Walter Ricciardi, former president of the Higher Institute of Health (Iss) and now consultant to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, has been appointed a member of the Scientific Committee of Santé Publique France, the French ISS. The physicist Giorgio Parisi, president of the Accademia dei Lincei, congratulated him on Twitter: “An international recognition of his skills and Italian public health and also the beginning of a greater European coordination”.