President of the World Federation of Public Health Associations.

He is also President, Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Prof. Ricciardi is Scientific Advisor to the Italian Minister of Health for the coronavirus pandemic and he is Scientific Director of Istituti Clinici Scientifici (ICS) Salvatore Maugeri. President of the Mission Board for Cancer of the European Commission and Coordinator of the Scientific Advisory Board of Human Technopole Foundation.