WHO European Region
Francesca Racioppi, ScD
Regional Adviser for Violence and Injury Prevention
Scientist, European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome
Phone : +39 064877 545
Fax : +39 064877 599
Responsibilities:
- Focal point of the WHO/EURO for activities in the area of work of injury prevention
- Manager of the programme "Accidents, Transport and Health"
Francesca Racioppi was born in Rome, Italy, where she graduated as a molecular biologist from the University "La Sapienza". She attended several post-graduate trainings in epidemiology, integrated assessment, environmental and human toxicology. She has developed extensive experience in analyzing environmental health issues and building capacity for environmental health, with a focus in eastern European countries. Before joining the WHO Regional Office for Europe in 1997, she was a Section Head at Procter and Gamble, where she worked as a section head on issues related to human and environmental health and consumer safety.
Francesca Racioppi is coordinating activities related to Violence and Injury Prevention for the European Region. In this capacity, she facilitates and co-ordinates contacts between the European Programmes implementing activities related to violence and injury prevention and the VIP Department in Geneva. She is also directly involved in activities related to the prevention of violence and unintentional injuries in the European Region. She led the preparation of the European report "Preventing road traffic injury: a public health perspective for Europe" for World Health Day 2004. She also manages the WHO programme on Transport and Health.
Dinesh Sethi, MSc MD FFPH
Technical Officer
European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome
Phone: +39 064877 526
Fax: +39 064877 599
Responsibilities:
- Violence and Injury Prevention Programme
Dr Sethi read medicine at Liverpool and worked in internal medicine and then trained in public health, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London Deanery. Before joining WHO he worked as a Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Public Health in London. In the past he has worked on conducting surveys of injuries in refugees in Uganda, evaluating the cost-effectiveness of trauma services in Malaysia, and on the health professional response to domestic violence in London. His interests include injury surveillance, surveys of injury and violence in the community and advocating for injury and violence prevention.
Dr Sethi is a Technical Officer at the Violence and Injury Prevention Programme, WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome, Italy.
Francesco Mitis
Technical Officer
European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome
Phone: +39 06487 7521
Fax: +39 06487 7599
Responsibilities
- Violence and Injury Prevention Programme
Francesco Mitis was born in Rome, Italy, where he graduated as a statistician from the University "La Sapienza". He attended several post-graduate trainings in environmental epidemiology.
Since 1998 he has been working for WHO's European Centre for Environment and Health in Rome. Until 2008 in the health impact assessment team, mainly dealing with health impact of air pollution, waste disposal facilities and dangerous industrial sites. In 2009 he joined the Violence and Injury Prevention team as a technical officer, working in capacity building activities at country level and for a DG SANCO project on the preventon of violence and unintentional injuries in the European Region.
WHO Country Office for the Russian Federation
Francesco Zambon
Technical Officer
Phone: +7 4957872108
Dr Zambon is a native of Vittorio Veneto, Italy. He graduated as a medical doctor in 1998 from Padua University where he continued his post-graduate training in Community Medicine and received his PhD in Health Planning. He holds master degrees in Safety Promotion (2005) from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and in Business Administration (2009) from the Tippie School of Management, USA. Prior to commencing work at WHO, Dr Zambon worked as health manager at the Regional Department for Epidemiology in Veneto, Italy, and at the Epidemiology and Community Medicine Unit of Padua University.
Dr Zambon joined WHO in 2008 as Regional Data Coordinator for the Global status report on road safety and led the preparation of the European status report on road safety. Since January 2010 he is the coordinator in the Russian Federation of the Road Safety in 10 Countries (RS10) Project. Dr Zambon also provides support to the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health in Rome on strengthening capacity for violence and injury prevention.