Dr Guido Sabatinelli

A public health physician by training with over 30 years of progressive experience at senior leadership positions in infectious and communicable diseases laboratory and applied research, surveillance and field epidemiology; strategy, policy and planning of health service delivery in normative and emergency/refugee settings; clinical and operational research; instruction of health sciences and over 50 peer-reviewed  publications. After 15 years in research and field epidemiology, joined WHO and served as Regional Adviser for Malaria in Eastern Mediterranean, and European Regions, WHO Representative in Sudan and most recently Director of Health Services for UNRWA, UN agency responsible for service provision to over 4 million refugees scattered over 4 countries in the greater Middle East. Medicine (MD), Italy; Diploma in Tropical Diseases, WHO/Rome