This curriculum, in addition to the research activities previously reported for all curricula, is characterized by the direct involvement of doctoral students in cooperation projects in the South of the world in order to implement, validate and disseminate appropriate solutions/technologies for improving the health of environment and man. In this phase, which is spread over the three years of the Doctorate with a greater weight in the second and third year, the Doctoral Students spend a period in the field at research institutes/universities, Non-Governmental Organizations, other public and private bodies involved in project activities. The main research topics of interest are reported below.
Technological address: (i) Environmental issues in resource-limited contexts; (ii) Environmental problems in emergency situations; (iii) Appropriate technologies for the solution of environmental problems related to the management of drinking water, waste water, waste and the energy recoverable from them.
Health address: (i) Determinants of health and disease in resource-limited contexts; (ii) Primary Health Care Strategy; (iii) Health systems in resource-limited countries; (iv) Integrated healthcare projects; (v) The major infectious endemics (HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, parasitic endemics); (vi) Maternal and child health; (vii) Malnutrition and malnutrition.