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This project receives funding from the European Commission (DG Health and Consumer Protection) under the grant agreement number 2005202, Strand 2: ‘Health Threats’
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Giovanni Putoto

Dr. Giovanni Putoto has worked extensively as project coordinator in several health cooperation projects in Uganda (1988-1994), for the Italian Cooperation Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Italian Government; in Rwanda (1995 and 1997) for Caritas Internationalis; in 1999 in Kosovo for  the Italian Cooperation Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Italian Government and the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). In 1998 he actively participated in the drafting of the Business Plan “Ospedale di Padova” funded by the European Investment Bank (EIB), Contract Number 201434, N. Agora  982189. 

Since 1999 he has held the position of contracted professor at the International Development Studies Department, Faculty of Political Science, University of Padua. He also teaches on post graduate courses at the University of Florence and at the University of Venice in the field of health economics and global health.               

 

Currently, he is involved in the following projects: 

 

  • Episouth: Network for communicable diseases control in Southern Europe and Mediterranean Countries, Grant Agreement N. 2005206, Public Health
  • Xenome: Engineering of the porcine genome for xenotransplantation studies in primates: a step towards clinical application, LSHB CT 2006  Contract number 037377 
  • Project Coordinator of the European Hospital-Based Bioethics Programme – EHBP – Contract Number QLG6-CT-2002-30571 under RTD V FP.
  • Peja/Pec Hospital Training Project under the Italian Cooperation Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Italian Government
  • Telemedicine in Uganda, Mediaspace Project, under the European Space Agency (ESA), in collaboration with  Nsambya Hospital – Kampala
  • Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia Prophylaxis Project in Uganda in collaboration with the Department of Paediatrics, University of Padova  and Nsambya Hospital - Kampala
  • Fighting Maternal and Child HIV in Tanzania, in collaboration with CUAMM (Italian NGO) and the Archdiocese of Dar El Salaam 
  • Strengthening technical capacity of Beira Teaching Hospital, Mozambico in collaboration with CUAMM, under the Italian Cooperation Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Italian Government
  • Strengthening technical capacity of the Faculty of Health Science at the Martyrs ‘ University, Nkozi, Uganda

 

He has also been involved in the preparation and submission of RTD projects under the RTD VI Framework Programme (LIFESHIHEALTH,IST, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY).

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

 

  • International Cooperation in the field of Health
  • Health System Post conflict rehabilitation
  • Hospital Management
  • Strengthening District Health System

HIV, TB and Malaria Control