Marcello Vittorio Ferrada de Noli (born 25 July 1943) is a Swedish professor emeritusDagens Nyheter, Stockholm, published 17 July 2008 a biographical article authored by DN journalist Per Mortensen, on occasion of De Noli's 65th birthday. In a description of his academic background, the publication added: "Professor emeritus of public-health and invited professor of international health at Gävle; medicine doktor at Karolinska Institute, where he also chairs a research group in international and cross-cultural injury epidemiology. Research-educated in social medicine at Harvard Medical School." (Swedish, original: "Professor emeritus i folkhälsovetenskap, gästprofessor i internationell hälsa i Gävle, medicine doktor i psykiatri vid Karolinska institutet, där han också leder en forskargrupp i internationell och transkulturell skadeepidemiologi. Forkskarutbildad vid Harvard Medical School i socialmedicin." of epidemiology,Professorships and research areas listed in Biographical Lexicon of Public Health. Ed. Prof Izet Masic (2015). Library of Biomedical Publications. Book 49. . Page 108. and medicine doktor in psychiatryAs reported in references to Ferrada Noli's education in the Swedish Medical Association journal Läkartidningen and mainstream Swedish newspapers, i.e. Svenska Dagbladet , Dagens Nyheter, Uppsala Nya Tidning , Göteborgs-Posten , Aftonbladet , etc. (PhD Karolinska Institute, Sweden). He was research fellow and lecturer at Harvard Medical School,Dagens Nyheter (DN), published 17 July 2008. "The professor has navigated in dangerous oceans" (Swedish: "Professorn har seglat i farliga farvatten"). and was later head of the research group of International and Cross-Cultural Injury Epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute until 2009.Karolinska Institute Registrar's Office. Document 1217/2007-2335.Karolinska Institute, Department of Social Medicine, 2009. Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention: Research, Education and Policy Development. In page 5 it reads: "Chair of the International and Cross-cultural Injury Epidemiology Research Group: Prof. Marcello Ferrada-Noli, Ph.D. in Psychiatry (K.I.), Postdoctoral in Social Medicine (Harvard)".Dagens Nyheter, 17 July 2008. "The professor has navigated in dangerous oceans" (Swedish: "Professorn har seglat i farliga farvatten"). Ferrada de Noli is known for his investigations on suicidal behaviour associated with severe trauma. He is the founder of the NGO Swedish Doctors for Human Rights (SWEDHR). He is also an author, and painting artist.
Academic career Studies: Bachillerato universitario (Chile) in philosophy, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso, 1962. University of Concepción, 1962–1968.El Sur, "Egresan Alumnos de Filosofía", published 10 January 1969. Profesor de Filosofía degree, University of Chile, 1969.La Defensa (newspaper), Arica, Chile, 25 April 1970. "Especial significado tendrá acto académico de Universidad de Chile" Licentiate in Medical Sciences (psychiatry), 1994, and PhD in psychiatry in 1996, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.Karolinska Institute. Registrar's Office. Document 1217/2007-2335. Postdoctoral in Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1997–1998.Dagbladet Arbejderen, 4/26-2017.
Ferrada de Noli was full professor of psychology at the University of Chile, Arica, 1970La Defensa (newspaper), Arica, Chile, 25 April 1970, "Especial significado tendrá acto académico de Universidad de Chile" and an invited professor at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico, 1972.Certificate issued by Lic. Juan Sandoval Trujillo, Director of Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico, with copy to the Rector of the University of Concepción, Chile, Prof Edgardo Enríquez Frödden, 15 May 1972, describing the academic assignment. At the time of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état he was full professor of psychosocial methods at the University of Concepción.Italian newspaper L'Eco di Bergamo in an article published 20 January 2019, affirms that Ferrada de Noli "at the time of Pinochet's 1973 Chilean coup d'état was professor at the University of Concepción" ("Durante il golpe di Pinochet lei era docente all'Università di Conception."). Article by Emanuele Roncalli in "Primo piano – Storia & personagi", L'Eco di Bergamo, 20 January 2019, page 42
Ferrada de Noli held various research positions at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, from assistant researcher at the Social and Forensic Psychiatry Department (1987) to Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section (1997).Certificate issued 27 November 1996 by the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute (Institutionen för klinisk neurovetenskap), stating: "Med dr Marcello Ferrada de Noli is senior research scientist, full-time, at the department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section". professor of health psychology, University of Tromsø, Norway 1997.Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet reports 1 November 1998 in the article "Pinochet politianmeldt I Norge", that Ferrada Noli was professor at the University of Tromsø ("professor ved Universitetet I Tromsø"). Certificate issued 6 October 1997 by the Institute of Psychology, Tromsø University. It states: "(Ferrada-Noli) is employed as professor of health psychology at the Institute of Psychology". He qualified as a full professor of health promotion, and as a professor of cross-cultural psychology, at the University of Bergen, Norway, 1999,Evaluated by the Scientific Committee appointed by the University of Bergen. The Committee: Head, Prof. Lillemor Hallberg (Professor i Public Health Sciences, Sweden), Prof. Geisela Geisler, and Prof. Maurice Mittelmark (Norway). Academic CVCertificate issued 20 March 2000 by Prof Britt-Marie Drottz Sjöberg, Head of the Section of Social and Community Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, stating: "(Prof. Marcello Ferrada-Noli) was in November 1999 evaluated by a scientific committee appointed by the University of Bergen, found qualified for a professorship in cross-cultural Psychology." and was thereafter invited professor of cross-cultural psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, 2000.Id. In Sweden, he was full professor of public-health epidemiology at the University of Gävle, position shared at Karolinska Institute, Department of Social Medicine 2002–2007.As reported by Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, 14 April 2005. Invited professor of International Health, University of Gävle, 2007.See ref. professor emeritus (title), 2007.Diploma signed by Prof Lennart Ölund, Department Head, University of Gävle, 10 December 2007. It reads: "The University of Gävle conferred on Prof. Dr. Marcello Ferrada-Noli the title of distinction Professor Emeritus, after his retirement as professor of public health sciences specialty epidemiology, and in value of meritorious academic services." He was named affiliate professor at the medical faculty, University of Chile, 2006.Document issued by the dean of the medical faculty, University of Chile, Prof. Jorge Las Heras Bonetto, 14 March 2006.
His work has been cited in about 2390 scientific articles and books, In the journal Clinical Psychology Review (2009), three authors wrote that Ferrada de Noli and co-workers had found a new pathway in the pathogenesis of suicidal behaviour associated with PTSD. The review concluded that Ferrada de Noli and his co-workers "demonstrated that among refugees with PTSD, major depression was not substantially associated with heightened levels of suicidal behaviour". Meaning that the path to severe suicide attempts in PTSD victims was not mediated by depression – as it was thought before – but linked directly to PTSD. The discovery indicated modifications in prevention and treatment of suicidal behaviour. Another finding was significant correlations between specific methods in suicidal behavior and methods used in torture inflicted to prisoners later diagnosed with PTSD. In the book Suicide and the Holocaust, David Lester referred to that finding, and summarized: "for example those subjected to water torture thought of using drowning".David Lester (2005) Suicide and the Holocaust. Nova Science Publishers, New York. . In section "Suicidal Behaviour in Refugees and After Torture", page 57: "Ferrada-Noli found that the method of suicide used or planned was similar to the method of torture with which the victim has been brutalized". He established ethnicity as significant risk factor for suicidal deaths in Sweden,Sweden's National Center for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental-Ill Health, "Suicide research in Sweden from the early 1990s until 2014". See chronology in publications referred to risks factor for suicide in immigrants and adoptees, in section "Epidemiology and register studies" – and found statistically significant markers associating Socioeconomic Status (SES) and suicidal behaviour in Sweden.Sweden's National Center for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental-Ill Health, "Suicide research in Sweden from the early 1990s until 2014". Chronology of publications on SES-subject in Reference list. The findings are found in a series published by Psychological Reports: a) ; b) ; c) ; d) ; and Ferrada De Noli's findings were discussed in an article by David Lester et al. (), and later supported in an investigation by Jan-Otto Ottosson (2015), ("Psychiatry in Sweden") ("Psykiatrin i Sverige"), Natur & Kultur, Stockholm, 2005, 2015. - In chapter "Suicide – the main death cause in psychiatry" (Självmord –Psykiatrins stora dödsorsak) Prof. Ottosson describes six findings by Ferrada de Noli –two psychiatric and four epidemiological– regarding suicidal behavior. From 2004 to 2007 and 2007–2012 he was appointed by the Swedish government alternate scientific member of the Swedish Central Ethical Review Board Etikprövningsnämnd for research.Certificate issued by the "Regionala Etiksprovsnämnden I Uppsala" 12 February 2007. It describes appointment done 2004 by the Swedish government as alternate scientific member of the Swedish Central Ethical Review Board for research (Etikprövningsnämnd). Appointment renewed 2007.
Political activism
The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (2008) described Ferrada de Noli as "left-liberal",Dagens Nyheter. ("The professors has sailed in dangerous waters"). "Professorn har seglat i farliga farvatten. 23 July 2008. and newspaper Ystads Allehanda (2013) writes, "Left-liberal. But his conservative past continued to chase him".Ystads Allehanda. ("Prisoners camp to nice hall"). "Fångläger till finsal". 25 July 2013. In newspaper Expressen (2018) Ferrada de Noli declared he participated as "social-libertarian" in the foundation of the guerrilla organization MIR in 1965, besides having been briefly active in the Swedish Liberal Party during the 1980s – which at the time had a social-liberal profile in Swedish politics.Expressen, 3 January 2018.