Prof. Claudio Colosio, Associate Prof. of Occupational Health, Scientific Coordinator of the International Centre for Rural Health, WHO Collaborating Centre, and of the Public Health Working Group of the DISS. His main field of interest are Rural Occupational Health, pesticides, diagnosis and prevention of occupational diseases. He has participated in several international collaborative projects, in two cases as coordinator: Safefoodnet and Tempus-Central Asian Network for Education, Research and Innovation in Environmental Health (CANERIEH). It is particularly important, in light of the coordination capacities needed in this project, the experience gained in the coordination of CANERIEH, carried out in Central Asia with most of the partners involved in this application. He has an intense teaching activity, has tutored more than 50 bachelor and master degree thesis and more than 10 PhD programmes, in three cases with international students. He has authored or co-authored 100 publications on peer reviewed scientific journals, 20 book chapters and more than 200 presentations in international Congresses (15 as invited speaker). He is Secretary of the Scientific Committee on Rural Health of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) and Vice President, International Association of Agricultural Medicine & Rural Health