MONTEIRO PIRES Sara
National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
- Sara is a senior researcher at the Risk-benefit Research Group of the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Head of PhD School at DTU Food.
- Her overall research goals are to improve risk management and decision-making in public health and food safety policy through data analysis, epidemiology, and a range of multidisciplinary approaches.
- Her research activities focus on applying health metrics and burden of disease models, and on quantitative risk and risk-benefit assessments to provide evidence for national, regional, and international public health policy.
- She is a member of the World Health Organization Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (WHO/FERG), where she is chair of the Source Attribution Task Force.
- Sara holds an MS degree in Veterinary Medicine and a PhD degree in Epidemiology.
Recent publications:
- De Matteu Monteiro C, Sousa B, Pires S, Vieira A. Involving Citizens in Foresight – The Missing Link. Eur J Public Health. 2025 Oct 27;35(4):ckaf161.357.
- De Matteu Monteiro C, Feliciano R, Membré JM, Monteiro Pires S, Thomsen ST, Marette S. Health impact assessment and cost‒benefit analysis: Exploring complementarities of methods to assess the impacts of regulations on food consumption. PLoS One. 2025 Jul 1;20(7):e0326946.
- Országh E, Monteiro CDM, Pires, SM., et al. Holistic risk assessments of food systems. Global Food Security. 2024; 43:100802.
- Matteu Monteiro C, Membré JM, Poulsen M, Thomsen ST, Pires SM. Risk-benefit assessment of foods and its role to inform policy decisions: outcome of an international workshop. Front Nutr. 2024 Sep 25;11:1458531.
- Pires SM, Jensen JD, Jakobsen L, Ethelberg S, Christensen T. Health and Economic Burden of Seven Foodborne Diseases in Denmark, 2019. Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2022 Sep;19(9):581-589.