Alessandra Grotta

Alessandra Grotta is a Researcher at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, specializing in social epidemiology with a focus on disability-related health inequalities. Her research emphasizes informing policymakers and healthcare professionals to improve living conditions for people with disabilities. She collaborates on projects analyzing family members’ health in chronic illness contexts and long-term bereavement effects, leveraging Swedish national registers. Key collaborations include the RELINK program on life-course epidemiology and projects with Umeå University’s disability research team.

Her teaching includes doctoral-level biostatistics courses at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, as well as multilevel modeling at the University of Milan-Bicocca. Grotta’s work spans cardiovascular health, bereavement outcomes, and caregiving impacts. She leads the CANDIS project on cancer screening disparities in disabled populations and contributes to ORCHID and MISMATCH studies on child welfare and maternity care inequities.

Her articles explore bidirectional workplace bullying effects, cardiovascular health mortality links, and post-parental death mental health trajectories. Grotta collaborates with the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) on accessibility advocacy and serves as a guest researcher in interdisciplinary disability studies.