Programme
Friday, October 10 2025
Università degli Studi di Teramo
Via Renato Balzarini, 1
9.00 a.m. | Thesis Room 10
SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
The event is accredited in the national Continuing Medical Education (ECM) system. 4,2 are the training credits for the following professional figures: surgeon, veterinary surgeon, biologist, chemist, pharmacist, biomedical laboratory health technician
Opening
Nicola D’Alterio
Director General, IZS Teramo
Chair (Introduction and Moderation)
Alessio Lorusso
Head, Virology Unit, IZS Teramo
Speakers
Paolo Vineis
Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Imperial College London
Health without borders: climate change, social inequalities, and the molecular signatures of risk
Antonio Giordano
Professor of Molecular Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia and Professor of Anatomy and Pathological Histology, University of Siena
Cancer and the environment: molecular pathways, prevention, and public health in a changing world
Domenico Galetta
Director of Medical Thoracic Oncology, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari
Lung cancer and proximity oncology: a new vision for patient-centered cancer care
Dan Bebber
Professor of Ecology, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Tracking the shifting boundaries of plant disease under global environmental and socio-economic change
David Hayman
Percival Carmine Chair in Epidemiology and Public Health, Professor of Infectious Disease Ecolog, Massey University, New Zealand
Pathogen emergence at the human–wildlife interface: ecology, spillover, and public health
Lindomar Pena
Virologist and Researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Brazil
Lessons from Brazil on epidemic preparedness and translational virology across humans, animals, and the environment
Università degli Studi di Teramo
Via Renato Balzarini, 1
9.00 a.m. | Meeting Room Magna
MEETING WITH THE SCHOOLS
Andrea Vico
Journalist and Science Communicator
4.30 p.m. | Meeting Room Magna
Opening Session
Nicola D’Alterio
Director General, IZS Teramo
Exploring new geographies
Welcome remarks by Institutional Representatives
5.30 p.m. | Meeting Room Magna
KEYNOTE SPEECH
David Quammen
Essayist
Science is (still) capable of surprising us
6.00 p.m. | Meeting Room Magna
OHA TALKS
Maxim Samson
Geographer, DePaul University, Chicago
The invisible boundaries
Dan Bebber
Professor of Ecology, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
The borders we do not defend
Moderator
Francesca Parisella
Journalist, Rai
6.30 p.m. | Meeting Room Magna
Speech
Mustapha Ferjani
Minister of Health, Tunisia
6.45 p.m. | Meeting Room Magna
ONE HEALTH AWARD
The cerimony
Moderator
Francesca Parisella
Journalist, Rai
Saturday, October 11 2025
Università degli Studi di Teramo
Via Renato Balzarini, 1
11.30 a.m. | Meeting Room Magna
ROUND TABLE
Cooperation Strategy
Moderator
Edoardo Vigna
Journalist, Corriere della Sera
Speakers
Paolo Vineis
Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Imperial College London
Nancy Aburto
Vice Director Food and Nutrition Division, FAO
Marco Rusconi
Director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation
Nicola D’Alterio
Director General, IZS Teramo
12.15 a.m. | Meeting Room Magna
OHA TALK
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Founder and President of One Health Trust – Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University
State of the world’s antibiotics in 2025
12.30 a.m. | Meeting Room Magna
ROUND TABLE
At the frontiers of research and prevention
Speakers
Antonio Giordano
Professor of Molecular Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia and Professor of Anatomy and Pathological Histology, University of Siena
Domenico Galetta
Director of Medical Thoracic Oncology, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari
Vanni Scarso
Business Unit Director Livestock, MSD Animal Health
Moderator
Edoardo Vigna
Journalist, Corriere della Sera
4.30 p.m. | Meeting Room Magna
OHA REPORTAGE
Monica Maggioni
Journalist
Virus hunters
5.00 p.m. | Meeting Room Magna
ROUND TABLE
Ecosystems, epidemics and cooperation
Speakers
David Hayman
Percival Carmine Chair in Epidemiology and Public Health, Professor of Infectious Disease Ecolog, Massey University, New Zealand
Lindomar Pena
Virologist and Researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Brazil
Moderator
Giorgia Cardinaletti
Journalist, Rai
5.30 p.m. | Meeting Room Magna
OHA TALKS
Gaël Giraud
Economist, mathematician, theologian and Jesuit
Beginning with water
Alfonso Celotto
Constitutionalist, Professor of Constitutional Law, Roma Tre University
Written in the Constitution
Anna Badkhen
Writer and journalist
The borders we cross
Moderator
Giorgia Cardinaletti
Journalist, Rai
6.15 p.m. | Meeting Room Magna
CONCLUSIONS
Stefano Bertuzzi
CEO, American Society for Microbiology
Building the future
7.00 p.m. | Meeting Room Magna
SHOW
Franco e Livio Arminio
Give way to the trees
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