Marica Ferri is the Head of the Support to Practice Sector at the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). She is responsible for the Scientific Programme for the European Drugs Summer School since 2015. She holds two Master´s degree, the first in Epidemiology (Catholic University of Rome, A. Gemelli) and the second in Systematic Reviewing of Scientific Literature in the Biomedical Field University of Milan/University of Oxford. and a PhD in International Public Health (Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Nova University, Lisbon). Since 1994 she has been working as a researcher and methodologist in the field of drug addiction and other medical disciplines.
She has been coordinating the Cochrane Drugs and Alcohol group during five years (1999–2004) and following this, she acted as a methodologist in the development of
several Guidelines at international, national and regional level. She coordinated the implementation phase of those guidelines, including training and assessment. . She taught Masters University courses at the University Statale of Milan, University Bocconi of Milan and Catholic University of Rome, A. Gemelli and at Telematic University of Rome (UNITELMA)
