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Raffaella Balocco Mattavelli PharmD
Head, INN Programme and Classifcation of medical products
World Health Organization
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Dr. Raffaella Balocco is a pharmacist Doctor and has a PhD in Pharmacology. She worked at the "Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Researches" in Milan before joining the World Health Organization. Until 2001 she has worked in the Drug Regulatory support Unit within WHO-HQ and travelled extensively all around the world, in particular in the Eastern Mediterranean and African Regions. Since 2001 she has been leading of the WHO International Nonproprietary Name (INN) Programme. In 2017 became responsible for the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Immunology in Lausanne and in 2019 for the WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology (ATC-DDD), in Oslo. In 2020 she has been appointed Head of the International Nonproprietary Names Programme (INN) and Classification of Medical Products Unit.. She is also member of several national and international drug nomenclature bodies. Dr Balocco is the founder and Steering Committee member of the School of INN. Over the years she has been lecturing in various universities all over the world the science of drug nomenclature.