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I am currently a Senior Fellow of Global Health at Johns Hopkins University – SAIS Europe, Courtesy Professor and Director Emeritus of the One Health Center of Excellence at the University of Florida. I graduated cum laude in veterinary medicine in 1989 at the University of Perugia and continued to train earning a specialization and a PhD in Virology and Public Health from the Universities of Pisa and Padua respectively.

I have dedicated much of my career to animal viral infections that can be transmitted to humans, which cause poverty and food security issues such as Avian Influenza, Newcastle Disease and Rabies. I have also worked with international organizations to develop strategies for the prevention and management of health emergencies caused by potentially pandemic viruses. In 2006, I championed a paradigm shift  sharing of genetic information of viruses that affect humans and that originate from an animal reservoir. Today, as a result of this initiative, numerous data s Ilaria capua virologa.