ANNOUNCEMENT
Healthspan Action Coalition and Leading Italian Organizations Announce Global Collaboration
The partnership connects leaders in science, medicine, prevention, philanthropy, public policy, and civic engagement.
One Milestone Boston, MA - Harvard Enterprise Research Campus the site of the 2026 Translational Longevity Summit
FEATURED PARTNERS
Healthspan Action Coalition
An international coalition advancing policies, scientific understanding, public engagement, and cross-sector collaboration to help people live longer, healthier lives.
Fondazione Bicocca
A foundation supporting research, education, innovation, academic engagement, and public-benefit initiatives, including proactive healthspan extension.
Italian Sources for Healthspan and Saturnia
A medical-spa and healthy-longevity model combining thermal wellness heritage with contemporary research, preventive medicine, and innovation.
Palazzo Fiuggi
A medical-wellness destination integrating personalized care, evidence-based medicine, nutrition, biomechanics, wellness protocols, and Fiuggi’s therapeutic-water heritage.
Columbus Clinic Center
A Milan-based Humanitas group hospital advancing predictive diagnostics and personalized prevention through Columbus Circle and a dedicated healthspan department.
Tennis & Friends – Salute e Sport
A community prevention initiative that uses sport, free medical screenings, specialist consultations, and public engagement to promote healthier lives.
Women Economic Forum Italy
Part of the international Women Economic Forum network, promoting women’s leadership, entrepreneurship, partnerships, and inclusive social and economic progress.
BrainCircle Italy
An organization promoting exchange among leaders and communities working at the intersection of knowledge, innovation, culture, and societal development.
AEON Foundation
A foundation supporting dialogue and collaboration around human flourishing, healthy longevity, innovation, societal well-being, and evidence-based policy.
The Cure Alliance
A foundation supporting cure-focused research and disease-prevention initiatives that extend physical, mental, and cognitive health and reduce the burden of unhealthy aging
Camillo Ricordi, MD - Chief Scientific Officer
Healthspan Action Coalition
TO BE ANNOUNCED AT THE TRANSLATIONAL LONGEVITY SUMMIT EVENT in Boston, Massachusetts - Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at One Milestone | Harvard Enterprise Research Campus
Building a Global Platform for Prevention, Research, Education, Policy and Practical Action
Thea announcement will be on October 7 ,2026 - The collaboration is designed to move health systems beyond a model focused primarily on treating disease after it appears. Instead, it supports earlier risk detection, preventive strategies, personalized care, regenerative medicine, public education, and policies that help preserve function throughout life. This partnership creates a bridge between Italy’s scientific, clinical, cultural, and civic strengths and HSAC’s international coalition-building and advocacy work.
HEALTHSPAN
Extend Healthy, Independent Living
The collaboration focuses on helping people gain more years in good health—not simply more years of life. Its long-term vision includes protecting physical capability, mental well-being, cognitive function, and independence as people age.
PREVENTION
Act Earlier, Before Disease Advances
Healthspan depends on shifting attention upstream. Earlier detection, predictive diagnostics, personalized prevention, and education can help identify risks before they progress into chronic disease, disability, or loss of function.
GLOBAL CONNECTION
Link Knowledge With Action
The partnership brings together researchers, clinicians, foundations, universities, patient advocates, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and community leaders to turn knowledge into meaningful action.
SHARED GLOBAL AGENDA
Healthy longevity is one of the defining scientific, social, and economic challenges of our time. It affects how families care for loved ones, how health systems allocate resources, how communities support older adults, and how countries sustain active and productive populations. The answer cannot come from a single laboratory, hospital, government office, or wellness program. It requires collaboration across disciplines and sectors
A combination of science and clinical care, academic research and public education, data and policy, prevention and treatment, community engagement and institutional leadership.
From Scientific Discovery to Real-World Impact
Achieving that future will require scientific discovery, clinical innovation, prevention, policy leadership, public education, and sustained collaboration across national borders. It will require health systems that act before disease becomes crisis, communities that make prevention accessible, and institutions willing to work together around shared long-term goals.
- International forums, conference programming, and expert exchanges on healthy aging, longevity science, regenerative medicine, and prevention.
- Public education initiatives that make evidence-based healthspan information understandable, useful, and accessible.
- New connections among researchers, clinicians, universities, foundations, policymakers, patient advocates, and responsible innovators.
- Dialogue on policies, investments, and health-system strategies that support prevention, functional independence, and equitable access to emerging advances.
- Opportunities to elevate women’s leadership, intergenerational engagement, and cross-sector participation in shaping the future of health.
- Practical approaches that address the underlying drivers of chronic illness, frailty, and declining function across the lifespan.
LEADERSHIP PERSPECTIVES
Camillo Ricordi, MD,
Chief Scientific Officer,
Healthspan Action Coalition
“The science is moving rapidly toward a new paradigm: intervening earlier to identify invisible risk factors years before they progress toward disease, preserving function and preventing chronic illness”
Giovanna Iannantuoni,
President, Fondazione Bicocca
“Our overarching mission requires collaboration across disciplines, institutions, and national borders. This initiative brings scientific excellence together with public leadership, education, and implementation.”
Marilena Citelli Francese,
President of Women Economic Forum Italy
and BrainCircle Italy
“This collaboration brings together organizations that recognize healthspan as one of the defining human, scientific, and economic challenges of our time.”
Paolo Cremascoli,
Board Member of Columbus Clinic
Center in Milan
“Our model shows how a dedicated healthspan departments can bring predictive diagnostics and personalized prevention into an evidence-based clinical setting, part of Italy’s leading hospital group, Humanitas.”
Massimo Caputi,
President of Italian Sources for Healthspan
and Saturnia Healthy Longevity
“An evolution of Italy’s unique thermal heritage, our model brings a millennia-old culture of thermal wellbeing together with contemporary scientific research and medical innovation”
Magno Cristiani,
Managing Director of
Palazzo Fiuggi
“We combine a solid medical foundation, advanced biomechanics technology, the unique heritage of Fiuggi’s healing waters, first-class hospitality and Michelin-starred Italian cuisine to promote healthy longevity”
Nicola Marino,
Founder and Director of
AEON Foundation
“To achieve this, we must actively involve researchers, industry, and institutional stakeholders. We believe in evidence-based policies and in spreading the healthy longevity message”
Giorgio Meneschincheri, MD,
President of Tennis & Friends
“Tennis & Friends has brought prevention out of the hospital and into the places where people gather, using sport, community and free medical screenings to reach citizens who might never otherwise get checked”
Shelley Ross,
President of The Cure Alliance
“This iss an initiative of global significance — one that can strengthen international dialogue, inspire public engagement, and help translate knowledge into meaningful action”
Bernard Siegel
Executive Director,
Healthspan Action Coalition
“Healthspan is not simply a biomedical issue; it is a societal imperative with profound implications for families, health systems, workforce participation, equity, and economic resilience.”
Building a Healthier Future, Together
Science. Prevention. Collaboration. Healthier, Longer Lives.
The Healthspan Action Coalition and its Italian partners invite researchers, clinicians, policymakers, advocates, foundations, innovators, and community leaders to join the conversation and help advance a future of healthier longevity for all.
The Bicocca Pavilion, Milan Italy - a multifunctional innovation hub connecting the University of Milan-Bicocca with private companies to support social impact start-ups and research.