Maria Giulia Marini
- Italian epidemiologist and counselor, internationally recognized as one of the leading experts in the field of Narrative Medicine.
- She is President of the European Narrative Medicine Society (EUNAMES), directs the Narrative Medicine healthcare research center for ISTUD in Milan, and teaches Narrative Medicine at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
- For over twenty years, she has actively promoted the integration of Narrative Medicine and Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM).
- Her research explores how the narratives of patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals can create a sustainable ecosystem of care, in dialogue with the rigor of scientific medicine.
- She is considered among the most influential authors worldwide in the field of Narrative Medicine in terms of number of publications, scientific impact, and educational and outreach activities.
- She is the author of Narrative Medicine: Bridging the Gap Between Evidence Based Care and Medical Humanities (Springer, 2016; translated into Italian, Chinese, and Korean), Languages of Care in Narrative Medicine: Words, Space and Time in the Healthcare Ecosystem (Springer, 2019), and Nonviolent Communication and Narrative Medicine for Promoting Sustainable Health (Springer, 2024), a work that proposes a new relational paradigm in the world of care, based on listening, compassion, and shared storytelling.
Nationality: Italy
Scientific areas: Oral medicine