Istituto Superiore di Sanità

Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Agency overview
Formed	April 21, 1934
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
Employees	1,808
Agency executives	Silvio Brusaferro, Straordinary commissioner of ISS; Angelo Del Favero, Director General of ISS;
Parent agency	Ministero della Salute
Website	www.iss.it

The Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Institute of Health,^[1] literally 'Higher Health Institute'), also ISS, is an Italian public institution that, as the leading technical-scientific body of the Italian National Health Service (Servizio Sanitario Nazionale), performs research, trials, control, counseling, documentation and training for public health. The Institute is under the supervision of the Ministero della Salute (Ministry of Health).

History

Headquarters of ISS in Rome.

The official opening of the ISS, called Istituto di Sanità Pubblica (Institute of Public Health), took place on April 21, 1934. The construction of the main building in Rome, designed by architect Giuseppe Amendola, started on July 6, 1931 and it was financed by the American Rockefeller Foundation.

In 1941 the Istituto di Sanità Pubblica assumed its present name of Istituto Superiore di Sanità

In 1958 the ISS came under the protection of the Ministry of Health, from the Ministry of Interior.

ISS Directors (then Presidents)

Gaetano Basile (1934–35)
Dante De Blasi (1935)
Domenico Marotta (1935–61)
Giordano Giacomello (1961–64)
Giovan Battista Marini Bettolo Marconi (1964–72)
Francesco Pocchiari (1972–89)
Vincenzo Longo (1989)
Francesco Antonio Manzoli (1989–93)
Giuseppe Vicari (1993–95)
Aurelia Sargentini (1995–96)
Giuseppe Benagiano (1996–2001)
Enrico Garaci (2001–13)
Fabrizio Oleari (2013–14)
Gualtiero Ricciardi (2015–18); Commissioner (2014–15)
Silvio Brusaferro (2019–2023); Commissioner (first seven months of 2019)
Rocco Bellantone (2024-present); Commissioner (2023-2024)

Nobel Prize Winners

Structure

Departments

Environment and Primary Prevention
Cell Biology and Neurosciences
Haematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine
Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation
Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases
Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety
Technology and Health

National centres

National AIDS Centre
National Centre for Chemical Substances
National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion
Centre for Immunobiologicals Research and Evaluation
National Centre for Rare Diseases
Evaluation and Accreditation Body
National Blood Centre
National Transplant Centre

Technical services

Service for Biotechnology and Animal Welfare
Data Management, Documentation, Library and Publishing Activities

Bibliography

Giorgio Bignami, Origins and Subsequent Development of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome (Italy) (on-line Archived 2011-01-14 at the Wayback Machine (Italian)

References

^ "Istituto Superiore di Sanità - Poster nuova struttura (in inglese)" (PDF). ISS. 2019-01-21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-05-01. Retrieved 2020-03-01.

External links

Official English website of the ISS

[1] "Istituto Superiore di Sanità - Poster nuova struttura (in inglese)" (PDF). ISS. 2019-01-21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-05-01. Retrieved 2020-03-01.

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