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Pubblicato il: 17/06/2025
The delegation from the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) at the University of Milan
Health cooperation and the mobility of students and instructors were the core focus of the visit of a delegation from the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) at the University of Milan. The delegation was made up of Salma Abdi Mahomud, Dean of the School of Health and Medical Sciences, Ramadhan Shaali Choum, Dean of the School of Dentistry, Fatma Hamid Saleh, lecturer and expert in tropical infectious diseases, and Mzee Omar Mzee and Saad Mwinyi Khamis, lecturers in Dentistry.
The delegation was welcomed by Paola Catenaccio, Vice Rector for Internationalisation, and Francesco Blasi, Vice Rector for Relations with the National Health Service and President of the Managing Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, who have expressed their interest and support in health cooperation.
Two members of SUZA delegation with Vice Rectors Paola Catenaccio and Francesco Blasi
Stefania Recalcati, professor of the Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health and Rector's Delegate for international health cooperation, explained: "Together with the State University of Zanzibar, the University of Milan has launched an Erasmus+KA171 three-year mobility programme in the fields of medicine and dentistry. SUZA is a young University, it was founded in 1999. The School of Health and Medical Sciences (SHMS) aims to train future health professionals, who are essential to our region; the School of Dentistry was founded in 2019 with the aim to launch a five-year degree programme in Dentistry.
This Erasmus+ project is designed to encourage not only teaching staff mobility from both unersities, but also student mobility, with a view to promoting intercultural awareness, enhancing the expertise of the academic community and addressing global health challenges together". Project coordinators are professor Stefania Recalcati for the area of medicine, and professors Claudia Dellavia and Daniela Carmagnola for the area of dentistry.
Topics discussed during the SUZA delegation visit included, above all, pathologies and therapies/interventions which are typical of the Zanzibar area, and therefore differ from the Italian ones.
Those seminars and meetings enabled professors and students of our Faculty of Medicine to acquire knowledge of pathologies which are uncommon in our society, and were also an opportunity for fruitful exchanges of ideas. Moreover, there were meetings with research groups of the University of Milan in specific areas of interest for SUZA (infectious diseases, gynaecology, neonatology, basic medical sciences, hygiene and dentistry) in order to discuss possible shared projects.
The delegation also visited some units of the most important University hospitals in Milan, such as "Vittore Buzzi" children's hospital, Policlinico of Milan, the Mangiagalli Clinic, Macedonio Melloni hospital and San Paolo hospital, to talk about different treatment approaches and patient care models.
Lastly, the delegation had the opportunity to visit the Centre for MultidisciplinAry ResearCh in Health Science (MACH) of the University of Milan, which is an international leader in global health and has had previous collaborations with SUZA. The next steps of this project will be to implement outgoing mobility of our teaching staff and bilateral mobility of students.
SUZA delegation in the central courtyard of the University of Milan
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Stefania Recalcati
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche per la Salute
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