What future for health and welfare in Italy and Europe? The model of sustainability and integral health is of the interest to 88% of Italians, who hope for its effective implementation. This is what emerges from Campus Bio-Medico – One Health Report presented during the symposium “Social, Economic and Environmental Health and Sustainability”, at the Senate of the Republic.

The One Health approach is considered the only possible chance to face the main challenges of the coming years and the awareness of the interdepence between the health of the planet and human health must guide future political choices and those of social and economic actors, as well as that developments for medicine and healthcare.

“The One Health model is the only chance for our common future. Social research data also testifies to this: it’s an extremely interesting vision for citizens and it’s the desired direction for change. For Campus Bio-Medico, One Health is the north star.” Carlo Tosti, President of Campus Bio-Medico University and Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital Foundation “Through our development plan to 2045, the Social Green Masterplan as a model of innovation and sustainability at the service of the country, we are projected towards a single health of the planet according to a path started by Campus thirty years ago.”

For Marcella Trombetta, Dead of Faculty of Science and Technologies for Sustainable Development and One Health of the Campus Bio-Medico University: “The Campus Bio-Medico – One Health Report clearly highlights the necessary interdependence between human, animal and environmental health. This “One Health consciousness” must also concern knowledge in an interdisciplinary approach, whereby medicine must move away from the episodic logic of treating a single disease and instead enter an integrated dimension.”

“Our commitment is to offer new services to the territory and the community, aimed at care and intergenerational sociality, with spaces in which the laboratories will be called research parks and for integral training.” – these are the words of the Executive Director of Campus Bio-Medico Spa Domenico Mastrolitto “A unicum together with nature for the support of biodiversity and for the achievement of the objectives of the 2030 agenda for sustainable develompment, to which the Social Green Masterplan of the Campus Bio-Medico is online”.

Taking part in the event were: Andrea Abodi, Minister for Sport and Youth, Marcello Gemmato, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health and delegated by the President of the Council of Ministers Giorgia Meloni, Gilberto Dialuce, President of Enea, David Granieri Regional President Coldiretti Lazio, Agostino Scornajenchi, CEO of CDP Venture Capital, Margherita Ferrante, President of the Scientific Committee of International One Health Conference, Giovanna Tranfo, Director of the Department of Medicine, Epidemiology, Occupational and Environmental Hygiene of INAIL, Alessandro Miani, President of Italian Society of Environmental Medicine and Livio Gigliuto, Sociologist and Executive President of Piepoli Institute.

The event had the free patronage of the following institutions: European Parliament, European Commission, Ministry of Health, Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, Ministry of University and Research, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Ministry of Disabilities, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, INAIL, Regione Lazio and City of Rome.

See the full report here.