The National Institute of Health (Italian: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, lit. 'Higher Health Institute') , also ISS, is an Italian public institution that, as the leading technical-scientific body of the Italian National Health Service (Servizio Sanitario Nazionale), performs research, trials, control, counseling, documentation and training for public health. The Institute is under the supervision of the Ministry of Health (Ministero della Salute).
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History
The official opening of the ISS, called Institute of Public Health (Istituto di Sanità Pubblica), took place on April 21, 1934.
The construction of the main building in Rome, designed by architect Giuseppe Amendola, started on July 6, 1931 and it was financed by the American Rockefeller Foundation.
In 1941 the Institute of Public Health (Istituto di Sanità Pubblica) assumed its present name of the National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità).
In 1958 the ISS came under the protection of the Ministry of Health, from the Ministry of Interior.
ISS Directors (then Presidents)
Gaetano Basile (1934–35)
Dante De Blasi (1935)
Domenico Marotta (1935–61)
Giordano Giacomello (1961–64)
Giovan Battista Marini Bettolo Marconi (1964–72)
Francesco Pocchiari (1972–89)
Vincenzo Longo (1989)
Francesco Antonio Manzoli (1989–93)
Giuseppe Vicari (1993–95)
Aurelia Sargentini (1995–96)
Giuseppe Benagiano (1996–2001)
Enrico Garaci (2001–13)
Fabrizio Oleari (2013–14)
Gualtiero Ricciardi (2015–18); Commissioner (2014–15)
Silvio Brusaferro (2019–2023); Commissioner (first seven months of 2019)
Rocco Bellantone (2024-present); Commissioner (2023-2024)
Nobel Prize Winners
Daniel Bovet
Ernst Boris Chain
Enrico Fermi
Rita Levi Montalcini
Structure
Departments
Environment and Primary Prevention
Cell Biology and Neurosciences
Haematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine
Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation
Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases
Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety
Technology and Health
National centres
National AIDS Centre
National Centre for Chemical Substances
National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion
Centre for Immunobiologicals Research and Evaluation
National Centre for Rare Diseases
Evaluation and Accreditation Body
National Blood Centre
National Transplant Centre
Technical services
Service for Biotechnology and Animal Welfare
Data Management, Documentation, Library and Publishing Activities