Mario Raviglione

Mario C.B. Raviglione has been Full Professor of Global Health at the University of Milan, Italy, since 2018 and co-director of the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Health Science (MACH). Between 1991 and 2017, he worked at WHO in Geneva where he was Director of the Global Tuberculosis (TB) Programme (2003-2017) and responsible for global policies and standards on TB care, control and research. As a WHO official he worked with more than 50 countries worldwide. He graduated from Turin University, and trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases and AIDS at Cabrini Medical Centre, New York, and Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. He has authored >350 publications on TB, AIDS, infectious diseases, COVID-19 and global health, and additional book chapters, guidelines and policy documents. He edited and published three books on TB (Informa Healthcare, NY, USA, 2006 and 2010; Springer, 2021) and recently “Global Health Essentials (Springer, 2023). His h-index and citations are, respectively, 119 and >68,000. He received several international awards for his work in global health and tuberculosis.