MedCom Forum in Healthcare was launched in 2021 with the aim of defining and developing a network of infectious disease specialists, microbiologists and zootechnical institutes from countries belonging to the Mediterranean area. In the first edition, the major critical issues and opportunities inherent to border realities were addressed, illustrating the epidemiological situation of the different reference areas.
The following event, organized in May 2023, focused on the comparison between the organizational models for the management of transmissible diseases applied in the countries present at the event. From the debate, a summary proposal emerged, dictated by the need to be able to intervene in a timely manner in epidemic crises and to share the status of endemic situations in real time, in order to be able to operate in a coordinated and effective manner in the Mediterranean area. The participating countries were Italy, Albania, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia and Jordan. Among the speakers also the directors of communicable diseases departments and key figures of the respective Ministries of Health.