TF1
Global Health and Covid-19
Policy areas:
- Equitable access and production of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines to confront Covid 19 globally and beyond
- Rapid alert of infectious pathogens and surveillance of human population for an effective control of outbreaks
- Investment and reform of the health systems to guarantee their resilience
- Prevention and preparedness based on the One health approach addressing threats at the human-animal-environment interface
- Access to education during health emergencies and improved health literacy of citizens at all level
- Impact of pandemic on inequalities
- Gender equity to achieve better health for all
- Regional cooperation as a bridge between global and national levels in addressing health threats
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TF1 Policy Briefs – Global Health and Covid-19
Paola Testori Coggi
Testori Coggi is Special Advisor of the Italian Technological Cluster of Life Sciences Alisei. She has done her career within the European Commission where she has been Director General for Health and Consumer until 2014: among her achievements, the new legislation on cross-border healthcare and serious cross-border threats to health, the promotion of health as an investment for growth, the creation of the European Food Safety Authority. After having returned to Italy, she has been President of the Price and Reimbursement Committee of the Italian Medicines Agency until September 2018. She teaches EU Health policy at the Master Studies of the European College of Parma. Testori Coggi is a biologist with a Master degree in Ecotoxicology; she received a Doctor Honoris Causa in Veterinary Medicine and she was awarded the Cross of Merit of Official of the Italian Republic.Tito Boeri
Tito Boeri is full professor of economics at Bocconi University. He was Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, where he is currently Senior Visiting Professor. After obtaining his Ph.D. in Economics from New York University, he was senior economist at the OECD from 1987 to 1996. He was also consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, The European Commission, the ILO, and the Italian Government. From 2015 to 2019, he was President of the Italian Social Security administration. He is Scientific Advisor of the Ing. Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation and he is research fellow at CEPR, CEP-LSE, IZA, Netspar and Igier-Bocconi. He is the founder of the economic policy watchdog website www.lavoce.info, in the editorial board of www.voxeu.org, and the Scientific Director of the Festival of Economics in Trento.
Maria Chiara Carrozza
MoS degree in Physics from University of Pisa in 1990, and Ph.D. in Engineering at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy in 1994. She is Full Professor of Industrial Bioengineering at The BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. She has been Rector of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna from 2007 to 2013, Member of the Italian Parliament from 2013 to 2018, and Minister of Education, University and Research of Italian Republic from 2013 to 2014. She is currently Scientific Director of Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation in Milan, Italy, a network of Research hospitals dedicated to Rehabilitation Medicine. Since 2015 she serves in the Board of Directors of the Piaggio SpA. She is Founding Partner of IUVO Srl, a start-up active in the field of Wearable Robotics. She is President of Italian Scientific Association of Biomedical Engineers.
Enrico Giovannini
Enrico Giovannini is full professor of Economic statistics and Sustainable development at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, of Sustainable development at LUISS and at the National School of Administration (SNA). He is the co-founder and director of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development, a coalition of more than 240 organisations established to implement in Italy the UN 2030 Agenda 2030. He was Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician of the OECD (2001-2009), President of the Italian Statistical Institute (2009-2013) and Minister of Labour and Social Policies (2013-2014). In October 2014, the President of the Italian Republic made him “Cavaliere di Gran Croce al Merito della Repubblica”, the highest ranking honour of the Italian Republic. He is the author of more than 100 articles and six books on statistical and economic topics.
Paolo Magri
Paolo Magri is Executive Vice President of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) and Professor of International Relations at Bocconi University. He is member of the Strategic Committee of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, member of the Europe Policy Group of the World Economic Forum (Davos) and member of the Board of Directors of the Italy-China Foundation. He is also member of the Scientific Committees of the Elcano Royal Institute, the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU) and of the Military Centerfor Strategic Studies (Ce.Mi.S.S.). He is a regular speaker, writer and commentator to diverse media outlet on global issues, US foreign policy, Iran and Middle East. Previously, he served as Programme Director to the UN Secretariat in New York and, up to 2005, as Director of International Affairs at Bocconi University in Milan.
Franco Bruni
Franco Bruni is ISPI Vice President and Co-Head, Centre on Europe and Global Governance. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics of Bocconi University. Italian member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, he has co-chaired the task force International Financial Architecture in the T20 since 2018. He has been Vice President and President of the Société Européenne de Recherches Financières. Holds degrees from Bocconi and MIT. He has been visiting professor in several international universities, including NYU, Fudan and, Getulio Vargas. He authored many publications in the fields of Macroeconomics, European Economics, International Banking and Finance. He has been an independent member of the Board of Saipem(1998-2005), Unicredit Banca Mobiliare (2000-2007), Pirelli (2005-2014), Mediaset (2015-18).
John F. Ryan
John F. Ryan is Director of the Commission Public Health directorate since September 2016. Previously, in the same department, he was the Head of Unit responsible for a number of public health policy areas (cancer, drugs, promotion, monitoring, infectious diseases). He was a Commission representative on the Board of the EU Lisbon Drugs Agency, and is currently the Commission representative on the Board of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. He also had the charge of dealing with tobacco control issues.
Current priorities include the development of an EU cancer plan, antimicrobial resistance, vaccination policies, and the negotiation of financial instruments to support health, including research. He has previously worked on the completion of the internal market, and on international trade negotiations. He is also an official of the Irish civil service (on leave). He is a fellow of the UK faculty of public health.
Agnes Binagwaho
Professor Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PHD currently resides in Rwanda and is the Vice Chancellor and co-founder of the University of Global Health Equity, an initiative of Partners in Health. She is a Rwandan pediatrician, who returned to Rwanda in the late 1990s. She worked for 20 years in the public health sector in Rwanda, first as a clinician in public hospitals for four years. Afterwards, she worked in various high-level government positions between 2002 and 2016, serving first as the Executive Secretary of Rwanda’s National AIDS Control Commission, then as the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, and lastly as the Minister of Health for five years.Professor Binagwaho also serves as a Senior Advisor to the Director General of the WHO, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, and Professor of Pediatrics at UGHE. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. She has published over 190 peer-reviewed articles and was named among the 100 Most Influential African Women for 2020.
Sandro Galea
Sandro Galea, a physician, epidemiologist, and author, is dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He previously held academic and leadership positions at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature, and is a regular contributor to a range of public media, about the social causes of health, mental health, and the consequences of trauma. He has been listed as one of the most widely cited scholars in the social sciences. He is chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Galea has received several lifetime achievement awards. Galea holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto, graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.Stefano Vella
Dr Stefano Vella has been the Director of the National Center for Global Health at the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) and President of the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA). He served also as
Director of the Department of Pharmacology and Research Director, of the Laboratory of Virology at the Italian National Institute of Health. Currently he is Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Catholic University of Rome (UCSC), Associate Professor of Clinical Research Methodology at the University of Tor Vergata and Research Associate in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at the Karolinska Institutet of Stockholm. He is Senior Consultant at UNITAID in Geneva and Vice President of Friends of the Global Fund (GFTAM).
Smita Srinivas
Professor Smita Srinivas is the India Lead for the 4-country Innovation for Cancer Care project and holds appointments with the Economics Department and Development Policy group at the Open University, UK, and at the National Centre for Biological Sciences-Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCBS-TIFR), India. She is an Honorary Professor at the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Public Policy at University College London. Prof. Srinivas is the 2021 AFEE Clarence E. Ayres Scholar (institutional economics) and the 2015 EAEPE biennial Myrdal Prize awardee (evolutionary economics/political economy) for the monograph Market Menagerie: Health and Development in Late Industrial States (Stanford University Press, 2012). She has over two decades of policy engagements and research on technological change, industry dynamics, and the microeconomics of innovation. She received a PhD from MIT in economic development and planning with a focus on microeconomics, and prior training in maths and physics. She has held full-time faculty, senior Fellow or Visiting appointments at the LSE, Columbia University, Harvard University, IISc, and think tanks such as ICRIER and CTIER. She is a frequent keynote speaker and grants awardee.
Paulo Marchiori Buss
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Eleonora Poli
Eleonora Poli is Senior fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), where she is working on democracy, institutions and economic governance in the EU and in the Western Balkans. Eleonora holds a PhD in International Political Economy from City University London. She has worked as consultant for a number of prominent international organisations and public institutions and she is author of “Antitrust Institutions and Policies in the Globalising Economy” as well as several book chapters, opinion pieces, articles and analysis on the EU political trends and economic policiesPascale Allotey
Professor Allotey is the Director of the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH). Prior to joining UNU, Prof. Allotey served as Professor of Public Health and Deputy Head of School (Research and Development) at the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University (Malaysia). She also was head of the Global Public Health unit and founding Associate Director of the South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO, Malaysia). Her previous experience includes Professor of Race, Diversity and Professional Practice, Brunel University (UK); Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the Key Centre for Women’s Health, WHO Collaborating Centre for Women’s Health, University of Melbourne; and Lecturer in the Tropical Health Program, Australian Centre for International and Tropic Disease and Nutrition, University of Queensland. She is also a technical advisor on several WHO committees in Geneva.
