The Jefferson Italy Center is the culmination of decades of collaborations between Jefferson and Italy, providing a formal structure to identify, organize, coordinate, and promote strategic partnerships between Jefferson and Italian institutions that maximize our collective impact on individual and population health.

It’s a powerful catalyst for innovation, improving countless lives by promoting Jefferson’s core values on the global stage: put people first, be bold and think differently, and do the right thing.

By advancing the concept of distance learning and team innovation through bilateral faculty and student exchanges, the Jefferson Italy Center provides future leaders in medicine, fashion, and business the global perspective necessary to thrive in an ever-changing healthcare landscape and global marketplace.

Global healthcare needs are changing at a rapid clip. The Jefferson Italy Center provides the framework necessary to keep pace, empowering public-private partnerships that address the social determinants of health, health disparities, and access to care both in Italy and Philadelphia.

The Jefferson Italy Center promotes entrepreneurial research opportunities and collaborations between Jefferson and our Italian partners that harness knowledge from basic sciences to rapidly produce new drugs, devices, and treatment options for patients worldwide.

Endowed professorships make Jefferson an attractive destination for the best physicians, researchers, and educators in the world, markedly strengthening our ability to recruit and retain the best and brightest minds in healthcare and higher education. 

They recognize the holder who has earned the distinction and the benefactor who made the professorship possible—now and in perpetuity.

In the increasingly global healthcare landscape, philanthropy plays a key role in attracting the best and brightest physicians-in-training to Jefferson. 

By establishing an endowed fellowship, you create a life-changing opportunity for young professionals around the world to gain the skills and experience necessary to become leaders in the field.

Scholarships allow us to offer financial assistance to top students with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and interests, ensuring that financial barriers will not deter applicants from pursuing a Jefferson education.

Benefactors who establish scholarships have a lasting impact on today’s students, helping them to become future professionals capable of applying their unique skills and perspectives to effect positive change around the world.

All treatments that are now standard of care were once considered cutting edge, and all began with trailblazing researchers brave enough to explore frontiers that others had not even imagined.

At a time when these proof-of-concept studies go unfunded through traditional government and industry sources, philanthropy is a vital source of support for our visionary physicians and scientists.

Visiting Scholars invited to Jefferson are given the freedom to pursue intellectual inquiry while engaging members of the campus community in exploration on the frontiers of a particular field or constellation of ideas.

While pursuing their study, scholars give invited talks to students, consult and partner with faculty on research, perhaps teach an honors seminar, and sometimes present public lectures.