Welcome and Introduction Round Table

Paolo Esposito, Managing Diretor, University G. D’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara

Angela Di Baldassare, Delegate of the Rector, University G. D’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara

Francesco Chiarelli, Director of Department of Women’s and Children’s Health (UdA)

Pietro Diego Ferrara, Mayor of Chieti

Alessandro Miani, President of the Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (SIMA)

Prisco Piscitelli, Secretary General of the European Medical Association (EMA)

Salvatore Ippolito, President of the Spanish Society of Environmental Medicine and Climate Changes (SESMA)

Benoît Miribel, President of the International One Health for All Foundation (OSH, Lion)

Luciano di Tizio, President of WWF Italy

Plenary Lectures

Tong Zhu, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing University (China)

Introduced by Enrico Greco, SIMA Officer and Associate Researcher, University of South Florida

Giuseppe Novelli, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)

Introduced by Prisco Piscitelli, EMA Secretary General

Session I - Environmental Exposures and Food Chain

Chaired by Pasquale Avino (EBM of IJERPH, MDPI; University of Molise, Italy) and Angela di Baldassarre, Delegate of the Rector (Chieti)

Marcello Iriti, University of Milan

Vasilis Vasiliou, Director of the Department of Environmental Health, Yale University (USA)

Antonia Trichopoulou, Academy of Athens (Greece)

Moderated by Elena Meli, Corriere della Sera

Plenary Lecture

Andrew Haines, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Alessio Fasano, Massachussets General Hospital, Harvad Medical School, Boston (USA)

James A. Shapiro, University of Chicago (USA)

Introduced by Prisco Piscitelli (EMA Secretary General)

Session II - Environmental Exposures and Reproductive Health

Chaired by Giulia Guerriero (EBM of Reproductive Medicine and Oxygen, MDPI; Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita' degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy) and Luigi Falciola (University of Milan, Italy)

Ester Vitacolonna, Gabriele d’Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara (Italy)

Elena Codina, Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, Barcelona (Spain)

Annamaria Colao, UNESCO Chair, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)

Moderated by Elena Meli, Corriere della Sera

Session III - Environmental Exposures and Children’s Health

Chaired by Alessandro Distante (ISBEM, Brindisi) and Anatolia Salone (Gabriele d’Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara)

Francesco Chiarelli, Gabriele d’Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara (Italy)

Vassilios Fanos, University of Cagliari (Italy)

Juan Antonio Ortega Garcia, (Spain)

Moderated by Elena Meli, Corriere della Sera

Closing Lecture

Imaculata De Vivo, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Introduced by Alessandro Miani (SIMA President)

Celebration of the International Week for Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights

Liborio Stuppia, Rector of Gabriele d’Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara

Roberto Bellotti, Rector of University of Bari “Aldo Moro”

Don Antonio Panico, Vice Rector, LUMSA University, Taranto

Prisco Piscitelli, EMA Secretary General

Alessandro Miani, SIMA President

Andrea Iacomini, Spokesperson UNICEF Italia

Extraordinary participation of ALBANO CARRISI for SIMA initiative RIGHT TO VOICE / DIRITTO ALLA VOCE

Moderator: Mimmo Mazza, Editor-in-Chief of Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno and Prisco Piscitelli, Secretary General of the European Medical Association (EMA)

Guest of Honor - Presentation of the Volume “EARTH”

H.E. Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi, Former Minister of the Environment, United Arab Emirates

Session IV – Exposomics and Epigenetics

Chaired by Emiliano Giardina , (SEiC of Genes, MDPI) and Valentina Gatta (University G. D’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Italy)

Pierluigi Sacco, Rectoral Delegate to International Affairs, Gabriele d’Annunzio University Chieti-Pescara

Elena Colicino, Icahn School of Medicine atMount Sinai, New York (USA)

Gianluigi De Gennaro , University of Bari “Aldo Moro”

Moderated by Elena Meli, Corriere della Sera

Forefront Lecture

Carlo Ventura, University of Bologna

Introduced by Prisco Piscitelli, EMA Secretary General

Presentation of the International Journal of Environmental Medicine (IJEM) & Scientific Societies collaboration with MDPI

Carla Aloe (MDPI Officer) and Jing Shang (Co-Editor in Chief of IJEM)

Session V – New Frontiers of Public Health and Primary Prevention

Chaired by Amedeo Lonardo (EiC of Metabolites, MDPI; Medicina Interna, Ospedale Civile di Baggiovara (MO), Italy) and Leonard Azanfirei (Targu Mures, Romania)

Rita White, President of the Italian Academy of Biophilia (AIB)

Anmol Kapoor, Biongevity, Calgary (Canada)

David Mariani, Director of the Healthy Habits Academy

Edoardo Cavalieri D’Oro, Director of Fireghters NBCR National Centre, Milan

Moderated by Elena Meli, Corriere della Sera

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Conclusions

Liborio Stuppia, Rector of Gabriele d’Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara

Alessandro Miani, President of Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (SIMA)

Stefan Tochev, CEO MDPI

Academic Publishing Workshop - Students' and Researchers' Training Session: How to prepare a scientific paper for the submission

Ioana Preda and Anya Osborn (MDPI Representatives)