Giuseppe Costa is Professor of Public Health at the Turin University Medical School and chair of the San Luigi Hospital Epidemiology Unit, and of the Regional Epidemiology Unit (ASL TO3). He is an epidemiologist and a public health physician, and his research specialties include social epidemiology, occupational epidemiology, and health systems and quality of care research. He has (co-)authored over 50 papers in international peer-reviewed scientific journals in the field of social epidemiology. He has coordinated several studies funded by the Italian Ministry of Health on health inequalities and has represented Italy in the main European scientific networks for comparing health inequalities.