9.30 a.m.

Apertura dei lavori

Gianluca Vago, Dean of theUniversity of Milan

Remo Danovi, president of the Attorneys Orders of Milan

Livia Pomodoro, president of the Fondazione Centro nazionale di prevenzione e difesa sociale; president of ISPAC-International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme

Session I: The epidemiological framework, West Africa situation

Moderator

Paolo Vineis, Chair in Environmental Epidemiology, Imperial College, London (tbc)

10.00 a.m.

• The epidemiological framework

Paola Testori Coggi, Former General Director for Health and Consumers, European Commission

10.30 a.m.

• Lessons from the development of disease in West Africa

Jeremy Bowles, Hub Economist, Country Programme, International Growth Centre, London, UK

11.00-11.15 a.m.

Coffee Break

Session II: Socio-economic effects

Moderator

Giovanni Dosi, Director of the Economy Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa (tbc)

11.15 a.m.

• Effects on Africa

Mead Over, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, Washington DC, USA (tbc)

11.45 a.m.

• Effects on global economy

Luigi Prosperetti, Professor of Political Economy, University of Milan

12.15 p.m.

• Social effects

Alessia Melegaro, Assistant Professor in Demography and Social Statistic, Bocconi University, Milan

12.45 p.m.

Discussion

1.00 p.m.

Lunch

Session III: Epidemic phenomena, individual rights, international rights

Moderator

Amedeo Santosuosso, president of the European Centre for Law, Science and New Technologies, University of Pavia (tbc)

2.00 p.m.

• Epidemics and individual rights

Wendy E. Parmet, George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

2.30 p.m.

• Epidemics and international rights
  Pia Acconci, Associated Professor of International Right, University of Teramo

Session IV: Institutional responses

Moderator

Roberto Satolli, Zadig, ASSET project

3.00 p.m.

• Italian responses

Raniero Guerra, General Director of Health Prevention, Ministry of Health

3.30 p.m.

• World Health Organization responses

Roberto Bertollini, Chief Scientist and WHO Representative to the European Union

4.00 p.m.

• European Commission responses

Paolo Guglielmetti, Administrator and Policy Officer in the Health Threats Unit of the Directorate General of Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) of the European Commission

4.30 p.m.

Conclusions

Guido Calabresi, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Former Dean, Sterling Professor of Law Emeritus, Yale Law School