Italy

The Italian REPOPA Working Group is being created involving stakeholders, researchers and policy makers in the field of Public Health, both at a local and national level, also including the international panellists who participated to the REPOPA Delphi. The Italian network is composed of research managers of universities and research centres (for instance, besides some Italian universities, the Centre for Medical Ethics of the Institute of Health and Society in Oslo and the European Joint Research Centre); administrators of health organizations (for instance, besides some local hospitals, the national Istituto Superiore di Sanità and the World Health Organization); sector associations (for instance, Associazione italiana di epidemiologia, Associazione Italiana di Economia Sanitaria, Associazione Nazionale dei Medici delle Direzioni Ospedaliere, European Association of Hospital Managers, Cittadini Reattivi, Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano, European Network for Sport Science Education and Employement, Centro di Servizio per il volontariato, International Society of Stem Cell Research, AGE Platform Europe, European Public Health Association); finally, some sector magazines, like Epidemiologia e Prevenzione, L'ospedale, European journal of Sport Science, Journal of Medical Ethics.

Participants to the group will be able to:

• Increase their visibility through the participation to the portal;
• Follow the scientific results of REPOPA;
• Receive information on the activities of communication and networking of the project;
• Contribute to the implementation and contextualization of project results;
• Get in contact with other stakeholders;
• Make proposals on new initiatives to promote EIPM.

Most of these activities will end up in the participation of the stakeholders to the REPOPA National Workshop, which will take place in Rome between the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016.