Alberto Mantovani, President of the Humanitas Foundation for Research, has from the outset supported Doctors with Africa Cuamm for the vaccination campaign in Africa, promoting this great challenge.
Why is it important to participate in the Annual Meeting?
I participate to share, contribute and thank. For example, to share the vision of “with” and the goal of transforming a vaccine into a vaccination. To contribute what little I know. To thank the people of Cuamm for what they do and represent, even in my place.
What does restarting mean to you?
For me, leaving means taking up the challenge of research, of teaching in presence, and of knowledge. Of crossing the not knowing in the service of science and health, and of shared health.
Starting over “with”…?
I have many “with”: with members of my family, with members of my laboratory who are my teachers, with civil society organizations who live “with”, from the organizations in my neighborhood to Cuamm.
Noemi Bazzanini, took part to the mission in Tanzania as part of a project on chronic diseases. An infectiologist, on the front line in the Covid-19 emergency at Parma Hospital, in 2018 she had served with Doctors with Africa Cuamm as a Jpo and then as a doctor in infectious diseases in Shinyanga and Songambele, Tanzania.
Why is it important to attend the Annual Meeting?
It is an important moment to do advocacy: being many people, selling out in person, means expressing a greater commitment and awareness, to move something at the level of public opinion and institutions.
What does it mean for you to start again?
I’m returning to a country where I’ve already been, even if in a different place, after about two years, the time of Covid. Every time you go, it’s always starting something new, it requires all the commitment of new things, uti t also gives you the hope of doing well. It’s a great opportunity, it gives a strong charge!
Starting over “with”…?
I’ll be working a little bit on the ward, a little bit in the outpatient department, but the newest part will be working with the Jpo’s, I’ll have to measure up. I would say with the ability to get back on top of everything and rediscover.
Translation: Giulia Mascia
Communication and Media Relations Officer
