - Department of Biochemistry, Agricultural University of Athens,                                  Greece.

02.2019 – 08.2019     Erasmus program for study and thesis - Department of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Seville.

Education 

10.2024 – Present     PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Basel, Switzerland.

10.2020 – 10.2022    Master in Biological sciences, University of Camerino, Italy.

10.2017 – 07.2020    Bachelor in Biology, University of Camerino, Italy.