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Conference on Health in the Mediterranean Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union

Rome

Ministry of Health Conference Centre

27-28 October 2014

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DAY 1

9,30-13,30

Welcoming and Introduction

Daniela Rodorigo, Italian Ministry of Health (MoH)

John Ryan, Directorate General for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO)

Enrico Granara, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA)

Agis Tsouros, World Health Organization (WHO) EURO

Foad Aodi, Associazione medici di origine straniera in Italia (AMSI)

Session 1

Presentation of the Mediterranean Projects in the field of Public Health

promoted and funded by the Italian MoH

Introduced and Moderated by Pasqualino Rossi, Italian MoH

Presentation by project leaders

Nereo Segnan, A.O. Città della Salute e della Scienza TO: NCDs (Non

Communicable Diseases) Projects

Silvia Declich, Istituto Superiore di Sanità – CNESPS: CDs (Communicable

Diseases) Projects

Alessandro Nanni Costa, Centro Nazionale Trapianti / Marwan Masri of Lebanon

MTN:

The MTN (Mediterranean Transplant Network) Project

Marina Bagni, Italian Ministry of Health FORE-Med: Animal Health Research Foresight for the Mediterranean

Stefano Cinotti, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia

Romagna: Cooperation Italy – Libya: Technical assistance and capacity building to

diagnostic and surveillance programme on FMD control.

Georges Saliba, Union for the Mediterranean(UfM) / Andreas Ullrich, World

Health Organization, Geneva: UfM Mediterranean Projects: the way forward

Giancarlo Belluzzi, Italian MoH: Participation of the neighborhood countries in

EFSA and Member states project

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Coffee break

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Session 2

International Health Regulations

Introduced and Moderated by: Ranieri Guerra, Italian MoH

Presentation of main issues

Paola Testori Coggi, DG SANCO: EU action on IHR – Decision 1082 /2013:

intersectoral cooperation, link with international cooperation including GHSA

agenda

Implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005): opportunities

and challenges in putting strategies into practice

Daniel Lins Menucci, WHO Headquarter/Lyons: Perspectives from the European

Region of WHO

Jaouad Mahjour, WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region: Perspectives from

the Eastern Mediterranean Region of WHO

Implementation of the IHR (2005)

Michael Gdalevich, Israel MoH: Criticalities and solutions - 1

Silvia Bino, AL Focal point: Criticalities and solutions - 2

Loredana Vellucci, Italian MoH: The Italian experience

Maria Grazia Dente, ISS: Fostering IHR implementation: the contribution of the

EPISOUTH and CELESTE studies

General discussion

Conclusions

Rapporteur: Giuseppe Ruocco, Italian MoH

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Session 3

Antimicrobial Resistance

Introduced and moderated by: Athanassios Tsakris, University of Athens


John F. Ryan, DG SANCO: Key Issues and presentation of the AMR Action Plan at

UE level (including AMR/HAI)

Jaouad Mahjour, WHO EMRO: The issue of AMR in the EMRO Region

Danilo Lo Fo Wong, WHO EURO: The WHO European action plan on AMR

Nicola Petrosillo, Istituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani:

Italian initiatives against AMR

Antonio Battisti, Head Animal Health Diagnostic Unit - National Reference

Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance: The “One health” approach: the veterinary

perspective

Maria Luisa Moro, Agenzia Sanitaria e Sociale Regionale Emilia-Romagna

“Cooperating to fight antimicrobial resistance”

Discussion

Michael Borg, Department of Infection Prevention & Control, Mater Dei

Hospital, Malta

Murat Akova, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

(ESCMID), Hacettepe University, Department of Infectious Disease, Ankara

Mario Poljak, University of Ljubljana, SLO

Marina Bagni, Italian MoH

Conclusions

Rapporteur: Marc Sprenger, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

(ECDC)

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13,30 - 14,30 Lunch

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14,30-16,00

Session 4

Lifestyles

Introduced and moderated by: Egita Pole, Latvian MoH


Gauden Galea, Division of Non communicable Diseases and Life-course at WHO-

EURO: Common nutrition challenges for the Mediterranean region

John F. Ryan, DG SANCO: The EU approach(es) to Nutrition and the

Mediterranean region

Franco Sassi, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD):

The economic burden of NCD in the Mediterranean Region

Daniela Galeone, Italian MoH: The Italian Experience – Guadagnare salute/PNP

Discussion

Jafaar Heikel, International University of Casablanca,

Riccardo Lampariello, Global Education and Training Initiative (GETI) Union for

International Cancer Control (UICC)

Giuseppe Gorini, Istituto per lo studio e la prevenzione oncologica di Firenze (ISPO)

Other discussant

Conclusions

Rapporteur: Roberto Bertollini, WHO Representative to the European Union

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Coffee break

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16,00- 18,00

Session 5

Health and Migration

Introduced and moderated by Karoline Fernandez de la Hoz, General Secretariat for

Health & Consumers Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equity


Santino Severoni, WHO EURO: Public Health Aspects of Migration in the WHO

European Region: Strengthening the health sector capacity to manage large influxes of

migrants.

Marc Sprenger, ECDC: Migrant health and key infectious diseases in the EU/EEA:

Key issues

Isabel de la Mata, DG SANCO: Migrants and health in the EU

Ranieri Guerra, Italian MoH: The Italian response: “Mare Nostrum” and other

Initiatives

Francesco Bongiorno, Sicilia Region: Preparedness and response at local level

Concetta Mirisola, Italian National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty

(NIHMP)

Davide Mosca, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Geneva: Logistics

and assistance. The needs for migrants

Jenny Kremastinou, Hellenic Center for Disease Control & Prevention: The Greek

experience

Stefano Campostrini, University Ca' Foscari Venice: Health promotion and migrants'

health: some thoughts from the italian system passi

Discussion

Beatriz Padilla, University of Minho, Portugal

Pierre Verbeeren, Doctors of the World Belgium

Ursula Trummer, Center for Health and Migration

Conclusions

Rapporteur: Aldo Morrone, IFO

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DAY 2

Moderated by: Paolo Russo (La Stampa)

10,00- 13,00

Welcoming and Introduction

Beatrice Lorenzin, Italian MoH

Tonio Borg, DG SANCO

Szuzanna Jakab, WHO EURO

Ala Alwan, WHO EMRO

Fathallah Sijilmassi, UfM

Roundtable 1

International Health Regulation

Introduction and opening statement Italian Minister of Health

Presentation of highlights

Rapporteur Giuseppe Ruocco

Discussion Ministers/Heads of Delegations

Conclusions

Italian Minister of Health

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Coffee break

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Roundtable 2

Health and Migration



Rapporteur Aldo Morrone


Conclusions


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13,00 - 14,00 Lunch

14,00- 17,00

Roundtable 3

Lifestyles

Introduction and opening statement Italian Minister of Health / Moderator: Ala Alwan


Rapporteur Roberto Bertollini


Conclusions


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Coffee break

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Roundtable 4

Antimicrobial Resistance



Rapporteur Marc Sprenger


Conclusions


Closing remarks and presentation of the outcomes by the Italian Minister of

Health

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WHO IS WHO

Akova Murat, President ESCMID - Professor of Medicine Hacettepe University School of Medicine

Department of Infectious Disease, Turkey

Aodi Foad, President of Amsi (Associazione medici di Origine straniera in Italia dal 1999), Italy

Bagni Marina, General Secretariat, European Research coordination of the IZS (Istituti Zooprofilattici

Sperimentali) network, MoH, Italy

Battisti Antonio, Head Animal Health Diagnostic Unit - National Reference Laboratory for

Antimicrobial Resistance, Italy

Belluzzi Giancarlo, Head of UVAC Emilia Romagna, MoH, Italy

Bertollini Roberto, Chief Scientist and WHO Representative to the European Union, WHO

Bino Silvia, Head of Control of Infectious Diseases Department, Institute of Public Health, Albania

Bongiorno Francesco, Officer Director, Regione Sicilia, Italy

Borg Michael, Head of Department of Infection Prevention & Control, Mater Dei, Malta

Campostrini Stefano, Professor of Social Statistics Dean of the Ca' Foscari Graduate School,

University Ca' Foscari, Italy

Cinotti Stefano, Director General, IZSLER, Italy

De la Mata Isabel, Principal Adviser for Public Health, DG SANCO, EC

Declich Silvia, Head of Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases Unit, National Centre for

Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy

Dente Maria Grazia, Senior researcher, Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases Unit, National

Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy

Fernandez de la Hoz Karoline, Manager of the International Technical Coordination Unit of the

General Secretariat for health & consumers, MoH, Spain

Galea Gauden, Director of the Division of Non communicable Diseases and Life-course, WHO EURO

Galeone Daniela, Head of Unit 2 – Planning and Control, Secretariat General, MoH, Italy

Gdalevich Michael, MD, MPH, MoH, Israel

Gorini Giuseppe, Chief of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Health Department, ISPO, Italy

Granara Enrico, Min.Pl. Coordinator for Euro-Mediterranean multilateral activities, MFA, Italy

Guerra Ranieri, Director General, MoH, Italy

Heikel Jafaar, Professor of medicine, International University of Casablanca, Morocco

Kremastinou Jenny, President, Hellenic HCDC

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Lampariello Riccardo, Head of GETI and UICC, Switzerland

Lo Fo Wong Danilo, Senior adviser, AMR Control of Antimicrobial Resistance, WHO/Copenhagen

Mahjour Jaouad, Director Programme Management, WHO Office for the Eastern Mediterranean,

WHO

Masri Marwan, President, MTN, Lebanon

Menucci Daniel Lins, Technical Officer, IHR Capacity Assessment, Development & Maintenance,

WHO/Headquarters/Lyons

Mirisola Concetta, Director General, NIHMP, Italy

Moro Maria Luisa, Head of Infective Risk Area, Agenzia Sanitaria e Sociale Regionale Emilia-

Romagna, Italy

Morrone Aldo, Director, Dept. For Tropical Dermatology, Istituto S. Gallicano Roma

Mosca Davide, Director Health Division IOM, Geneva,

Nanni Costa Alessandro, Director General of Centro Nazionale Trapianti, Italy

Padilla Beatriz, Professor of the University of Minho, Portugal

Petrosillo Nicola, Chief of the Department of Infectious Diseases , INMI, Italy

Pole Egita, Under-Secretary of State for Health, MoH, Latvia

Poljak Mario, Professor of Microbiology Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of

Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Rodorigo Daniela, Director General, MoH, Italy

Rossi Pasqualino, Head of Unit 4 – Relations with EU, CoE and OECD, Directorate General for

Communication and European and International Relations, MoH, Italy

Ruocco Giuseppe, Director General, MoH, Italy

Ryan John F., Director for Public Health, DG SANCO, EC

Saliba George, Ambassador, Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, UfM

Sassi Franco, Senior Health Economist, Health Division, Directorate for Employment, Labour and

Social Affairs, OECD

Segnan Nereo, Director of Department “Interaz. Prevenzione Secondaria dei Tumori”, Azienda

Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza, Italy

Severoni Santino, Coordinator Public Health and Migration at WHO Regional Office for Europe,

Sprenger Marc, Director of ECDC, Sweden

Testori Coggi Paola, Director General in the Direct orate-General for Health and Consumers, DG

SANCO, EC

Trummer Ursula, Director of Center for Health and Migration, Austria

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Tsakris Athanassios, Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Athens, Medical School

Tsouros Agis, Director of the Division of Policy and Governance for Health and Well-being, WHO

EURO

Ullrich Andras, Medical Officer Cancer Control, Department of Chronic Diseases and Health

Promotion, WHO Headquarter, Geneva

Vellucci Loredana, Head of Unit 3- USMAF Coordination Office, DG for Health Prevention, MoH,

Italy

Verbeeren Pierre, General Director of Doctors of the World, Belgium

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