Davide FORTIN

Davide is a postdoc researcher co-financed from Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) involved in cost-effectiveness analysis of various non-invasive methods for the diagnose of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). He obtained his PhD at Pantheon-Sorbonne University exploring the economics of cannabis regulation and focusing on its integration into the European Health System and the emergence of the market for cannabidiol. Expert with United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime and lecturer at the University of Padua on economic aspects related to medical cannabis programmes.

Adjunct Lecturer at University of Padua:
Medical Cannabis: from theory to practice
Cannabinology 

Adjunct Lecturer at ISSPAM Summer School:
METHODS AND CHALLENGES IN PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES

Articles

Fortin, D., Di Beo, V., Carrieri, P., & Barré, T. (2023). Therapeutic Use and Other Reasons to Consume Cannabidiol: Insight from the French and Italian Contexts. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1-11.
Sznitman S., Potter G., Grigg J., Granville A., Hakkarainen P., Decorte T., Lenton S., Fortin D. Bear D., Kirtadze I., Jauffret-Roustide M., Barratt M., & Sevigny. E.  (in press) “Are Cannabis Use Problems Comparable Across Individuals Using for Recreational and Medical Purposes? An International Cross-Sectional Study of Individuals Who Use Self-Grown Cannabis”. International Journal of Drug Policy.
Lazarus, J.V., et al. (2023) "A global research priority agenda to advance public health responses to fatty liver disease." Journal of hepatology 79.3, 618-634.
Lazarus, J.V., et al. (2023) "A global action agenda for turning the tide on fatty liver disease." Hepatology, 10.
Pezzullo, A.M., Lampertico, P., Picchio, C.A., Villani, L., Pascucci, D., Pastorino, R., Di Pumpo, M., Van Selm, L., Boudou, D., Fortin, D. and Kalamitsis, G. (2023). Multi-country Viral Hepatitis COMmunity Screening, Vaccination, and Care (VH-COMSAVAC): Project outline. Population Medicine, 5(Supplement).
Fortin, D. (2022) “CSC + 2: can the CSC model be a buffer against market distortions?”. In M. Pardal (Eds.), The Cannabis Social Clubs. London: Routledge.
Fortin, D., Marcellin, F., Carrieri, P., Mancini, J., & Barré, T. (2022). Medical cannabis: toward a new policy and health model for an ancient medicine. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 904291.
Fortin, D., Di Beo, V., Massin, S., Bisiou, Y., Carrieri, P., & Barré, T. (2022). A “Good” Smoke? The Off-Label Use of Cannabidiol to Reduce Cannabis Use. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 401.
Casanova, C., Ramier, C., Fortin, D., Carrieri, P., Mancini, J. and Barré, T. (2022). Cannabidiol use and perceptions in France: a national survey. BMC Public Health, 22(1), pp.1-13.
Fortin, D., Di Beo, V., Massin, S., Bisiou, Y., Carrieri, P., & Barré, T. (2021). Reasons for using cannabidiol: a cross-sectional study of French cannabidiol users. Journal of Cannabis Research, 3, 1-5.
Fortin, D., Massin, S. (2020) "Medical cannabis: thinking out of the box of the healthcare system." Journal de gestion et d'Economie de la santé 2, 110-118.
Fortin, D., Liotti, MP., & Milan, S. (2020). L’economia dell’infiorescenza: Cannabis light e altre opportunità di reddito per la filiera agricola italiana. In P. Ranalli (Ed.), La canapa: l’attualità di una pianta di grande tradizione in Italia (pp. 67-106). Edagricole.
Fortin, D. (2019) Per la cannabis un business senza crisi. Economia & management: la rivista della Scuola di Direzione Aziendale dell’Università L. Bocconi, 2, 51-56. 

PhD Dissertation
Cannabis Use Interrelations: Lessons in Market Design

Book Chapters
Fortin, Davide. "Can the Cannabis Social Club model be a buffer against market distortions?." The Cannabis Social Club (2022).
Fortin, D., Liotti, MP., & Milan, S. (2020). L’economia dell’infiorescenza: Cannabis light e altre opportunità di reddito per la filiera agricola italiana. In P. Ranalli (Eds.), La canapa: l’attualità di una pianta di grande tradizione in Italia (pp. 67-106). Bologna: Edagricole.
Fortin, Davide. L’economia della cannabis e le sue implicazioni politiche: evidenze dal Colorado. Canapa in Tesi (Vol.1), edited by Davide Gentile, ad est dell’equatore, October 2016, pp.124-147.