Giovanni Fattore is a senior professor at the SDA Bocconi School of Management, where he has gained many years of experience in training health professionals, managers from public and private health care organizations and executives from pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies. In the nineties he studied and worked at the Harvard School of Public Health and the London School of Economics. He was recently appointed to the Board of EHMA, the European Health Management Association, and is now a tenured Associate Professor at Bocconi University. Bocconi’s MSc has attracted over 200students from about 40 different countries, including Nigeria, Rwanda, Morocco, Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea, Ghana and South Africa. I am proud to say that there is nothing similar in continental Europe and that we compete with the top British Universities (LSE, UCL) in recruiting students from all over the world.

CERGAS Bocconi (the Research centre on Healthcare Management of the University) has been developing training and research activities on healthcare management and policy since the late seventies and today is the leading Italian centre in the field. In recent years it has moved towards creating a centre of excellence in international education and research. In addition to the Master mentioned above, it carries out research projects funded by the EU and is collaborating with the WHO (both the Copenhagen and the Geneva office), the World Bank and many EU and US academic institutions in the field of health policy and management.