VI Seminario di studio. Salute globale e scenari attuali. Nuovi contributi di ricerca. Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Roma, 16 aprile 2015. Riassunti

There is a growing need for clear scientific evidence that can support health policies. This applies to a
number of issues including diagnostic protocols applied to communicable diseases, therapeutic approaches,
epidemiological studies, the definition and identification of the health determinants (with particular reference to
situations of severe inequality), environmental contamination, the relationship between disease and rights as
well as the relationship between disease and law. The objective of the PhD Program in Infectious Diseases,
Microbiology and Health Sciences is precisely to provide moments of intellectual growth, aimed at the trai
ning of new researchers in the field of infectious diseases, microbiology, parasitology, public health and social
medicine, in forensic medicine and forensic sciences. The objective of the sixth meeting with graduate
students, part of the collaboration between the Italian National Institute of Health, and the
Sapienza University of Rome, is precisely to provide a frame as unitary as possible to a complex picture of basic and applied
research within the objectives of the doctorate