ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The Science Calling event took place today in Rome: science for all in a podcast, editorial project conducted by Myrta Merlino and articulated in an eight-point cycle, available today on Spotify, Apple Podcast and Amazon Music. The initiative, realized with the non-conditional contribution of AbbVie Italia, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Italia, Amgen Italia, Incyte Italia, Bayer Italia, Argenx Italia, Fondazione MSD and Vantive Italia, brought together representatives of institutions, the world of research, industry and communication for a shared reflection on the role of scientific research in public health and the ability of the country to translate knowledge into concrete benefits for people. During the day it emerged as research directly affects the quality of care, where knowledge and clinical practice meet. It is in this space that the impact becomes measurable, on health outcomes and the trajectory of diseases, and where the ability to tell the research correctly contributes to making it understandable the value even outside the specialized contexts. In the context of institutional interventions that opened the event Elena Murelli, Member 10^ Commission of the Senate of the Republic, recalled this direct link between research and public health “research affects people’s lives because it translates into timely diagnosis, more appropriate clinical choices, more solid treatment paths. Protection of research means strengthening the ability of the health system to respond to the increasing complexity of the care system.” Alongside the clinical dimension, the meeting also highlighted the structural nature of investments in research, which is an enabling factor for the seal and evolution of the system over time. The possibility of building solid scientific results depends on the continuity of investments, the valorisation of skills and the ability to create stable conditions for those who do research. On this aspect, on Sunday Castellone, Vice President of the Senate of the Republic, underlined that “the research should be sustained over time, because the results do not arise suddenly but are the result of design, experimentation, attempts and also failures. Investing in research means investing in people, skills and credibility of the country, creating conditions to make Italy a reliable context for scientific innovation”. Inside this frame is Science Calling, designed as a continuous deepening space. The podcast crosses eight areas of medicine and contemporary innovation: from the role of researchers as producers of knowledge, oncology and development of treatment paths; from inflammatory and autoimmune pathologies to nephrology; to cardiology, aesthetic medicine and neuroscience, reaching a final reflection on the value of research as a cultural, economic and health investment for the country. Myrta Merlino, who during the event illustrated the editorial sense of the project «Science Calling arises from the need to bring research back to the centre of public speech, subtracting it from simplification and restoring time and space. To tell science means to show how it takes shape, how it crosses different areas and how it affects, often silently, the life of people”. In the episodes, research emerges for what is in its daily practice: a collective work that holds together clinical skills, technologies and decision-making skills. A process made of verifications, adjustments and choices that layer over time and guide the evolution of care towards models more adherent to the needs of people. Episode after episode, Science Calling proposes a reading of research as an invisible but decisive infrastructure: when it comescontinuously supported, it becomes the ability of the system to build future in its more concrete form, made of health, more solid paths and time gained for people. -photo press office Esperia Advocacy –(ITALPRESS).
