Luigi Migliorini, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Global Health - Boston University School of Public Health
Biography
Dr Luigi Migliorini is a Senior Advisor to the NCD European Office in Moscow and to the Regional director for Europe.
Dr Migliorini graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1982. He specialized in internal medicine, with a focus on geriatric medicine, and gained a diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom) and was awarded a master’s degree in Public Health from Boston University (United States of America).
He has started his international career working as a clinical doctor with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Aid Agency, first in Mozambique and then in the Balkans (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina). He continued with WHO, as Head of the Humanitarian Assistance Office in Albania, Serbia and Montenegro (his period in charge included the Kosovo conflict).
He was the WHO Representative in Turkey during the Avian Flu outbreak and the WHO Special Representative in the Russian Federation.
He was then appointed Senior Advisor to the WHO Regional Director for Europe.
Since 2003 Dr Luigi Migliorini has also been Adjunct Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health.
Education
- University of Siena, MD Field of Study: Medicine
- Boston University, MPH Field of Study: Public Health
Websites
Publications
- Published on 1/7/2016
Ganushkina LA, Patraman IV, Rezza G, Migliorini L, Litvinov SK, Sergiev VP. Detection of Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, and Aedes koreicus in the Area of Sochi, Russia. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2016 Jan; 16(1):58-60. PMID: 26741323.
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- Published on 6/24/2015
Lunze K, Yurasova E, Idrisov B, Gnatienko N, Migliorini L. Food security and nutrition in the Russian Federation - a health policy analysis. Glob Health Action. 2015; 8:27537. PMID: 26112143.
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- Published on 6/1/2014
Acharya S, Barber SL, Lopez-Acuna D, Menabde N, Migliorini L, Molina J, Schwartländer B, Zurn P. BRICS and global health. Bull World Health Organ. 2014 Jun 01; 92(6):386-386A. PMID: 24940006.
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- Published on 4/1/2014
Jakab Z, Galea G, Mauer-Stender K, Migliorini L. Cancer in Russia: reflections from WHO in Europe. Lancet Oncol. 2014 Apr; 15(5):487-8. PMID: 24731403.
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- Published on 4/1/2014
Litvinov SK, Migliorini L, Chernikova EA, Lutsevich OA. [Global eradication of dracunculiasis is a reality nowadays]. Med Parazitol (Mosk). 2014 Apr-Jun; (2):3-5. PMID: 25296417.
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- Published on 4/1/2014
Sergiev VP, Migliorini L, Litvinov SK, Chernikova EA. [Neglected tropical diseases: a New World Health Organization program]. Med Parazitol (Mosk). 2014 Apr-Jun; (2):59-63. PMID: 25296432.
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- Published on 7/1/2013
Zurn P, Romisch-Diouf MA, Acharya S, Barber SL, Menabde N, Migliorini L, Molina J, O'Leary MJ. BRICS and global health: a call for papers. Bull World Health Organ. 2013 Jul 01; 91(7):466-6A. PMID: 23980319.
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- Published on 1/23/2013
Lunze K, Migliorini L. Tobacco control in the Russian Federation--a policy analysis. BMC Public Health. 2013; 13:64. PMID: 23339756.
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