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Natalia Oprea is a Research Fellow in the Government, Health and Not for Profit (GHNP) Division at SDA Bocconi School of Management.

She earned a Master's degree in Public Policies and Territorial Development from Deusto University, Spain and the PhD in Political Science at the University of Siena, Italy.

Natalia has contributed to international research projects, including Horizon2020 'Co-Val' project, Horizon Europe 'InGOV' project, and 'ShareView'.

Her research activities focus on the co-creation of public services, including patient engagement in health care, governance in healthcare, and the role of digital technologies in the provision of public services.

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Francesca Meda is Junior Fellow at SDA Bocconi School of Management in the Government, Health and Not For Profit division, She holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Social Sciences and a master's degree in Economics and Management of Government and International Organizations, both from Bocconi University.

She is currently a PhD student in Management of Innovation, Sustainability and Healthcare at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa), focusing on service design and service management for health and social care.

Her research interests and scientific publications mainly concern the topics of healthcare and social care management, service design, integrated and community care, welfare service management.

She employs mainly qualitative and mixed research methods.

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Viviana Mangiaterra is Associate Professor of Practice at SDA Bocconi School of Management (Government, Health and Not for Profit Division).

She is also Member of the Global Health team at Cergas (Centre for Research on Health and Social Care Management).

She is the course scientific director in several SDA Bocconi executive courses: i) Access to Medicines in LMICs, ii) Hospital Management Simulation course, iii) The Academy in Health Care Management for hospitals and health care administrators.

She is at present the Director of the Master in International Health Management Economics and Policy (Mihmep), at SDA Bocconi. Viviana holds an MD, a master in Pediatrics and a PhD in Gastroenterology and Nutrition from Milano University.

She had a rewording professional global career in international public health, working for the WB, the WHO, in various capacities, gaining extensive country experience in Asia, Africa, Middle east and Eastern Europe. She was from 2014 to 2020 the Head of the Health System Strengthening/Maternal Child Health Division at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Main focus of her work in global health is on strategic planning; policy development; health system strengthening; technical advice for program implementation in the field of reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health, gender, TB, HIV and Malaria; and partnership-building with a wide range of stakeholders.

Viviana is a Member of the GAVI Independent Review Committee (IRC) with focus on RSSH, MCH and Malaria; she is also member of the Access and Product Management Advisory Committee (APMAC) of Medicines for Malaria Venture and Senior Follow for Results (R4D) for Development where she provides support to R4D programs in Guinea and Togo.

Her research activity is focused on Health System Strengthening, HIV, Malaria, Maternal and Child Health, Policy and Management in global health, Access to medicine in LMICs.

She had her work published in many international and national journals.

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Michela Bobini is Junior Lecturer at SDA Bocconi School of Management in the Government, Health and Not For Profit (GHNP) Division. She holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Management and a master's degree in Economics and Management of Government and International Organizations, both from Bocconi University.

She is currently a PhD student in Health System and Service Research at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Rome).

Her research interests mainly concern the topics of strategic management of health care organizations, design and digitization of health care services and environmental sustainability. She employs mainly qualitative and mixed research methods.

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Maria Cucciniello is Associate Professor of the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University. Before joining Bocconi, she was Associate Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Her main research interests include the effective use of information for policy communication, value creation, and innovation in the healthcare sector.

She is particularly interested in understanding how the delivery of information mediated through the use of information technologies, can improve citizens’ and patients’ engagement.

Many of her works consider the role played by information and communications technologies within public service organizations in the healthcare sector.

Her work is based on a variety of methodological (qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods) and scholarly traditions and is thus inherently interdisciplinary.

She is Associate Editor of Public Management Review and Senior Field Editor of the Journal of Public Policy.

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Gianmario Cinelli is Junior Lecturer of the Government, Health and Non-for-Profit (GHNP) Division at SDA Bocconi School of Management.

At CeRGAS he is member of the Observatory on Privately Financed Health Consumption (OCPS) and involved in national and international research and advisory projects. He holds a Master of Science in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University (Milan).

He is currently a PhD candidate in Management & Innovation at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan).

He is member of the Italian Forum on Inequality and Diversity. His research interests focus on organizational design and strategic management in healthcare organizations as well as health and social care policies. He employs mainly quantitative and mixed research methods.

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Francesca Casalini is Junior Lecturer of the Government, Health and Not-for-Profit (GHNP) Division at SDA Bocconi School of Management and PhD Candidate and Research Assistant in Systemic Governance at the University of St. Gallen.

Her research focuses on the dynamic field of public-private collaborations, specifically examining public-private partnerships and pioneering service delivery models that revolve around platforms in healthcare and social services.

She is also expert in social innovation and new entrepreneurial models with an impact on communities. Her proficiency mainly lies in qualitative and mixed method research methodologies.  

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Claudio Buongiorno Sottoriva is Knowledge Analyst at SDA Bocconi School of Management in the Government, Health and Not For Profit (GHNP) Division.

At CeRGAS he is involved in national and international research and advisory projects.He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Social Sciences and a master's degree in Economics and Management of Government and International Organizations, both from Bocconi University.

His research interests focus on the topics of public and health human resource management, public, social care and healthcare service design and digitalisation.