Marcello Ferrada de Noli (born 25 July 1943) is a Swedish professor emeritus[1] of epidemiology,[2] and medicine doktor in psychiatry[3] (Ph.D. Karolinska Institute, Sweden).

[20] 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.

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".

[35] In an op-ed in Dagens Nyheter (2015), Ferrada de Noli advocated for Sweden to return being a neutral country "as it was in Olof Palme's times", and "resuming an active role in the work for peace and respect for human rights in the world".

[36] Ferrada de Noli has been referred to as one of the founders[37][38][39] of the Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile), MIR (1965), and co-author of the "Political-Military Thesis"[40][41][42][43][44][45] approved in the foundation congress.

[59] After the aborted MIR resistance to the military in Concepción ensuing the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, Ferrada de Noli was captured and held prisoner in Quiriquina Island.

[61] In a photo of the epoch in newspaper La Tercera, Ferrada de Noli appeared among prisoners described as "extremists that have attacked the military forces with fire weapons".

[68] After he wrote in DN that one risk factor for "utbrändhet" in women could be stress caused by a double working load, at the job and then at home –contradicting the notion of an advanced Swedish gender equality,[69] Minister Mona Sahlin commented that his thesis was "a bid insulting, to say the least".

It referred an interview where Ferrada de Noli stated that to be displeased with a job cannot be equated with a medical diagnosis,[71] and a new debate ensued in the Swedish media.

[72] In 1998, at that time professor in Norway, Ferrada de Noli requested the legal extradition of General Augusto Pinochet, to be judged in a European court on allegations of torture and war crimes.

[76] In 2011, via Jennifer Robinson, he submitted to the London Court deliberating the extradition of Assange, a testimony based on his investigation "Swedish Trial by Media".

[77] In 2012, Swedish Radio said in a broadcast that Ferrada de Noli has implicated "a social democratic feminist working together with 'arms-(exports) companies' trying to get Assange".

[81] In 2017, Ferrada de Noli elicited international controversy over his publications and statements questioning the evidence around allegations of gas attacks in Syria by government forces.

In December 2017, the Russian permanent representative to the UN submitted to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) an article by him in his magazine The Indicter, in which he alleged epidemiological bias in the report issued by the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism on the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack of April 2017 in Syria.

Ferrada de Noli contested the media criticism in the journal of the Swedish Medical Association Läkartidningen, claiming that SWEDHR is "absolutely independent".

Reporters Without Borders (RWB) called for its cancellation, arguing against an invitation to Ferrada de Noli to hold a keynote address, being "president of an organization that, according with our information, acts as a tool of Russian propaganda.

According to Dagens Nyheter, he would have declared in an interview done with him by the newspaper April 2, 2018, that the Skripal incident could be a case of False flag in anticipating an eventual confrontation sought by the United Kingdom against Russia.

[119] Italian media reported that Ferrada de Noli was to donate, at his own expense, 740 doses of Sputnik vaccine to the survived elderly in the Lombardy town of San Giovanni Bianco,[120] one epicentre of the pandemic in Bergamo province 2020.