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Institute for Global Health Emergencies Response

(IGHER)

The Institute for Global Health Emergencies Response (IGHER)
has been established with Decision of 19 November 2021, and
it has its seat at the EPLO Headquarters in Rome. The aim of
IGHER is to promote the research, development of studies,
opinions, education and training in the field of health
emergencies of a global or multinational dimension.
The Director of IGHER is Matteo Gnes, full Professor of
Administrative Law and Deputy Dean of the Law Department of the University of Urbino Carlo Bo (Italy).

The field of interest of the IGHER includes the study and research of situations characterized as global and/or
international health emergencies with the aim to identify the instruments to be used for their management, the
models of public communication, the best practices used both at legislative and administrative level.

The members of the Advisory Council are: Antonio Bartolini, full Professor of Administrative Law, University of
Perugia, Italy, Martina Conticelli, full Professor of Administrative Law, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy,
Yiannis Drossos, Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law, Law School of Athens University, Greece, Pascale
Gonod, full Professor of Public Law, Sorbonne Law School, University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne, France,
Sanja Krestalica, Assistant Professor in Public International Law and EU law at the Faculty of Law, The University
of East Sarajevo, Bosnia-Erzegovina, Elisenda Malaret García, full Professor of Administrative law, Universidad de
Barcelona, Spain, Elisa Scotti, full professor, Administrative Law, University of Macerata, Italy, and Director of the
Master in Administrative sciences and Innovation in public administration of the Universities of Urbino and
Macerata.

Publication editing: Journal “Legal Policy Pandemics”

In 2022, IGHER cooperated with the Global pandemic Network
– GPN in editing Volume 2, Issue 1 of the Journal “Legal Policy
Pandemics”, where the reports of the Fourth Global Webinar of
GPN, held on 7 June 2022, on the topic of “Health Care Systems
facing COVID-19” have been published.

International Conference on the Emergency Powers in light of the COVID-19 Pandemic
25 October 2022

On 25 October 2022, the Director
of IGHER, Professor Matteo
Gnes, participated, together with
the Director of EPLO, Professor
Spyridon Flogaitis, to the
international conference on
“Emergency powers in the light
of the Covid-19 pandemic and
other global crisis”, organized by
Miskolc University and Ferenc
Mádl Institute of Comparative
Law, in Miskolc (Hungary).

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