Ravinetto Raffaella

Raffaella Ravinetto is a public health pharmacist and professor in pharmaceutical public health, currently serving as head of the Public Health Department at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp, Belgium. Overall, she has more than thirty-year experience in clinical research, humanitarian programmes, pharmaceutical policies and systems, and research ethics review. After significant experiences in the pharmaceutical private sector (1992-1999) and in humanitarian health programmes (1999-2006), she joined the ITM. Here, she held different roles: head of the Clinical Trials Unit (2006-2016), researcher and policy advisor in pharmaceutical public health (2017 to 2022), professor in pharmaceutical public health (2023 to date), and chair of the Institutional Review Board (2018 to date).

Her main areas of interest include pharmaceutical policies and equity in health, with a particular focus on the context of low- and middle-income countries; and research ethics, particularly in relation to resource-constrained settings and vulnerable populations.

She holds a University Master Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Torino, Italy; a Postgraduate Diploma in Tropical Medical Biology from the ITM; and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the KU Leuven, Belgium. She was a member of Medecins Sans Frontieres International Council (2007-2011). She is a recipient of the Helen-Clark-JoPPP Award for Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice Research; and an extraordinary professor at the School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, South Africa.