Health economist with a PhD in Public Health at the University of Perugia and a Master certificate at King’s College London, Stefano Orlando is currently a researcher at Tor Vergata University in Rome, in the Department of Biomedicine and Prevention. The main areas of research are economic issues related to diseases with both high prevalence and burden including infectious diseases, ageing and neurological disorders in Europe and Africa. He has served Italy at the High-level United Nations meeting on AIDS in 2011 and 2016 in New York. He plans and leads public health interventions in sub-Saharan Africa.