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General Practitioners and Migration Medicine – CME training course

The CME training course “The General Practitioner and Migration Medicine” will be held on Saturday 18 February and 3 March 2012 at the NIHMP headquarters in Rome. Millions of people with different skin colours, cultures, traditions and health-related conceptions are continuously moving across the world. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines as migrants... Read more

The Italian Minister of Health, Prof. Renato Balduzzi, and Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia at the lunch with the homeless at the NIHMP

On December 20, 2011, the Italian Minister of Health, Renato Balduzzi, the Bishop of Terni, Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia, the representative of the Regione Puglia councillor, Franco Bux, and the NIHMP Director General, Concetta Mirisola, received more than 50 homeless people as well as regular and irregular migrants to share a... Read more


The Italian Minister of Health, Renato Balduzzi, participated in the NIHMP Christmas lunch with the homeless

On December 20, 2011, the Italian Minister of Health, Renato Balduzzi, the Bishop of Terni, Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia, and the NIHMP Director General, Concetta Mirisola, shared a Christmas lunch with the homeless at the National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty (NIHMP). Since many years, the NIHMP is committed with... Read more

Transcultural intervention guidelines for basic health and mother and child assistance

The training course organised by the NIHMP in the framework of the project “Transcultural intervention guidelines for basic health and mother and child assistance” was held on 13 and 14 December  2011 in Lamezia Terme (CZ), at the “Giovanni Paolo II” hospital. THE PROJECT The general objective of the project... Read more


Impoverishment and Poverty. Life experiences and services in Rome and Turin

Data on impoverishment and poverty are important for describing a situation, but they are more and more perceived as a partial interpretation of that social, psychological, political, cultural and economic precariousness that causes vulnerability.In this publication, service operators looked for what is behind indexes and thresholds and which everyday experiences... Read more

Diritto all’acqua, diritto alla vita (Right to Water, Right to Life)

Diritto all’acqua, diritto alla vita (Right to Water, Right to Life) Edited by Aldo Morrone - GSE Edizioni(Publication in Italian) Excerpt from the introduction by Aldo Morrone (...) strange enough, water is the most common natural element on the Earth but it is so exploited for strategic, economic and power... Read more


Pan-European Conference on the Integration of Immigrants "Good practices in the sectors of Health, Welfare and Social Security"

The Pan-European Conference on the Integration of Immigrants "Good practices in the sectors of Health, Welfare and Social Security", was held on 27-28 June 2011, in Athens. The event was financed by the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals – GREECE, through the Greek Ministry of Interior,... Read more

Closing conference of the project for promoting integration at the moment of implementing the procedures to obtain a stay permit – Photo gallery of the event

The closing conference of the project “Percorso di integrazione all’atto della richiesta del permesso di soggiorno e della convocazione presso lo sportello” for promoting integration at the moment of implementing the procedures to obtain a stay permit was held on June 24th at the NIHMP. The event saw the participation... Read more