Adjunct Members
Mario C. Raviglione is full professor of global health, University of Milan, where he is coordinator of teaching and research in this new area, and he is co-founder of the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research in Health Science (MACH). He is honorary professor at Queen Mary University of London. In the past 2 years his research has focused on tuberculosis, COVID-19, and other global health issues. He created and directs the first and only masters course in global health offered in Italy, and the first such online course in Europe. He was director of the WHO Global Tuberculosis Program, Geneva (2003-2017), with an annual budget of about US $20 million, and a staff and network of international consultants of 70.
He earned a degree in medicine and surgery from the University of Turin, with a specialty in internal medicine, infectious disease, and AIDS at the Cabrini Medical Center, New York Medical College, New York, USA, and Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He has worked in over 50 countries around the world and was visiting professor at various universities, including Johns Hopkins, Harvard, McGill, Sydney, Geneva, Liverpool, Pavia, Modena and Reggio Emilia, and Brescia. His publications have been cited over 62,000 times(h-index 110). He numbers among the most often cited authors on tuberculosis and among the top 30 Italian scientists in epidemiology and medicine (Clinical Science, a Portland Press journal).