Giancarlo Ceccarelli

Giancarlo Ceccarelli is a consultant in infectious diseases at the University Hospital Policlinico Umberto I in Rome and an adjunct professor of infectious diseases at the Sapienza University of Rome. He holds a PhD in Anti-Infective and Immunological Therapies and MSc degrees in “Sepsis in Surgery” and “Antibiotic Stewardship”. Additionally, he has attained national scientific qualification as a Full Professor in Infectious Diseases.

For over twenty years, he has been actively involved in safeguarding the health of asylum seekers at reception centres, collaborating with major organizations in the field such as the Italian Red Cross. He is the president of the Migrant and Global Health Research Organization (Mi-HeRO). His research interests encompass emerging infectious diseases, global health, and health issues in mobile populations, with a particular focus on migrant health and frontier medicine. He is also dedicated to research on difficult-to-treat infections in critically ill and immunocompromised patients.

He has an extensive scientific publication record, with over 250 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and more than 20 book chapters addressing topics related to infectious diseases in critically ill patients and special populations. He upholds extensive scientific collaborations at both national and international levels and has been actively engaged in numerous clinical trials and research projects. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several high-impact scientific journals, serves on the scientific committee of the International Center for Social Research in Health Science at Unicamillus International Medical University, and participates in expert review panels for the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) in France and the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.–FNRS) in Belgium.