Inaugurated on December 4, 2022 at Pavia with the support of the funds of the PNRR, the consortium provides strong cross-disciplinary skills to address the issue of possible epidemics by integrating aspects of human health, animal health and the environment. Climate and environmental changes underlying changes in wildlife and human interactions, spillover phenomena, epidemic events and numerous other aspects will be analyzed to identify the main current threats and those that may emerge in the future. “The INF-ACT project”, Stefano Merler said, “represents a unique opportunity to systematize the best Italian competencies for the study of emerging infectious diseases. Based on a One Health approach, which seeks to consider all aspects of an extremely complex problem such as the one related to the transmission of infectious diseases, the project will provide the country with new knowledge and tools, with the hope of improving the ability to respond to future epidemic emergencies”…