Public Health & Infection Control Office
Public Health-centred solutions for sustainable development since 1971
The Public Health & Infection Control Office (PH&ICO) is a multi-disciplinary voluntary independent panel of experts. Its purpose is to influence, support and improve the quality of healthcare through the practice and promoting research and development of infection control and the application of epidemiology in all health settings. The Organization, which is based in Trieste, is led by an experienced board of directors who volunteer their time and expertise with the aim of improving human and animal health worldwide.
Sancin M. Adriano
Senior consultant in Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine, Gynaecology and Obstetrics. In the 1960s
completed specialization residency under the world-renowned professor
F. Novak, Medical school – University of Ljubljana. In the 1990s,
he graduated from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical
Medicine – University of London.
He began to practice Tropical
Medicine at the Hospital of Albert Schweitzer (Nobel Prize) in
Lambarene, Gabon, Equatorial Africa, from 1985 to 1990. After his
first mission in Gabon, he founded the Italian Albert Schweitzer
Association.
Agolini Giuliano
Medicine doctor and
pharmacologist, he completed his studies under the supervision of
prof. E. Tarabucchi in Milan.
For many years he dealt
with blood transfusion devices, human plasma substitutes, solutions
for haemodialysis, extracorporeal circulation, and parenteral
solutions for intensive care patients.
The last ten years
has seen full time dedication to the industrial development of
biocides, their rational use for a more efficient prevention of
hospital acquired infections, and household usage.
Recently published
volumes and papers focus on the critical situation towards
emerging and re-emerging blood-borne viruses and prevention
strategies.
Dolzani Lucilla
Since
1994 Assistant professor at the Department of Life Sciences,
University of Trieste.
She teached many courses at the Faculty of
Medicine (1994-1996) and at the Faculty of Science (1994-now) of the
University of Trieste, including Laboratoty microbiology, Applied
microbiology, General microbiology and Molecular basis of bacterial
patogenicity.
Her current research interests focus on two major
topics, i.e the epidemiology of nosocomial infections and the
diffusion of antimicrobial resistance determinants, particularly
those carried by integrons.