Raffaella Bucciardini

Raffaella is the Head of the Health Equity ISS Operative Unit at the Italian Institute of Health. Since 1992, she has worked as a researcher at Istituto Superiore di Sanità – ISS  (the Italian National Institute of Health) and since 2019 she has been Director of the Unit Health Equity ISS – HEISS.

She has been responsible for the development of operational research initiatives to improve the quality of care of people with HIV infection in African countries and for conducting projects to tackle health inequalities at national and European level. Since 2018, she has been the project coordinator of the Joint Action Health Equity Europe (JAHEE) funded by CHAFEA (3rd EU Health Programme) and of a national project on health equity within the National Prevention Plan (A health equity focused National Prevention Plan (NPP) 2020-2025: Putting Health Equity Audit (HEA) in practice: from the National Prevention Plan (NPP) to each Regional Prevention Plan RPP) funded by Italian Ministry of Health.

Since 2020, she has been member of the Scientific Working Group of the Italian Health Equity Status Report (IHESR) coordinated by WHO Regional Office for Europe and the coordinator of the  working group on SDG3 (ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages) for ASVIS (Alleanza Italiana per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile) of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.