Ms Andreea Badache

Andreea Badache is a public health professional and epidemiologist with expertise in data-driven research, policy analysis, and global health initiatives. During her PhD in Medical Sciences from Örebro University, she specialized in disability, ageing, and epidemiology. Additionally, she holds an MSc in Rehabilitation Sciences from KU Leuven, Belgium, and an MSc in Healthcare Policy, Innovation, and Management from Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Andreea has previously worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), as well as a researcher in Sweden and Romania and visiting researcher at Tokyo University and National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. She has contributed to various research projects on non-communicable diseases, social determinants of health, risk factors, sensory impairments, health systems, epidemiology, and ageing, focusing on systematic reviews and meta-analyses, epidemiological research, health policy development, and health systems strengthening. 

Starting in February 2025, Andreea will join the WHO Centre for Health Development in Kobe, Japan, where she will work on an umbrella review of published evaluations of strategies to improve recruitment, retention, working conditions, and skills among the long-term care workforce.

• Officer, A., Prina, M., Badache, A., Pautex, S., Broers, B., & Gnanapragasam, S. (2023, June 22). Factors, in the second half of life, that are associated with attitudes to death and dying: a scoping review. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/R34BY 
• Badache AC, Mäki-Torkko E, Widen S, Fors S. A descriptive epidemiological study of the prevalence of self-reported sensory difficulties by age group, sex, education, disability, and migration status in Sweden in 2020. BMC Public Health. 2024 Oct 10;24(1):2773. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-20217-1. 
• Officer A, Pautex S, Badache A, Broers B, Prina M. Systematic review on attitudes towards death and dying in adults 50 years and older living in countries with community transmission of COVID-19. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2024 Dec;127:105573. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2024.105573. Epub 2024 Jul 7. PMID: 39032313.
• Mack M, Badache A, Erden A, Giannaki CD, Haider S, Kaltsatou A, et al. (2024) Chronic exercise effects on overall depression severity and distinct depressive symptoms in older adults: A protocol of a systematic and meta-analytic review. PLoS ONE 19(5): e0297348. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297348 
• Ballesteros, S., Audifren, M., Badache, A. et al. Effects of chronic physical exercise on executive functions and episodic memory in clinical and healthy older adult populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. Syst Rev 13, 98 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-024-02517-0 
• Badache, A.C., Rehnberg, J., Mäki-Torkko, E., Widen S., Fors S., Longitudinal associations between sensory and cognitive functioning in adults 60 years or older in Sweden and Denmark. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2024.105362 
• Chen-Xu J, Varga O, Mahrouseh N, Eikemo TA, Grad DA, Wyper GMA, Badache A, Balaj M, Charalampous P, Economou M, Haagsma JA, Haneef R, Mechili EA, Unim B, von der Lippe E, Baravelli CM. Subnational inequalities in years of life lost and associations with socioeconomic factors in pre-pandemic Europe, 2009-19: an ecological study. Lancet Public Health. 2024 Mar;9(3):e166-e177. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00004-5
• Baravelli CM, Chen-Xu J, Varga O, Grad DA, Mahrouseh N, Charalampous P, Unim B, Economou M, Badache AC, Haneef R. Subnational inequalities in YLLs and associated socioeconomic factors: a disease burden study. Eur J Public Health. 2023 Oct 24;33(Suppl 2):ckad160.361. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.361.
• Mahrouseh, N., Chen-Xu, J., Charalampous, P., Eikemo, T., Varga, O., Grad, D., Badache, A., Mechili, E., Haneef, R., Haagsma, J., Von der Lippe, E., Wyper, G., and Baravelli, C. (2023). Premature mortality and levels of inequality in years of life lost across 296 regions of 31 european countries in 2019: A burden of disease study. Population Medicine, 5(Supplement), A825. https://doi.org/10.18332/popmed/164502 
• Badache, A. C., Mäki-Torkko, E., Widen, S., & Fors, S. (2022). Why are old-age disabilities decreasing in Sweden and Denmark? Evidence on the contribution of cognition, education, and sensory functions. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Volume 78, Issue 3, March 2023, Pages 483–495, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac118 
• Badache, A., Hachem, H., & Mäki-Torkko, E. (2021). The perspectives of successful ageing among older adults aged 75 : A systematic review with a narrative synthesis of mixed studies. Ageing and Society, 1-37. doi:10.1017/S0144686X21001070
• Baxter, R., Jemberie, W. B., Li, X., Naseer, M., Pauelsen, M., Shebehe, J., Viklund, E. W. E., Xia, X., Zulka, L. E., & Badache, A. (2021). COVID-19: Opportunities for interdisciplinary research to improve care for older people in Sweden. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 49(1), 29–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/1403494820969544 
• Fujiyama H, Hinder MR, Barzideh A, Van de Vijver C, Badache AC, Manrique-C MN, Reissig P, Zhang X, Levin O, Summers JJ, Swinnen SP. Preconditioning tDCS facilitates subsequent tDCS effect on skill acquisition in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging. 2017 Mar;51:31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.11.012.