Ilaria Capua

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Ilaria Capua, DVM, PhD, MD hc

Ilaria Capua is currently a Senior Fellow of Global Health at Johns Hopkins University – SAIS Europe and Courtesy Professor and Director Emeritus of the One Health Center of Excellence at the University of Florida. She graduated cum laude in veterinary medicine in 1989 at the University of Perugia and continued to train earning a specialization and a PhD in Virology and Public Health from the Universities of Pisa and Padua respectively.
She dedicated much of her career to animal viral infections that can be transmitted to humans, which cause poverty and food security issues such as Avian Influenza, Newcastle Disease and Rabies within the One Health paradigm. She has also worked with international organizations to develop strategies for the prevention and management of health emergencies caused by potentially pandemic viruses. In 2006, she championed a paradigm shift sharing of genetic information of viruses that affect humans and that originate from an animal reservoir. Today, as a result of this initiative, numerous data sharing platforms have been created that host millions of genetic sequences of zoonotic viruses such as Sars CoV-2 (Covid-19), MPox, and Influenza viruses.
She has published over 240 articles in peer reviewed international journals and has been the editor of scientific books and has authored or co-authored chapters of scientific textbooks. She is currently on the advisory board of several EU projects including REGROUP and DURABLE and is a commissioner of the Lancet Commission on “21st Century Threats to Global Health”. She has developed the Circular Health paradigm, an expansion of the One Health concept, which is the subject of several recent books published in Italian and in English.

She was also a Member of the Italian Parliament (2013-2016). During her tenure, she served as vice-president of the Science, culture and education commission of the chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament.
She is a columnist for mainstream newspapers such as Corriere Della Sera and author of numerous books for adults, teenagers and children, some of which have been translated into other languages.