Just thanks to cooperation and interdisciplinarity we will be able to face the new challenges new pandemics will throw at us without any kind of warning. The true and crucial questioni s not “if” but “when”.

Let’s listen to what Ilaria Capua suggests as she was interviewed within…

Ilaria Capua will deliver a keynote speech at the international One Health event which will be held in Bologna on Nov 2nd 2023. Click here to have more information.

The recent epidemics and pandemics, in particular COVID-19, have made it unmistakably clear that human, animal, plant and environmental health cannot be dealt with separately, but need to be addressed in a ‘One Health’ approach. Their interdependencies need to be better acknowledged and require work at the interfaces in…

Ilaria Capua’s tour begins April 27, 2023 in Perugia

Science, health and the environment take to the stage in the new theatrical project stemming from Ilaria Capua’s latest book on Circular Health entitled “The Words of Circular Health”. In a multi-stop tour across Italy’s main cities. Ilaria Capua will be…

The event “Building the Italy of Tomorrow: The Biotech Road” will be held on Wednesday 31 May starting at 11 in the Sala Buzzati of the Corriere della Sera. On this occasion Ilaria Capua will be awarded the Assobiotec Award 2023.

The motivation for the award is as follows:

«The Assobiotec…

Ilaria Capua will be one of the speakers of the EuroNET MRPH Spring Meeting held in Genoa from June 21st to the 23rd. The convention will focus on the theme “Health in a changing world” and is organized by the Organizing Committee of the School of Hygiene and Preventive…

On Tuesday 30 May 2023 at 4.30 pm in the Aula Magna of the Steri Monumental Complex, Ilaria Capua was awarded the “Honoris Causa” honorary Degree in Medicine and Surgery by the University of Palermo. She is the first Italian veterinarian to receive this recognition.

Here is the video…

On 1 December 2022, Ilaria Capua will open the high-profile in-depth summit dedicated to sustainability decision makers scheduled at the United Nations campus in Turin: “Beyond Net Zero”, with a speech on circular health.

“Beyond Net Zero” offers a day of reflection that starts from Health and Human Wellbeing, and…

The United Nations World Data Forum 2021 (UNWDF 2021) is confirmed to take place from 3 to 6 October 2021 in Bern, Switzerland in a hybrid format.

Ilaria Capua will attend the A3.15 session scheduled on October 5th from 4:15 PM to 5:15 PM The legacy of COVID-19: mobilizing gender data to deliver better science

Moving…

The Spanish edition of Ilaria Capua’s children’s book “Il viaggio segreto dei virus” is published today by Ediciones Laberinto. Available in all bookstores in Spain and in the main online stores.

Los virus están en boca de todos, ¡seguro que has aprendido mucho sobre ellos últimamente!
Sin embargo, aún se desconocen muchas…

The Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize in its second edition recognises Prof. Ilaria Capua, virologist and current Director of the “One Health” Center of Excellence at the University of Florida, for her notable research career in the fields of veterinary medicine and microbiology, for her contributions to science…

We are happy to announce that children’s book “Il viaggio segreto dei virus”  (The Secret Voyage of Viruses) will be published in german by Carl Auer Verlag on 25 May!

We are honoured to be featured by Simons Kehrwoche and thankful to Carl Auer Verlag for remembering when…

Fifteenyears after the revolutionary decision to make the gene sequence of the avian virus public domain, Ilaria Capua, pioneer of open access science, look beyond Covid-19 on the pages of Stat News

Anniversaries represent an opportunity for revisiting the past to make a leap forward. I’m using a…

How about developing thermostable vaccines once and for all? Until we abandon the cold chain, equitable vaccination will not be possible. We need to invest in hermostable vaccines now.

Read The unsung virtue of thermostability, Ilaria Capua and Carlo Giaquinto’s letter published on March 23, 2021  on Lancet’s website. 

Science by the Slice is a podcast from the UF/IFAS Center for Public Issues Education (PIE Center) that explores the science behind issues affecting our daily lives, encompassing public health, agriculture, and natural resources.

Experts discuss the science of complex challenges in our society, then, through analysis and storytelling,…

Last November the medical journal The Lancet published Ilaria Capua and Mario Rasetti’s contribution “Here, the huge rainbow within the Covid-19 storm”.

The real-life experience of the 2020 pandemic has shown us how totally unprepared we were to face such an event,…

The Embassy of Italy to Canada, Consulate General of Italy in Toronto, Italian Trade Agency, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Italian National Tourist Board and Italian…

Tuesday 12 January 2021 at 5.00 pm Ilaria Capua will be guest of honor of the Council for the United States and Italy, an independent, private, non-profit  association, launched in 1983 by Gianni Agnelli and David Rockefeller.

His speech The rainbow within Covid19 will be introduced by President Domenico…

The children’s book Ti conosco mascherina written by Ilaria Capua and published in Italy last October by Coccinella editore has been translated into five languages. It will soon go on sale in France, Portugal, Poland, Turkey and Slovenia.

Ti conosco mascherina (I know you mascherina!) is a game book…

There were more than 18,000 views of four online meetings on eight social networks, with hundreds of comments and the involvement and four international partners: the World Bank, Greenpeace International, New York University and 350.org. These were the results of a series of digital talks on Discovering the Circular nature of Covid-19, curated by Elastica…

Together with Reinhold Messner and Andrea Rigoni, Ilaria Capua received the Masi Civiltà Veneta 2020 Award on 24 October 2020. This is an important recognition that the Masi Foundation bestows on personalities – Venetian by birth, by family or by adoption – who have distinguished in the fields…

The Academia Europaea Barcelona Knowledge Hub is pleased to announce that Dr. Ilaria Capua, current Director of the “One Health” Center of Excellence at the Univeristy of Florida, and a member of the Biochemistry and molecular biology section of the Academy, has been selected as winner of the second edition…