National Institute of Health (Italy)


The National Institute of Health, also ISS, is an Italian public institution that, as the leading technical-scientific body of the Italian National Health Service, performs research, trials, control, counseling, documentation and training for public health. The Institute is under the supervision of the Ministry of Health.
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History

The official opening of the ISS, called Institute of Public Health, took place on April 21, 1934.
The construction of the main building in Rome, designed by architect Giuseppe Amendola, started on July 6, 1931 and it was financed by the American Rockefeller Foundation.
In 1941 the Institute of Public Health assumed its present name of the National Institute of Health.
In 1958 the ISS came under the protection of the Ministry of Health, from the Ministry of Interior.

ISS Directors (then Presidents)

  • Gaetano Basile
  • Dante De Blasi
  • Domenico Marotta
  • Giordano Giacomello
  • Giovan Battista Marini Bettolo Marconi
  • Francesco Pocchiari
  • Vincenzo Longo
  • Francesco Antonio Manzoli
  • Giuseppe Vicari
  • Aurelia Sargentini
  • Giuseppe Benagiano
  • Enrico Garaci
  • Fabrizio Oleari
  • Gualtiero Ricciardi ; Commissioner
  • Silvio Brusaferro ; Commissioner
  • Rocco Bellantone ; Commissioner

Nobel Prize Winners

Structure

Departments

National centres

  • National AIDS Centre
  • National Centre for Chemical Substances
  • National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion
  • Centre for Immunobiologicals Research and Evaluation
  • National Centre for Rare Diseases
  • Evaluation and Accreditation Body
  • National Blood Centre
  • National Transplant Centre

Technical services