Collaboration agreement

Some of the institutes with researchers involved in the Italian GBD network have signed a “Collaboration Agreement for the Development and Implementation of the Global Burden of Disease Project in Italy.”

From the Collaboration Agreement for the development and implementation of the Global Burden of Disease project in Italy:

“the Parties intend to undertake an activity of scientific collaboration in order to contribute to the development and better implementation of the GBD project in Italy, including through the activation of a Network organization(Italian Global Burden of Disease Initiative), as a useful tool to bring together the different professional skills, share and coordinate research activities, prepare integrated assessment tools on the impact of health policies implemented at Regional and National level and contribute to the production of indicators useful for the definition of health policies in Italy and in the World.

All of the above, the Parties as identified above, having determined that the premises form an integral part of the agreement, agree and stipulate the following:

Art. 1 Purpose

1. The subject of this Agreement is a collaborative activity between the Parties for the development and better implementation of the Global Burden of Disease Project in Italy.

2. Specifically, objectives of the collaboration are:

– the activation of a Network organization(Italian Global Burden of Disease Initiative) between the Parties, as a useful tool to bring together the different professional skills and work experiences of the various research groups and researchers, share and coordinate activities, prepare integrated assessment tools on the impact of health policies implemented at the Regional and National level and contribute to the production of indicators useful for the definition of health policies in Italy and in the World;

– National and regional discolure and dissemination of the results of the GBD project so as to make it a useful tool for health planning in Italy, also in relation to the path already taken by other countries;

– The optimization and intensification of data and information exchange work with the IHME and, in agreement with the latter body, the production of estimates and evaluations in terms of GBD referring to Italy and its territorial subdivision into Regions (19 Regions and 2 Autonomous Provinces), with the aim of elaborating specific working hypotheses and deepening and developing thematic aspects relevant to national and regional health planning;

– la realizzazione di progetti di ricerca congiunti nell’ambito dell’iniziativa GBD e l’eventuale accesso in partnership a possibili finanziamenti.“

Below is the list of research centers that have signed the Agreement:

  • IRCCS Materno-Infantile “Burlo Garofolo,” Trieste;
  • IRCCS Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri,” Milan and Bergamo;
  • Department of Translational Biomedicine and Neuroscience, University of Bari “Aldo Moro,” Bari;
  • Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Bologna;
  • Azienda USL Toscana Centro, Florence;
  • Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases of the Ecclesiastical Body Pia Fondazione di Culto e Religione “Card. G. Panico,” Tricase (LE);
  • Department of Legal and Economic Studies, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome;
  • University of Milan – Bicocca, Milan;
  • GISED Study Center, Bergamo, Italy;
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome;
  • Regional Health Agency of Tuscany, Florence;
  • Institute for the Study, Prevention and Oncology Network (ISPRO) Tuscany, Florence;
  • Department of Public Health, University of Naples Federico II, Naples;
  • CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Padua, Italy;
  • Department for Health Activities and Epidemiological Observatory (DASOE) of the Regional Department of Health, Sicily Region, Palermo;
  • Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy;
  • IRCCS “Carlo Besta” Neurological Institute Foundation, Milan;
  • General Directorate for Personal Care, Health and Welfare of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Bologna;
  • Department of Biomedical, Dental and Morphological and Functional Imaging Sciences, University of Messina;
  • IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo, Pozzilli (IS);
  • Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry “Salerno Medical School,” University of Salerno, Salerno.