MILAN (ITALPRESS) – Promote a culture of more conscious and participative prevention, enhancing the increasingly strategic role of technology and artificial intelligence in transforming clinical research, diagnosis, care and quality of people’s lives. This is the goal of Milan Health Week 2026, the European festival dedicated to health, prevention, innovation and artificial intelligence. From June 4th to 6th in the Portanuova district of Milan, the event will bring institutions, scientific communities, hospitals, companies and citizens into the heart of the city, with the aim of fostering dialogue between all actors of the health system and promoting an increasingly integrated approach between research and innovation.
An unusual format that transforms Piazza Gae Aulenti and the Portanuova district into an urban platform dedicated to prevention, innovation and well-being. Scientific research, dissemination, advanced technologies and immersive experiences meet in a space open to the public designed to bring people closer to a new culture of health.
For three days, the city center will become a space for meeting and comparing citizens, scientific communities, institutions and companies, bringing out of hospitals and research centers expertise, advanced technologies and some of the leading Italian specialists through consultations with specialists, dissemination activities, immersive experiences and moments dedicated to well-being and prevention.
Heart of the event will in fact be a large open-air village articulated in six thematic pavilions dedicated to female health, male health, neurology and mental health, gastroenterology and nutrition, oncological prevention and cardiometabolic metabolism. Among the activities planned: ultrasounds and pap tests with the LILT truck, spirometries, cognitive tests, cardiovascular evaluations and cardio-metabolic paths, as well as talks, workshops and meetings with specialists dedicated to prevention, early diagnosis, mental wellness, patient support and quality of life.
From Thursday 4th to Saturday 6th June, from 9am to 8pm, the Milano Health Week in Portanuova will offer a concrete look on the evolution of artificial intelligence applied to medicine, through demonstrations, innovative technologies and applications already used in the different areas of prevention and clinical practice.
In addition, special initiatives and moments dedicated to well-being, prevention and quality of life will be added to the exhibition. The “Technogym Group Cycle Class”, an outdoor cycling experience by Technogym that will combine music, rhythm and energy in a collective session dedicated to well-being, movement and training, on Thursday 4th June at 13.00 in Piazza Gae Aulenti. To close the three days will be the “Cancer Survivor Day” promoted by LILT, scheduled on Saturday 6 June from 18.00 to 20.00 in a dedicated area of the Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano.
“Innovation, technology and artificial intelligence are helping to change the way we predict, diagnose and cure diseases – says Victor Savevski, President of ESAIH (European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Health). It is important to accompany this transformation with a clear, scientific and responsible public dialogue, to help citizens, patients and professionals understand their opportunities, limits and correct methods of use. AI can offer new skills to medicine, but to generate real value must be developed, validated and adopted with clinical competence, security, transparency, responsibility and scientific evidence, in full respect of patients, citizens and the role of health professionals. Milan Health Week is born to promote this comparison, making innovation more understandable, concrete and orto the person.”
For the city of Milan, the first edition of the Milan Health Week in Portanuova is an opportunity to bring the theme of prevention and well-being increasingly close to the everyday life of people, transforming one of the places symbol of the city into an open space of information, awareness and participation. As Lamberto Bertolè underlines, Councillor for the Welfare and Health of the City of Milan: “Building opportunities for information and listening close to the places where people live and work is a duty that every community has towards its citizens and its own towns, especially on a delicate and crucial theme such as that of health. Milan Health Week is also an opportunity to promote a culture of prevention that promotes correct and conscious choices, with a curious look and interested in new technologies that can improve people’s lives or make it better even through the disease.”
The Milano Health Week in Portanuova also highlights the role of Lombardy as a national and European point of reference in the fields of health, research and innovation, promoting a model of collaboration between institutions, healthcare, scientific communities and enterprises oriented to make prevention increasingly accessible, evolved and close to citizens. To highlight this aspect is Emanuele Monti, President of the Commission Welfare di Regione Lombardia: “Luxembourg is one of the most advanced ecosystems in Europe in the fields of health, clinical research and technological innovation applied to medicine. Events such as the Milan Health Week contribute to strengthening this position, creating concrete opportunities for dialogue and collaboration between institutions, healthcare, scientific communities, enterprises and citizens. Today more than ever, it is essential to promote a culture of increasingly conscious prevention, supported by research, innovation and new technologies, always keeping the value of the person and the quality of care central”.
“Normanology is one of the areas of medicine in which research is changing the future of diagnosis, prevention and care more quickly – explains Massimo Filippi, director of the Neurology Unit, of the Neurophysiology Service, of the Neuroriabilitation Unit of the IRCCCS Hospital San Raffaele and ordinary Neurology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. Today we have increasingly advanced tools to understand complex diseases such as Alzheimer, multiple sclerosis and migraine, but also to promote brain health through correct lifestyles, physical activity and early prevention. The Milan Health Week is an important opportunity to bring these issues out of hospitals and research laboratories, creating a direct dialogue with citizenship.” “According to the World Health Organization, about 4 out of 10 cancers could be avoided by adopting correct lifestyles – concludes Armando Santoro, director of Cancer Center at the Irccs Humanitas Clinical Institute –. Starting with this, we organized the activities of the Milan Health Week with consultations and meetings dedicated to the prevention and importance of screening. We will talk about nutrition, smoking, sun exposure, physical activity and vaccinations, central issues to reduce cancer risk. It also provides opportunities for research, new medicines and technologies that are helping to make care paths more effective and personalized.”.
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