Medical Doctor, specialist in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Associate professor of general and applied hygiene at Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences.

Co-founder and scientific director og the National Observatory on Antimicrobial Resistance (ONsAR) and scientific coordinator of the Italian Institute for Planetary Health (IIPH).

Author of more than 50 scientific papers including publications indexed in Medline, books, book chapters and other scientific contributions, mainly in the fields of Public Health, Epidemiology and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, Vaccinations and Health Services Research.