Davide
Mosca

Dr. Davide T. Mosca, is a medical doctor with forty years’ experience in global and migrant health, humanitarian response and emergencies, and a long professional practice at field level, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, first as a surgeon and emergency specialist, shifting later to public health. A former Director of Migration Health at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) – the UN Migration Agency – during his ten years tenure in the position he has contributed in advancing the global migration health agenda participating in the processes that led to the adoption of two World Health Assembly resolutions on migrant health (2008 and 2017) and with the organization of three WHO/IOM Global Consultations in Madrid (2010), Colombo (2017), Rabat (2023). Dr. Mosca has contributed as well in the mainstreaming of health aspects within the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2018), and the adoption of migration health policies at global level and in various countries. He has published several publications and studies, has contributed to several review panels and international commissions on migration health and global health issues, and has provided training, teaching, and lectures in migrant health world-wide. He was one of the Commissioners of the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health, and is a Consultant to WHO, IOM, and the UN Migration Network, and founder of the advocacy network Realizing Health SDGs for Migrants, Displaced and Communities. Dr. Mosca is contract professor with various Universities, an Honorary Associate Professor at the UCL Institute of Global Health, an affiliate with the Center for Humanitarian Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health., and is Policy Adviser with the Center for Health and Migration/Vienna.