General and Applied Hygiene (MEDS-24/B)

The General and Applied Hygiene section of the University Department of Life Sciences and Public Health carries out training, research and assistance activities in the area of health protection and promotion, in particular of the community.
This area requires multidisciplinary skills ranging from general medical and biological sciences to epidemiology and health statistics, from governance of health systems and services to health technology assessment, from environmental safety and infection control to ethics and research on personalized medicine.
The need for the interdisciplinary method is, therefore, fundamental: Public Health cannot consider the problems except in a global vision, without however renouncing the necessary specific and sectoral insights.
To this end, it makes use of a network of collaborations with academic and non-academic structures, at national and international level.

The main areas of interest and related managers are:

• Health Service Research, Health Policy, Governance and Leadership (Value-based healthcare and governance of health systems and services, Health Management and organizational innovation in healthcare, Health technology Assessment, Quality of health care, Monitoring of clinical-care pathways)
• Environmental surveillance and infection control (Food safety, Hospital hygiene, Prevention of nosocomial infections and infectious risk in healthcare workers)
• Support for the definition of health policies in the field of personalized medicine/prevention at national and European level
• Planetary health and research on environment and health
• Vaccine hesitancy and vaccination strategies
• Epidemiology and prevention of chronic diseases (cancer and cardiovascular diseases in particular)
• Meta-search (research on how research is conducted and interpreted)

There are numerous national and international research projects coordinated and participated by the professors of the Section.