Anna Odone is President of the EUPHA Digital Health section and Full Professor and Director of the School of Public Health at the University of Pavia, Italy. She is a member of the Italian Supreme Health Council (CSS). A medical doctor by training, she received an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, and an MPH in Health Policy and Management as a Fulbright Scholar from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, United States. She holds a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from the University of Parma, Italy. Passionate about the value of public health, she is a mentor to public health researchers, residents, and Ph.D. students; her research is in the field of infectious disease control, with a focus on vaccines and immunization programs and policies, digital public health, and health technology assessment.