Miriam Levi, MD, PhD, is a medical epidemiologist at the Local Health Authority Tuscany Centre. She has been involved in several national and international projects on the epidemiology and prevention of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. She has been a collaborator in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study since 2015 and is a member of the Italian GBD Initiative. She has been a partner in the HEAT-SHIELD Project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, and as part of the WORKLIMATE project, funded by the Italian National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work, she has been assessing the impact of heat stress on workers’ health and productivity and has been developing intervention strategies to prevent heat stress in the workplace. She was a contract professor at the University of Florence in the academic years 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 and taught General and Applied Hygiene for the degree courses in Biomedical Laboratory Techniques (2017-2018) and Dentistry and Dental Prosthesis (2016-2017 and 2017-2018). She is the author of over 80 publications in international and national scientific journals, as well as book chapters, and over 70 publications in abstracts, and carries out reviews for international scientific journals. She has participated as a speaker in national and international conferences, seminars and workshops.