The Global Health’s hub aims in promoting activities and collaborations among the members of the UNITA alliance. Global health is by definition a global or hollistic approach on health issues including diseases, nutrition and food security, environmental health, health inequity, mental health, and more.
The core competences of the hub are life sciences (medicine, biology, engineering), chemistry, psychology, sport science, economy and law.
The applications cover all types of treatment and therapy of health issues, prevention means, and also the access to treatments and prevention and the cause of the health issues.
Mental health
Health Inequity
Food security and nutrition
Communicable diseases
Environmental health/
One health
Non communicable diseases
Cancer
Neurological conditions
Cardiovascular disease
Diabetes
Chronic respiratory disease
Obesity and unhealthy lifestyle
Leadership
Haute Ecole Spécialisée
de Suisse Occidentale (HES-SO)
Università degli Studi
di Brescia (UNIBS)
Number of people participating
in hub activities
Cartography: 264 projects
86 participants to the matching events
24 starting grants projects presented
Core competence
Life sciences, chemistry, psychology, sport science, veterinary, economy and law.
Main project for 2025-2026
Structure the hub activity
Matching event & Starting grants
Cellular and Molecular Human and Veterinary Medicine
9 projects funded
- Unfolding Non-Invasive Treatment Advances Against Pain (UNITA-AP) – Validation of novel peptides and their non invasive delivery strategies.
- NeuroUnita – a transdisciplinary Neuroscience platform of the Unita alliance.
- Redefining Micro- and Nano-Plastics (MNP) as Active Disruptors of Gut–Liver Barriers and Vectors of Microbial Translocation in Global Health.
- Veterinary Cell Therapies in a One Health World (VetCellOH).
- MOSAICOH – Mining soil microorganisms for antimicrobial discovery within a One Health approach.
- Targeting insect cytochrome P450 with natural inhibitors: a green strategy for malaria and other vector-borne disease control as a global health challenge.
- REVA: Repurposing drugs to trEat Vaginal yeast: search for new Antimycotics.
- “MINERVA: Micro/Nanoplastics Exposure and Reproductive Vulnerability Assessment in Ruminants – A Pilot Study with True-to-Life Particles”.
- Disrupting Immune-Metabolic Crosstalk in Cancer via Dual Targeting of TLR2 and xCT.
Mental and Physical Health, Wellbeing, and Prevention Medicine in Humans and Animals
8 projects funded
- Modulation of Energy Metabolism by treatments and Exercise in Cancer, Obesity, Inmunological blood diseases, and Hemoglobinopathies.
- Toward a UNITA Student Health Observatory (U-SHO).
- EMPOWER.
- Advancing Knowledge to Promote Health Equity across the UNITA Alliance (AKHE-UNITA).
- Spreading global health citizen science research methodologies for UNITA (SPHERE).
- ROOTS Rural Opportunities for Ongoing physical activity through Theory-based Strategies.
- HEALPS (Health & Environment in the Alps). OneHealth Mountains – Building a Multidisciplinary Network for Sustainable Mountain Futures.
- Lifestyle Behaviours, Mental and Physical Health, and Oral Health in Students and Migrants living in Mountain Areas: a Preventive Medicine Perspective.