Cts, who are the new members (Guerra and Ruocco kaputt)
The Draghi government halves the CTS and changes many members. Here is news and confirmations, with all the curricula
Mario Draghi also changes the Technical Scientific Committee (Cts). And he scissors the members, who go from 20 to 12. To no longer sit in the Cts, among others, will be Giuseppe Ruocco, general secretary of the Ministry of Health and Ranieri Guerra, representative of the World Health Organization and ended up at the center of controversy over the failure to update the pandemic plan .
The slimming treatment and role changes will serve, hopes the Government, to “rationalize the activities of the CTS, in order to optimize its functioning also by reducing the number of members”. Let's go step by step.
RECONFIRMED BY THE CTS
Let's start with the new line-up.
To be reconfirmed in the Scientific Technical Committee of the Draghi Government are the president of the Higher Institute of Health Silvio Brusaferro, that of the Higher Council of Health Franco Locatelli and the head of Prevention of the ministry, Gianni Rezza. The police doctor Fabio Ciciliano, considered by the news close to Agostino Miozzo, also retains the post, who in recent days resigned from the CTS (perhaps sensing the news) for a new post at the Ministry of Education, Patrizio Bianchi . Giuseppe Ippolito, scientific director of Spallanzani, also remains in the team.
Locatelli and Brusaferro will be coordinator and spokesperson for the new CTS respectively.
7 NEW ENTRY IN THE CTS
There are seven new entrants: Sergio Fiorentino, who has the task of secretary, Cinzia Caporale, Giorgio Palù, Sergio Abrignani, Alessia Melegaro, Alberto Giovanni Gerli, Donato Greco.
On the basis of a provision of the Civil Protection, in agreement with the presidency of the council, the President of the Superior Health Council, who will be the coordinator, the President of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (as spokesperson for the Committee), the Scientific Director of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases "Lazzaro Spallanzani", a member designated by the President of the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces, the President of the Ethics Committee of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases "Lazzaro Spallanzani", the Director General of Health Prevention of the Ministry of Health, the President of AIFA as well as a member indicated by the Department of Civil Protection.
I CURRICULA OF NEW ENTRANCES
Who are they and what do the new entrants do?
Giorgio Palù : president of the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) , Palù, graduated in Medicine and Surgery, is Full Professor of Microbiology and Virology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Padua.
Sergio Fiorentino : lawyer, he is a member of the Advisory Committee of the State Advocacy. In the past he was legal advisor to the Minister of European Policies, Emma Bonino, and Head of the Legislative Office of the pro tempore Ministers of European policies and European affairs (with the ministers Ronchi, Bernini, Moavero, Milanesi).
Cinzia Caporale : head of the Spallanzani ethics committee, she is a senior technologist at the National Research Council and head of the Rome Section of the Institute of Biomedical Technologies (ITB), dedicated to studies of research ethics, bioethics, research integrity, bio-law and biopolitics. Since 2009 he has been coordinator of the CNR Commission for Research Ethics and Bioethics and responsible for the scientific and technical-organizational structure that supports its activities.
Sergio Abrignani : immunologist, Abrignani is Full Professor of General Pathology at the University of Milan and Scientific Director of the Ingm Foundation, National Molecular Genetics Institute “Romeo and Enrica Invernizzi.
Alessia Melegaro : demographer, she is professor in Demography and Social Statistics at the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management of the Bocconi University. She is a researcher at DONDENA.
Alberto Giovanni Gerli : graduated from the University of Padua and specialized in Space engineering at Texas “A&M”, the engineer Gerli takes care of Covid data for the Lombardy region. He is founder and CEO of Tourbillon Tech.
Donato Greco : epidemiologist, he directed the National Center for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion (CNESPS) and the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Laboratory of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. He also held the position of Director General of Health Prevention at the Ministry of Health.
OBJECTIVE: RATIONALIZE ACTIVITIES
The slimming treatment and the change of seats is a step due "to the new phase of the emergency", considered "the acceleration of the activities related to the new vaccination plan".
The goal is to “rationalize the activities of the CTS, in order to optimize its functioning also by reducing the number of members”.
The head of the Civil Protection department, Fabrizio Curcio, thus involved "experts not only belonging to the scientific-health field but also to other sectors, such as the world of statistics, mathematics-forecasting or other fields useful for defining the situation epidemiological and to carry out the analysis of the data collected to combat the pandemic ".
CHANGE COMMUNICATION
Not only a change of seats, but also a change of policy. The CTS will only have a spokesperson who will be deputed to speak, avoiding different positions taken by the various members in the media.
THOSE WHO NO LONGER SIT IN THE TECHNICAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Agostino Miozzo, coordinator of the Promotion and Integration Office of the National Civil Protection Service, Claudio D'Amario, general director of health prevention of the Ministry of Health , will no longer sit on the Technical-Scientific Committee, set up by Conte bis ; Mario Dionisio, director of the Coordination Office of the Maritime – Air and Border Health Offices of the Ministry of Health; Achille Iachino, general manager of medical devices and the pharmaceutical service of the Ministry of Health; Sergio Iavicoli, director of the Department of Medicine, Epidemiology, Occupational and Environmental Hygiene of Inail; Nicola Magrini, general manager of the Italian drug agency; Giuseppe Ruocco, general secretary of the Ministry of Health; General Nicola Sebastiani, Inspector General of Military Health of the Ministry of Defense; Andrea Urbani, general director of health planning of the Ministry of Health; Alberto Zoli, representative of the Health Commission appointed by the President of the Conference of Autonomous Regions and Provinces.
And again among those who will not sit there is prof. Massimo Antonelli, director of the Department of emergencies, anesthesiology and resuscitation of the A. Gemelli University Hospital; the professor. Roberto Bernabei, director of the Department of Aging, Neurological, Orthopedic and Head-Neck Sciences at the Gemelli University Hospital; Ranieri Guerra, representative of the World Health Organization and targeted for failure to update the pandemic plan; Francesco Maraglino, director of the Prevention of Communicable Diseases and International Prophylaxis Office of the Ministry of Health; the professor. Luca Richeldi, president of the Italian Society of Pneumology; and prof. Alberto Villani, president of the Italian Society of Pediatrics.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/cts-chi-sono-i-nuovi-membri-guerra-e-ruocco-kaputt/ on Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:05:22 +0000.