Pietro Renzi

Biographical profile

Born in San Marino on February 26, 1978. Lives and works in San Marino.

He graduated in 2005 in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Bologna with a degree thesis entitled "Cost model for DWDM optical networks" (Supervisor Prof.ssa Carla Raffaelli).

In 2013 he obtained a doctorate in Economic-Management Engineering at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Economic-Management Engineering of the University of the Republic of San Marino, with a thesis entitled "Impact of new technologies on the Supply Chain of large-scale retail trade" ( Supervisor Prof. Massimo Merlino).

From 2005 to 2013, he worked at the Industrial Design Degree Program at the University of the Republic of San Marino as an IT technician. During this time, he attended numerous advanced training courses in the implementation and administration of network and IT systems infrastructures.

From 2008 to 2009, he taught under Professor Andrea Gasparella in the Physics course for the Industrial Design degree program at the University of the Republic of San Marino. He also taught courses on computer literacy, cybersecurity, and green design at the same university.

Since 2013 he has been working as a professor of Information Processing Systems (ING-INF/05) at the Department of Economics, Science, Engineering and Design of the University of the Republic of San Marino.

At this same university he teaches the Statistics courses for the Management Engineering degree programme and the Computer Science and Statistics courses for the Civil Engineering degree programmes and for Construction and Land Management.

Since 2016 he has been a subject scholar for Social Statistics (SECS-S/05) of the Department of Economy, Society and Politics of the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” and since 2020 he has held the Social Statistics course for the Degree in Sociology and Social Work.

Since 2017, he has been an assistant to Prof. Alberto Franci for the Data Analysis course at the Master's Degree in Management Engineering.

Main publications

• Renzi, P., & Franci, A. (2026). Socio-economic determinants of health literacy among blood donors: A cross-sectional study in Italy. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 102560.
• Leone M, D'Uggento AM, Marin C, Renzi P, Sportelli S (2025). Assessing the determinants of health migration. In Methods and statistical analysis 2025 (pp. 123-133). Ernesto Toma.
• Renzi P, Franci A (2025). Health literacy among university students and their families in the Republic of San Marino: association with socioeconomic and health status determinants. Quality & Quantity, 1-23.
• Renzi P, Franci A (2024). The Measurement of Patients' Satisfaction as a Key Indicator of Quality of Life for the Elderly: Two Services Compared. Social Indicators Research, 1-22.
• Renzi P, Franci A (2023), The measurement of health inequalities. An application in the regional health authority in Italy, Social Indicators Research, 1-29
• Casarosa MAT, Zorzal RC, Rodrigues SFN, Renzi P, Franci A, da Silva Monteiro JC (2023). A desire to satisfy people's expectations and the new paper from the neurolinguistic educational program. Cuadernos De Educación Y Desarrollo, 15(3), 2891–2912. https://doi.org/10.55905/cuadv15n3-048
• Renzi P, Franci A (2021) EGIPSS model for the evaluation of performance in healthcare in ASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation – Book of short papers of the opening conference.
• Franci A, Renzi P (2021), Social determinants of health and inequality measures, Statistics & Applications, Life and Thought – Publications of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
• Renzi P, Franci A (2021) Health inequalities and social-health policies, Maggioli Editore, Santarcangelo di Romagna (RN)
• Renzi P, Franci A (2021) Frameworks and inequalities in healthcare: some applications in ASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation – Book of short papers of the opening conference. Edited by Bertaccini B., Fabbris L., Petrucci A., pp. 115-120
• Franci A, Renzi P, Gandy R (2019), Evaluating health performance and inequalities in the Italian region of Marche, British Journal of Healthcare Management, Sep 02, 2019-Volume 25, Issue 9, pp. 293–302, Mark Allen Group company
• Franci A, Renzi P (2019), Evaluating Health Performance and Inequalities in Marche region of Italy, Association for Applied Statistics (ASA) Conference 2019 – Statistics for Health and Well-being, pp. 109-112
• Franci A, Renzi P (2018), Performance in health systems and unequal health, Maggioli Editore, Santarcangelo di Romagna (RN)
• Franci A, Renzi P (2016), Performance evaluation in social and health services: an application, in Impresa Sanità, n 15 November 2016, pp. 15-33 (II part)
• Franci A, Renzi P (2016), Performance evaluation in social and health services: an application, in Impresa Sanità, n 14 September 2016, pp. 15-33 (Part I)
• Bertolini M, Bottani E, Rizzi A, Volpi A, Renzi P (2013), Shrinkage reduction in perishable food supply chain by means of an RFID-based FIFO management policy, International Journal of RF Technologies: Research and Applications, Vol. 5, Nos. 3-4, pp.123–136

Research interests

She focuses on issues and problems related to healthcare management systems, with a particular focus on the performance evaluation of social and healthcare services and the application of evaluation models (including the EGIPSS framework) to regional healthcare systems. A key area of ​​her research concerns the measurement and analysis of health inequalities, with applications at the level of Italian regional healthcare agencies, and the study of the social determinants of health. She also focuses on health literacy, with studies on university students and families, and its associations with socioeconomic and health status. Other areas of interest include measuring patient satisfaction as an indicator of quality of life, particularly in services for the elderly, and analyzing the determinants of healthcare migration.