Cinzia Brunelli

Senior Researcher in Palliative Care, Pain Therapy and Rehabilitation Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan

Coordinator, EUonQoL Project, Italy

Brunelli Cinzia is senior researcher at the Palliative Care, Pain Therapy and Rehabilitation Unit of the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori – Milano. Her research in patient-centred oncology care spans the following key areas: integration of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) into clinical workflows, HTA and health policy evaluation; patient empowerment through public and patient involvement (PPI) in research; and the optimisation of referral criteria for palliative care.
She has been principal investigator of the project “PATIENT VOICES Integration of Systematic Assessment of Patient Reported Outcomes within clinical oncology practice“ and “Telemedicine for outpatient palliative care during COVID-19 pandemics,” as well as co-PI of the project “Palliative care needs and prognostic factors assessment for appropriate referral to specialised palliative care services”, all funded by the Italian Ministry of Health. She was also WP leader of “Patient involvement area” in “CCE-DART : Building data-rich clinical trials” (https://cce-dart.com/), and PI of the EU-funded project “EUonQoL-Quality of Life in Oncology: measuring what matters for cancer patients and survivors in Europe”. (https://www.euonqol.eu/ ). She has been coordinating the OECI working group on Cancer Outcome Research for three years and is at present a member of the board for the AIOM Guidelines on Psychosocial Care for cancer Patients. She has co-authored more than 150 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals

Updated: July 2026