Francesco Castelli

FRANCESCO CASTELLI, MD is Professor of Infectious Diseases and Head of the University Division of Infectious and Tropical Medicine at the University of Brescia (Italy) and Spedali Civili of Brescia (Italy). Professor Castelli presently acts as the Rector of the University of Brescia. He is the holder of the UNESCO Chair “Training and empowering human resources for health development in resource-limited countries”. He has acted as Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on HIV/TB Co-infection and TB elimination strategies in 2011-15. His major fields of scientific interest are infectious and tropical diseases, migration medicine and global health in both industrialized and developing Countries. He has authored/co-authored more than 580 papers on peer-reviewed journals and more than 110 chapters of Books and Manuals. His H-index is 67 (Scopus) and 80 (Google Scholar). He has been awarded the title of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2011.